MSA 2040 SMU Reference Guide

46 Configuring the system
Configuring system settings
Changing the system date and time
You can enter values manually for the system date and time, or you can set the system to use NTP as explained in
"About the system date and time" (page 29).
To use manual date and time settings
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the system and select Configuration > System Settings > Date, Time.
The date and time options appear.
2. Set the options:
• Time. Enter the time in the format hh:mm:ss, where hh is the hour (0–23), mm is the minutes (0–59), and ss is
the seconds (0–59).
• Month. Select the month.
• Day. Enter the day number.
• Year. Enter the year using four digits.
• Network Time Protocol (NTP). Select Disabled.
3. Click Apply.
To obtain the date and time from an NTP server
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the system and select Configuration > System Settings > Date, Time.
The date and time options appear.
2. Set the options:
• Network Time Protocol (NTP). Select Enabled.
• NTP Time Zone Offset. Optional. The system’s time zone as an offset in hours (-12 through +14) and optionally
minutes (0–59) from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). To specify a positive offset, the '+' is optional; to
specify a negative offset, the '-' is required. The hour value can have one or two digits and can omit a leading
zero. If the minutes value is specified it must have two digits; if it is omitted, the minutes value is set to 00.
• NTP Server Address. Optional. If the system should retrieve time values from a specific NTP server, enter the
address of an NTP server. If no IP server address is set, the system listens for time messages sent by an NTP
server in broadcast mode.
3. Click Apply.
Changing host interface settings
To enable the system to communicate with hosts or with remote systems having FC or iSCSI interfaces, you must
configure host-interface options. For SAS ports there are no host-interface options.
MSA 2040 SAN host ports can be configured as FC or iSCSI ports. FC ports support use of qualified 8-Gbit/s or
16-Gbit/s SFPs. You can set FC ports to auto-negotiate the link speed or to use a specific link speed. iSCSI ports
support use of qualified 1-Gbit/s or 10-Gbit/s SFPs. iSCSI port speeds are auto-negotiated.
NOTE: For information about setting advanced host-port parameters, such as FC port topology, see the CLI
Reference Guide.
To change FC host interface settings
1. In the Configuration View panel, right-click the system and select Configuration > System Settings > Host
Interfaces.
2. Set the Speed option to the proper value to communicate with the host. The speed can be set to auto, which
auto-negotiates the proper link speed with the host, or to 4Gb, 8Gb, or 16Gb (Gbit/s). Because a speed
mismatch prevents communication between the port and host, set a speed only if you need to force the port to use
a known speed. The maximum link speed is determined by the installed SFP.
3. Click Apply.