Device management

Device management includes monitoring the operating status of devices and configuring their running parameters.

NOTE:

The configuration tasks in this document are order independent. You can perform these tasks in any order.

Configuring the device name

A device name identifies a device in a network and works as the user view prompt at the CLI. For example, if the device name is Sysname, the user view prompt is <Sysname>.

Follow these steps to configure the device name:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

—

 

 

 

Configure the device name

sysname sysname

Optional

The default device name is HP.

 

 

 

 

 

Changing the system time

You must synchronize your device with a trusted time source by using NTP or changing the system time before you run it on the network. Network management depends on an accurate system time setting, because the timestamps of system messages and logs use the system time.

In a small-sized network, you can manually set the system time of each device.

Configuration guidelines

You can change the system time by configuring the relative time, time zone, and daylight saving time. The configuration result depends on their configuration order (see Table 11). In the first column of this table, 1 represents the clock datetime command, 2 represents the clock timezone command, and 3 represents the clock summer-time command. To verify the system time setting, use the display clock command. This table assumes that the original system time is 2005/1/1 1:00:00.

Table 11 System time configuration results

Command

Effective system time

Configuration example

System time

1

date-time

clock

datetime 1:00

01:00:00 UTC Mon

 

 

2007/1/1

01/01/2007

2

Original system time ±

clock

timezone

02:00:00 zone-time Sat

 

zone-offset

zone-time add 1

01/01/2005

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