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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Yes I was; this is just one example where
the clients time zone is affecting the desired result.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>The hobbit server has no knowledge of the clients
timezone; but the events from the client come up with the timezone in the
timestamp.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>E.g.:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>The ‘CPU’ page shows the servers time in
the top right (which is EST), but the client status shows PDT:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 color=silver face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:silver;font-weight:bold'>Wed
Jul 08 15:46:33 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Wed
Jul 8 12:46:26 PDT 2009 up: 11:58, 0 users, 113 procs, load=0.02<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>I guess I was hoping for someway to tell
the event/alert handler to look at the timestamp of the message sent by the
client.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 08, 2009
3:42 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] Handling
Downtime across timezones?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>You specify the DOWNTIME
tag for those hosts in the different timezones. Were you looking for a
less labor intensive option?<br>
<br clear=all>
Josh Luthman<br>
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."<br>
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Brand, Thomas R. <<a
href="mailto:TRBrand@cvs.com">TRBrand@cvs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have
client systems spread over several time zones from AST (Atlantic Standard Time)
to HST (Hawaii Standard Time) and everything in between.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>My hobbit
server is in EST time zone.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
client systems run an ‘End of Day’ [EOD] process every night. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This
process starts sometime between 12:30 am and 3:30am client LOCAL time and runs
about 15 minutes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>During
the EOD run, several background processes are intentionally stopped. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I don’t
want to have alerts generated if these processes are down/stopped during EOD
but do want to be alerted if the processes are down outside of the EOD
window.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>E.g.:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> *
client systems in <st1:place w:st="on">Puerto Rico</st1:place> run EOD at
12:30am AST, which is 11:30 pm EST (previous day)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> *
client systems in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:place></st1:State>
run EOD at 3:30 am HST, which is 9:30 am EST</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have
not figured out a way to do this – at least not with the DOWNTIME flag.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>It
appears that the DOWNTIME flag on the hobbit server uses the hobbit servers’
current time to determine if an event is occurring during the DOWNTIME
interval; that’s a problem for me since from the hobbit servers perspective,
the EOD can happen over a 10 hour period.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Any
suggestions on how to configure things so that I don’t get alerts for processes
being ‘down’ from 12:30 – 3:30 am client local time?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>N.B – I’m
going to be dealing with over 7000 clients</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><font size=5 face="Monotype Corsiva"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Tom Brand</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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