Xymon queries on Timezone & graphs.

[Dinabandhu Mitra <Dinabandhu.Mitra (at) tecnotree.com>]

Hi,

We have recently started using xymon as a monitoring tool. We are facing some hurdles in using for our needs. I have given the details below. It would be great if someone can give us few pointers -


1.       Timezone
We are planning to have a multilayered monitoring structure. We have a central xymon server at our head office. Which is used by HO admins to monitor local offices. Each Site has a xymon server and a proxy. The site server is used by site admins to monitor the local site. The clients send data to local proxy, which forwards to both local and central server.
The sites are in different time zones. Ideally we would want the graphs to show timestamps as per the local time zone of each server. Is there a way to do this?
We saw one post on mail archives that mentions this. But the solution given for graphs on that post is not quite clear.

2.       The graphs shows four graphs for each test; 48hrs, 12days,48 days & 576 days. After some digging in code we found that these intervals are actually a function of step & RRA values. In the current code both the step (always default 300) and RRA is hardcoded. If we change the code to take step and RRAs dynamically (we are looking at do_external), will the graph generation utility automatically take this into account and generate additional graphs. This might be theoretically possible as "rrdtool info" command gives the necessary details.

Regards,
Dinabandhu