Global users and time zones

C. Bensend benny at bennyvision.com
Mon Oct 29 22:18:43 CET 2007


> C. Bensend wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>>    I'm in the process of designing a system to integrate our
>> existing systems database and Nagios.  It will query our database,
>> stuff the results into an interim database, that I will use to
>> build a Nagios config.
>>
>>    However, I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to handle users
>> with different time zones.  We have a number of admins that will be
>> accessing this from many areas, including the US zones and India.
>>
>>    I realize this is borderline relevant, but I'm sure some of you
>> have had to deal with this in the past.  How do you do it?  I'm
>> trying to avoid having times displayed in a single time zone and
>> having the local admins do time calculations and offsets just to
>> get their systems monitored.  I REALLY don't want to have a Nagios
>> server in each time zone if I can in any way avoid it.
>>
>>    I'd also be open to any third-party front ends that may handle
>> this more gracefully than I might.  :)  As of right now, I'm using
>> PHP and PostgreSQL, and will be building the config files with
>> perl.
>>
>
> What's the main issue? Timeperiods with india-workhours and so on
> should work nicely for both *check_period and *notification_period,
> shouldn't it? Since you'd probably want templates to up timeouts
> and stuff when checking the really remote things anyway, I'm thinking
> it won't be much of a chore.

Functionally, I don't have any real huge issues.  I can get it
done.

What I'm unsure of, is how much the presentation of the data
will confuse the remote guys.  Everyone will *presume* the
numbers and times they're seeing are in their local time, and
that might present some confusion.  This can be handled somewhat
with education and clearly-written help, but it will still be
an issue.

And since this is likely a common thing for people that do this
type of thing globally, I thought I'd ask to see how others are
handling it.

Thanks,

Benny


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