Nagios numbers useless

[Björn Ekengren]

Makes sense, thank you. Now I only have to determine why I get so much
undetermined time...

/B

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike McClure [mailto:mmcclure at pneservices.com]
Sent: den 12 november 2002 18:17
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q? "Bj=F6rn_Ekengren" _; ?=@xyzzy.homeip.net
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios numbers useless


Hi Björn,

Sorry to hear you are confused.  Maybe I can help explain it.

For the reporting, a host can be either in a state that Nagios knows about
(Up,
Down, Unreachable), or it can be in a state that Nagios does not know about
(Undetermined).

The percentages *not* in parens are absolute, that is, the percentage of
time for
the period that the host was in each of the 4 states.

Now, you might only care about the time that the state was able to be
determined,
i.e., Up, Down, or Unreachable.  That is what the percentages in parentheses
are
for.

In other words, for the time period given, when Nagios was able to determine
what
the state of the host, what are the percentages of the time that the host
was Up,
Down, or Unreachable.

Make sense?

- Mike

> At first I found nagios to be a stable and competent program, but now I
> hesitating. The problem I have is the numbers that are presented by the
> availability cgi. Nowhere in the documentation can be found what the
numbers
> mean and nowone has been able to tell me, which renders the reports pretty
> useless. Looking at the numbers below what are the number within
parantheses
> and what does "Time Undetermined" mean ?
>
> Host	 % Time Up	 % Time Down	 % Time Unreachable	 % Time
> Undetermined
> host A	 68.229% (68.235%)	 31.762% (31.765%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)
> 0.009%
> host B	 15.033% (99.259%)	 0.112% (0.741%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)
> 84.855%
> host C	 77.930% (77.937%)	 22.061% (22.063%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)
> 0.009%
>


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