Time and date, E-mail – Geist RAC User Manual
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Revision Date: 09/03/2014
Time and Date
The system clock is set on the Admin tab of the Configuration page. The unit comes
preconfigured with the IP addresses of two NIST time servers and is set to the Central Time
Zone (-0500 GMT). Should a local time server be preferred, enter its IP address into the “NTP
primary server” box and click the “Save Changes” button. Clearing the time server addresses
and clicking “Save Changes” will set the time servers back to the defaults. The unit attempts to
contact the time servers during boot up and periodically while running. Until a time server is
contacted or the system clock is manually set, all log time stamps will present time as the
number of seconds since the unit was powered up and graphs will not be shown.
Figure 16: Time Settings
The time, date, IP address and friendly name of the unit are displayed in the top of each web
page.
Figure 17: Time and Date Display
Note: The time and date are not adjusted for daylight savings time. Setting the time zone offset forward
and backward an hour will cause a gap or overwriting of logs, respectively.
The unit is capable of sending e-mail to as many as five addresses at once. Most SMTP and
ESMTP servers are compatible. Authentication options are None, POP3 (POP-before-SMTP) or
ESMTP. The e-mail configuration is set on the Monitoring tab of the Configuration page.