Soul Purpose

Nithish Rodrigo, Engineer with around 5+ years of experience in Managing & supporting software for large scale international clients. Let me give you'll a brief introduction about the purpose of this blog and reason to come up with this so called Make&Break title and what it's going to contain.

 The soul purpose of this blog is to keep my self motivated and keep learning the new trend and of course the basic of support engineering. What should a person know in the field of Software or "Technical Support".

"Try to Learn something about Everything" 

I consider the above statement as the norm in order to explore in field of Support engineering.
learning something about everything gives you large scope in the market and ability to gain learn more technologies and also when it comes to an individual's career it give the addition edge among your competitors.


Through this blog i will be sharing my knowledge in this field and the in areas which i have evolved so far in the field of support and also to gain spotlight in the massive crowd of techies 😉.

Topics which I will talk in this blog as follow:

• Operating Systems - Linux/Unix & Microsoft server 2012 R2, Mostly I will talk the commands and some admin knowledge
• Database - Oracle 11g (DBA / SQL), MySQL, I will share about SQL queries and some notes on Oracle Architectures.  
• Web Services - SOAP 😊
• Application server - Jboss
• Experience on working with issue tracking management system Remedy/JIRA
• Middleware – Oracle Tuxedo
• Shell scripting - Basic scripting with shell 👀
• Monitoring tool – Expreience on working with Nagios monitoring system
• Network switches and routers – troubleshooted routers and swtiches and configured SNMP.

timedatectl, Setting up date and time using timedatactl command

Setting up date and time using timedatactl command in centos, timedatectl command is a new utility for CentOS 7 which replaces the old school date command.

No bullsh*t lets dive,
Command info : - To display the current date and time of the system.

Command Usage : - timedatectl status

Command info :- To view all available timezones

Command usage : - timedatectl list-timezones

Command info : - Setting the timezone in centos according to our location

Command usage : - timedatectl set-timezone "Asia/Jayapura"

In Linux it is always recommended to use UTC timezone to be set as time because help in making system trouble shooting easier.

Command usage : - timedatectl set-timezone UTC

Setting time/date using set-time command

Command usage : - timedatectl set-time HH:MM:SS (Hour, Minute and Seconds)

Note :  in order to set your own time, you got disable automatic time synchronization (NTP).

As you can see in the above image on how to disable automatic time synchronization (NTP).

To switch on the NTP, try the below command.

Command usage :- timedatectl set-ntp 1

Now let's setup the time

Last but not least, the date :)

format of date in YY:MM:DD (Year, Month, Day)

There we go....