Preparing the Vocera Voice Server for a New Installation / Preparing the Vocera Voice Server |
If you are planning to deploy a Vocera cluster, best practice is to synchronize the clocks on each server in the cluster. You are not required to synchronize the clocks to support cluster failover; however, if the clocks are set to different times, troubleshooting with system log files and analyzing Vocera Report Server log files becomes difficult after a failover.
If the servers physically reside in different time zones, you should set them all to a single time zone at the operating system level, then use Vocera to specify the actual time zone for each site. Standardizing the time zones in this manner allows the log files to be time stamped uniformly for failover purposes and also enables the Vocera Genie to say the actual correct time in voice prompts that users hear.
To synchronize cluster server clocks: