Managing Daylight Saving Time (DST) for Web Reports
By default, Web Reports track scheduled activity next attempt times using UTC rather than the local time zone.
So, when the local time zone changes, for example from daylight saving time to non-daylight saving time, reports run an hour earlier or later, depending on the direction of the change.
Starting from BigFix Version 9.5 you
can prevent to run scheduled reports an hour earlier or later because of the change due to the
daylight saving time by setting the AdjustScheduleForDST
keyword to 1.
You can set this keyword both on Windows and Linux systems where Web Reports is running, by completing the following steps:
On Windows systems:
Run regedit and locate the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\BigFix\Enterprise
Server\BESReports
.
AdjustScheduleForDST
and
set it to 1. "AdjustScheduleForDST" = "1"
On Linux systems:
AdjustScheduleForDST
keyword to the [Software\BigFix\Enterprise
Server\BESReports]
section of the beswebreports.config
file
and set it to 1:AdjustScheduleForDST = 1