Check the Core host(s) time and locale requirements

This section discusses the time and locale requirements for SA Core Servers.

Core time requirements

Core Servers (either Single Core or Multimaster) and Satellite Core Servers must meet the following requirements. These time requirements do not apply to Managed Servers.

• All SA Core Servers must have their time zone set to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
• All SA Core Servers must maintain synchronized system clocks. Typically, you will synchronize the system clocks through an external server that uses NTP (Network Time Protocol) services.

To configure the time zone on a Linux server, copy or link /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC to /etc/localtime and ensure that the /etc/sysconfig/clock file contains the following lines:

ZONE="UTC"

UTC=true

Locale requirements

• The servers hosting the Model Repository and the Software Repository (part of the Slice Component bundle) must have the en_US.UTF-8 locale installed.

• To display data from Managed Servers using various locales, the server hosting the Global File System (OGFS) must also have all the locales installed.

  For information about enabling non-English locales for Windows patching, see Server patching.

• To verify whether the en_US.UTF-8 locale is installed on a server, enter the following command:

  echo $LANG

• To define or modify the locale, enter the following values in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file:

  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

  SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"

• To verify whether the en_US.UTF-8 locale is installed on a server, enter the following command:

  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

  SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"