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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?