[hobbit] Handling Downtime across timezones?

[Josh Luthman]

Well the DOWNTIME processing is done on the server, so I'm willing to bet
that the time it calculates is based on server time.  The CPU output is
simply a text dump and transmitted, I believe.

Maybe someone has come across this before.  If so, please help us out =)

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Brand, Thomas R. <TRBrand at cvs.com> wrote:

>  Yes I was; this is just one example where the clients time zone is
> affecting the desired result.
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> The hobbit server has no knowledge of the clients timezone; but the events
> from the client come up with the timezone in the timestamp.
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> E.g.:
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> The ‘CPU’ page shows the servers time in the top right (which is EST), but
> the client status shows PDT:
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> *Wed Jul 08 15:46:33 2009*
> *Wed Jul 8 12:46:26 PDT 2009 up: 11:58, 0 users, 113 procs, load=0.02*
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> 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.
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:42 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Handling Downtime across timezones?
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> You specify the DOWNTIME tag for those hosts in the different timezones.
> Were you looking for a less labor intensive option?
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> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
> improbable, must be the truth."
> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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>  On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Brand, Thomas R. <TRBrand at cvs.com> wrote:
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> I have client systems spread over several time zones from AST (Atlantic
> Standard Time) to HST (Hawaii Standard Time) and everything in between.
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> My hobbit server is in EST time zone.
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> The client systems run an ‘End of Day’ [EOD] process every night.
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> This process starts sometime between 12:30 am and 3:30am client LOCAL time
> and runs about 15 minutes.
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> During the EOD run, several background processes are intentionally stopped.
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> 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.
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> E.g.:
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>  * client systems in Puerto Rico run EOD at 12:30am AST, which is 11:30 pm
> EST (previous day)
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>  * client systems in Hawaii run EOD at 3:30 am HST, which is 9:30 am EST
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> I have not figured out a way to do this – at least not with the DOWNTIME
> flag.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> N.B – I’m going to be dealing with over 7000 clients
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> Thanks,
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> *Tom Brand*
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