System information

308 Logical Partitions on System i5
Time of day
You can display and change the system’s current date and time. This function is not available
if your system is powered on. If your system is powered on, you will see a panel as shown in
Figure 10-42.
Figure 10-42 Time of day not available
If your system is powered off, you will see a panel as shown in Figure 10-43 allowing you to
make changes to the system date or time.
Figure 10-43 Reset date or time of day
Use the following information to help you change the date or time. Click the Save settings
button to initiate the changes.
Date
Enter the current date. Any change to the current date or time is applied to the service
processor only, and is independent of any partition.
Time
Enter the current time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) format. UTC is equivalent to
mean solar time at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), formerly expressed as
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Firmware update policy
Using this option, you can specify the source for firmware updates to your system. Firmware
updates can be received from one of two sources:
򐂰 From the Hardware Management Console (HMC):
If an HMC is attached to the system, you can receive firmware updates directly to the
HMC via the Web. The HMC can then be used to initiate the firmware updates to the
system.
򐂰 From the operating system:
Firmware updates are also available from the operating system (for example, i5/OS) and
are delivered by the Program Temporary Fix (PTF) process. So if you have i5/OS installed
in one or more partitions of your server you could update the firmware via the operating
system. (For the i5/OS operating system, these PTFs are delivered as a new type of PTF
with the format MHXXXX. Note that in previous releases of OS/400 the PTF process
provided only for MFXXXX and SFXXXX PTFs.)