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How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

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  • 1.  How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    Posted Feb 22, 2012 10:27 AM

    Hi,

     

    I want to change the time setting of the controller ( only hours and minutes ). but  when i try to change in the command-line   controller says, "controller will restart after applying setting" .

     

    How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?  

     

    thanks,

     

    Omer.

     



  • 2.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?
    Best Answer

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Feb 22, 2012 10:34 AM

    Just don't reboot.

     



  • 3.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    Posted Feb 22, 2012 10:37 AM
    @byactivex wrote:

    Hi,

     

    I want to change the time setting of the controller ( only hours and minutes ). but  when i try to change in the command-line   controller says, "controller will restart after applying setting" .

     

    How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?  

     

    thanks,

     

    Omer.

     

    Omer, 

     

    Changing the clock setting requires a reboot, but it wont automatically reboot the controller after setting the clock. You may reboot the controller during your maintenance window. 

     

    # show clock

    Wed Feb 22 07:30:47 PST 2012

    #clock set 2012 february 22 07 35 45
    WARNING:Changing the system clock will require a reboot of the controller.

    Are you sure you want to continue(y/n): y
    Switch Real Time Clock is changed. The controller must be rebooted now.

    # show clock

    Wed Feb 22 07:35:46 PST 2012



  • 4.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    Posted Jul 28, 2015 12:43 PM

    i was anticipating reboot however all that i got after hitting "y" to accept the setting was just a logout from gui and i had to authenticate on my wirelessly connected laptop, even my ssh session stayed up. looks like it is just a internal process restart not actual reboot.



  • 5.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?
    Best Answer

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jul 28, 2015 12:53 PM

    EXCEPT - That the times that all of your users are connected will be skewed (user time is calculated as the difference between when they first connected and the current time) .  If that is not important to you, or conflicting logs registering the wrong times, you should not have a problem.



  • 6.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    Posted Mar 17, 2016 10:06 PM

    So, does it actually require a reboot though? I see that changing the time gives the warning, and we hit y and the clock is changed. Is that it? Are we done, or is a full reboot really necessary and why?

     

    Mike



  • 7.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Mar 17, 2016 10:37 PM

    Please see my comment above...



  • 8.  RE: How can i do change the time setting of the controller without rebooting ?

    Posted Mar 22, 2016 12:27 AM

    It is probably a good practice to reboot the controller if you have changed the time.  In the early days, I have observed client authentication affected if the time delta is large.  

     

    Just schedule a maintenance windows and reboot the controller. 

     

     -michael