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Managing the device
Overview
Device management includes monitoring the operating status of devices and configuring their running
parameters.
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>.
To configure the device name:
Step Command
Remarks
1.
Enter system view.
system-view
N/A
2.
Configure the device name.
sysname
sysname
The default device name is the
device model name.
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. For NTP configuration, see
Network Management and Monitoring Configuration Guide.
In a small-sized network, you can manually set the system time of each device.
IMPORTANT:
If you reboot the device, the system time and date are restored to the factory default. To ensure an
accurate system time setting, you must change the system time and date or configure NTP for the
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
). 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.
