timzones

[William Preston]

On  Mar12, 2009, at 11:09, Nick wrote:
> We use FoxBox for sending out SMS's which is now built into Nagios
>

If you mean the sendSMS.sh script from foxbox, then you can use it  
with NoMa too -
the advantage is that you can log the failed sends and optionally  
escalate
to Mail or Voice.

> Lets hope setting time zones per contact relative to GMT with a  
> setting for
> start/end DST can be added to Nagios in a future version.

i agree it would be a handy feature, especially if checks could also  
be scheduled
in localtime - I would use the standard system Timezone support though.
Anyway, this is the developer list -> get coding and create a  
patch!!! ;-)

> I counted up yesterday and I need over 100 different time periods  
> to cover
> all the contacts, and that needs to be changed 2 times a year for DST.

you make it sound so easy... in my experience it's a lot more complex  
- countries
have a habit of changing aroung their DST changeovers on a whim.
I'm thinking here particularly of Western Australia.


William

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