Global users and time zones

[Ton Voon]

Hi Benny,

On 29 Oct 2007, at 20:56, C. Bensend wrote:

>    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 think this is as simple as setting TZ=new_timezone before executing  
the CGIs. This seems to be the case running on command line.

What you may want to do is setup different Apache virtual hosts, say  
http://india.nagios.example.com//cgi-bin/status.cgi, http:/// 
uk.nagios.example.com/cgi-bin/status.cgi, etc and within each of  
those virtual hosts in Apache, set the TZ variable. Then, from the  
website, it is obvious which timezone data you are looking at.

>    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.

With Opsview (http://opsview.org), we'd like to incorporate timezone  
support so that a user can choose their timezone and get data  
displayed accordingly (http://trac.opsview.org/wiki/RoadMap). Let us  
know if your interested in sponsoring this development.

Ton

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