You can set the Central Management System appliance date and time manually, or configure one or more Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers that synchronize the time automatically. You can also perform a one-time synchronization of the system clock to the DTI server clock.
This section covers the following information:
Note
The date and time are stored as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the database. The Z character in syslog output indicates that the time displayed is in the UTC time zone; for example, Oct 19 2016 16:10:10 Z. By default, the display time zone is UTC.
If you manually configure the time of Endpoint Security (HX) servers, be sure the server times of all your Endpoint Security (HX) servers are synchronized. A number of Endpoint Security (HX) services (including PKI services and transport layer security services) require that the dates and times of your Endpoint Security (HX) servers be accurate and synchronized within five seconds of each other. If you use NTP synchronization, the dates and times of your Endpoint Security (HX) servers will be synchronized automatically.