VCF Operations alert notifications timestamps sent in UTC rather than local timezone

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

VCF Operations alert notifications sent to external systems appear with UTC-based timestamps.

Cause

The default system timezone is UTC.

Resolution

The timezone on each of your operations nodes must be changed to the desired timezone:

1. Take a no-memory snapshot of each node
2. Take cluster offline in admin UI
3. Open SSH session to each node
4. List available timezones: timedatectl list-timezones
5. Change timezone: timedatectl set-timezone [timezone]
6. Once timezone changed on all nodes, bring cluster back online