Pradeep Agrawal created RANGER-1249: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Ranger admin service should run with 'UTC' default timezone Key: RANGER-1249 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-1249 Project: Ranger Issue Type: Bug Components: Ranger Affects Versions: 0.6.0, 0.7.0 Reporter: Pradeep Agrawal Assignee: Pradeep Agrawal ranger-admin-services.sh usage below command to start ranger. nohup java -Dproc_rangeradmin ${JAVA_OPTS} -Dlogdir=${RANGER_ADMIN_LOG_DIR} -Dcatalina.base=${XAPOLICYMGR_EWS_DIR} -cp "${XAPOLICYMGR_EWS_DIR}/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf:${XAPOLICYMGR_EWS_DIR}/lib/*:${RANGER_JAAS_LIB_DIR}/*:${RANGER_JAAS_CONF_DIR}:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/*:${RANGER_HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/*:$CLASSPATH" org.apache.ranger.server.tomcat.EmbeddedServer > ${RANGER_ADMIN_LOG_DIR}/catalina.out 2>&1 & Above command usage JAVA_OPTS environment variable. if JAVA_OPTS value doesn't contain '-Duser.timezone=UTC' then Ranger admin runs in local timezone rather UTC which causes timezone issue in viewing audit logs at UI end as ranger admin returns audit event time in local timezone rather in UTC format. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)