To correctly reset the date and time after replacing a battery, you must prevent the host from automatically powering on, and also disable any NTP server connections. Before you remove power from the server, perform these steps.
-> show /SP/policy HOST_AUTO_POWER_ON /SP/policy Properties: HOST_AUTO_POWER_ON = enabled
-> set /SP/policy HOST_AUTO_POWER_ON=disabled
-> show /SP/clock usentpserver /SP/clock Properties: usentpserver = enabled
-> set /SP/clock usentpserver=disabled
Replacing the battery is a cold-service procedure. The server must be completely powered down before performing this procedure.
The following example sets the date to August 22, 2016, and the timezone to EDT.
-> set /SP/clock datetime=0812213202016 timezone=EDT Set 'datetime' to '0812213202016' Set 'timezone' to 'PEDT' -> show -d properties /SP/clock /SP/clock Properties: datetime = Mon Aug 22 13:20:16 2016 timezone = EDT (EST5EDT) uptime = 2 days, 19:56:49 usentpserver = disabled
-> set /SP/policy HOST_AUTO_POWER_ON=enabled
-> set /SP/clock usentpserver=enabled
Check the status of the system battery.
-> show /SYS/MB/BAT