Smarts: How can I specify Smarts to log time in the 24 hour format rather than the 12 hour format?

Products

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Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Smarts: How can the date and time format in Smarts logging be changed?
Smarts: How can I specify Smarts to log time in the 24 hour format rather than the 12 hour format?

Smarts: How can I change the time and date stamp formats in Smarts log files?

 

Smarts is currently logging time stamps in the following format:

Last discovery started at 12-Jun-2009 12:00:02 AM GMT

The Server however, reports the time in the following format:

bash-2.03$ date
Fri Jun 12 09:05:02 GMT 2009

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

There are three environment variables that you can use to achieve the results that you are looking for. These are explained in the System Admin Guide that is installed with every Smarts product in <BASEDIR>/smarts/doc/pdf.

You can set the following environment variables in  your runcmd_Env.sh file:

SM_FORMAT_DATE
SM_FORMAT_TIME
SM_FORMAT_DATETIME

As the environment is loaded in, a restart of the domain is required for these variables to take effect.