Recommendations for action with CA VM:Manager suite products during time zone changes
The following describes our current recommendations on what you need to do to allow our VM:Manager products to successfully process a time zone change.
Recycle means to END the product before the time zone change then reinitialize after the time zone change.
CA VM:Account – Time zone change causes VM:Account’s shift change process to run. This process gets new date time information and re-establishes the next shift.
Recommendation: Recycle not required
CA VM:Archiver
Recommendation: Recycle
CA VM:Backup
Recommendation: Recycle
CA VM:Backup HiDRO
Recommendation: Recycle HiDRO when it is convenient but until it is recycled all human readable time information will be incorrect.
CA VM:Batch – Shift reconfiguration is done on a time zone change.
Recommendation: Recycle not required
CA VM:Director - – The product cuts audit record 1060 that marks the event and does other internal processing for the time zone change.
Recommendation: Recycle not required
CA VM:Schedule
Recommendation- VM:Schedule 2.0 – Recycle
VM:Schedule 1.4 – Recycle not required the product adjusts for the zone change.
Make sure requests that run around the time that the time zone will change have a WITHIN time setting of at least one hour so when the time goes back an hour they will be in their WITHIN time and will still run.
CA VM:Secure – The product cuts audit record 1060 that marks the event and does other internal processing for the time zone change.
Recommendation: Recycle not required
CA VM:Sort
Recommendation: Nothing to do
CA VM:Spool
Recommendation: Recycle
CA VM:Tape
Recommendation: Recycle
CA VM:Operator - VM:Operator closes the syslog file.
Recommendation: Recycle not required