See what I mean? =)<br><br>That would accomplish the same thing on the server. I think that would work for what you're asking, however, it may be a bit labor intensive.<br><br clear="all">Josh Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>
Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."<br>--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SKreien@la-z-boy.com">SKreien@la-z-boy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Why not use the client to send a disable
message for the duration of your down window as part of your EOD process? That
way it would be in your local client time zones. Send the length of your down
window in the disable message and then the server will resume monitoring at the
expiration of the down window, or it can send an enable message when the EOD
process is complete.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks,</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Scot
Kreienkamp</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Brand, Thomas R.
[mailto:<a href="mailto:TRBrand@cvs.com" target="_blank">TRBrand@cvs.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 08, 2009
3:34 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] Handling
Downtime across timezones?</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My hobbit server is in EST time zone.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The client systems run an ‘End of Day’ [EOD] process every
night. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This process starts sometime between 12:30 am and 3:30am client LOCAL
time and runs about 15 minutes.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">During the EOD run, several background processes are intentionally
stopped. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">E.g.:</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> * client systems in Puerto Rico
run EOD at 12:30am AST, which is 11:30 pm EST (previous day)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> * client systems in Hawaii
run EOD at 3:30 am HST, which is 9:30 am EST</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have not figured out a way to do this – at least not with the
DOWNTIME flag.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">N.B – I’m going to be dealing with over 7000 clients</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p><b><b><i><font size="5" face="Monotype Corsiva"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-style: italic;">Tom
Brand<font color="blue"><span style="color: blue;"></span></font></span></font></i></b></b></p>
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