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 <user-462cf0b6d846@xymon.invalid>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.
Thanks,
Scot Kreienkamp
*From:* Brand, Thomas R. [mailto:user-10a840458972@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:34 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] Handling Downtime across timezones?
I have client systems spread over several time zones from AST (Atlantic
Standard Time) to HST (Hawaii Standard Time) and everything in between.
My hobbit server is in EST time zone.
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.
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.
E.g.:
* client systems in Puerto Rico run EOD at 12:30am AST, which is 11:30 pm
EST (previous day)
* client systems in Hawaii run EOD at 3:30 am HST, which is 9:30 am EST
I have not figured out a way to do this – at least not with the DOWNTIME
flag.
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.
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?
N.B – I’m going to be dealing with over 7000 clients
Thanks,
*Tom Brand*