[hobbit] Handling Downtime across timezones?

[Josh Luthman]

See what I mean? =)

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.

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <SKreien at la-z-boy.com>wrote:

>  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.
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Scot Kreienkamp
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> *From:* Brand, Thomas R. [mailto:TRBrand at cvs.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:34 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Handling Downtime across timezones?
>
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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.
>
> This process starts sometime between 12:30 am and 3:30am client LOCAL time
> and runs about 15 minutes.
>
> 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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