Global users and time zones

[Andreas Ericsson]

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.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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