Cisco Systems IE 2000 Configuring a System Name, Setting Up DNS

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Cisco IE 2000 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 7 Performing Switch Administration
How to Perform Switch Administration
Configuring Summer Time (Exact Date and Time)
To configure summer time when it does not follow a recurring pattern (configure the exact date and time
of the next summer time events), perform this task:
Configuring a System Name
Setting Up DNS
If you use the switch IP address as its hostname, the IP addres s is used and no DNS query occurs. If you
configure a hostname that contains no periods (.), a period followed by the default domain name is
appended to the hostname before the DNS query is made to map the name to an IP address. The default
domain name is the value set by the ip domain-name global configuration command. If ther e is a
period (.) in the hostname, the Cisco IOS software looks up the IP address without appending any default
domain name to the hostname.
Command Purpose
Step 1 configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2 clock summer-time zone date [month
date year hh:mm month date year hh:mm
[offset]]
or
clock summer-time zone date [date
month year hh:mm date month year
hh:mm [offset]]
Configures summer time to start on the first date and end on the second
date.
Summer time is disabled by default.
• zone—Specifies the name of the time zone (for example, PDT) to be
displayed when summer time is in effect.
• (Optional) week—Specifies the week of the month (1 to 5 or last).
• (Optional) day—Specifies the day of the week (Sunday, Monday...).
• (Optional) month—Specifies the month (January, February...).
• (Optional) hh:mm—Specifies the time (24-hour format) in hours and
minutes.
• (Optional) offset—Specifies the number of minutes to add during
summer time. The default is 60.
Step 3 end Returns to privileged EXEC mode.
Command Purpose
Step 1 configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2 hostname name Manually configures a system name.
The default setting is switch.
The name must follow the rules for ARPANET hostnames. They must start
with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only
letters, digits, and hyphens. Names can be up to 63 charact ers.
Step 3 end Returns to privileged EXEC mode.