Questions: BMC Clock Skew - Certificate Failure¶
- What is the current date/time on the BMC, and how far off is it from actual time?
- Does the BMC have NTP configured, and is it able to reach the NTP server?
- Did the BMC clock drift or reset because the server was powered off for 3 weeks?
- What are the validity dates on the BMC's SSL certificate?
- Is the BMC battery (which maintains the RTC) functioning?
- Can the BMC clock be set manually via ipmitool or the iLO CLI?
- Would regenerating the self-signed certificate fix the issue, or is the clock the root cause?
- Are other BMCs that were powered off during the same maintenance window affected?
- Can monitoring scripts be temporarily configured to skip certificate validation?