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How to Change Server Timezone

Step-by-step guide for changing the server timezone and ensuring it is correctly reflected in Opsview. For consistency and best practices, it is recommended to set the server timezone to UTC.

Problem Copied

Service checks are failing because the collection plan was not updated, caused by inconsistent timezones across the cluster and the servers not being set to UTC

Process Copied

  1. Change the server timezone
timedatectl set-timezone UTC
  1. Reboot the server
reboot
  1. Delete Datastore “opsview-collector”
/opt/opsview/supportscripts/bin/datastore list
/opt/opsview/supportscripts/bin/datastore delete opsview-collector
  1. Restart opsview-scheduler component
/opt/opsview/watchdog/bin/opsview-monit restart opsview-scheduler
  1. Push new collection plan and run apply changes
/opt/opsview/orchestrator/venv3/bin/orchestratorgenerate -e <machine.ref>
/opt/opsview/orchestrator/venv3/bin/orchestratorgenerate
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