Previously I wrote about setting the NTP, time and timezone settings in a Cisco switch and now it’s time for the same in a Brocade switch.
It’s in fact not that hard to do. Log in to the CLI and use the following commands:
tsclockserver 1.2.3.4
or
tsclockserver ntp.domain.ext (make sure the DNS is set up properly first)
This will set the NTP server address in this switch to ip address 1.2.3.4. Set this only on the principal switch, as this switch will propagate the time to the other switches in the fabric.
To set the timezone use the following command:
tstimezone –interactive
(please note that there’s a double “-” before “interactive”)
This will ask for the region and country the switch is located in.
Choose 8 for Europe and 34 for the Netherlands and after verifying the setting, choose 1 (yes) to set the TZ.
Use the “date” command to verify the current time and date and TZ region:
Wed May 13 01:08:32 CEST 2015
This makes life a lot easier when troubleshooting!
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