Identity manager Time zones - UTC

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

IDM servers with two different clusters in different Time zones.

One cluster is in EST time zone and another one is in Central time zone.
so currently servers located in New York has EST time zone and servers located in Winnipeg has CDT time zone.

How to configure UTC as time zone on the  CA App (IDM) level so that both clusters are using the same time zone.

Environment

Component : CA IDENTITY SUITE (VIRTUAL APPLIANCE)

Resolution

add the

-Duser.timezone=America/New York ( in case you would like to change to EST) on standalone.conf under JVM options and then restart the IDM.