Reports only show data from a specific time period?

[Andre Bergei]

> It sounds like you might need to implement a global event handler to 
> record state changed into a database, then run your own reports to 
> generat the necessary sub-reports.

This is what we are about to do, nagios is great for gathering data, and since
An SLA (service level agreement) mostly want availability, we can use state
Changes for the calculations.

 We are about to evaluate an report program, we tried CA's SLM option, but
That came short, it's not very flexible.

 We want do do boolean logic on objects to determine availbility, for example
We are only in breach of our SLA if 3 of 10 M$ terminal servers are down.
Crystal Reports is probaly the way to go, it better to let an specialized
Program take care of complex reporting.
 
We have a full blown distributed nagios enviroment, and we are logging state
Changes on our distributed nodes for maximum reability, then we agregate our
Logs to a central server for processing.

 One problem here is that the downtime CGI on our nagios central, do not
Update the downtime file on our distributed node, so scheduled downtime periodes
Must be processed from our downtime log file on our central. With some
Cleverness we might be able to "push" our downtime values to our distributed nodes, to
avoid processing of our downtime log.

 When we our operators do an aknowledge of an service alarm, they fill inn a troubleticket
Reference number into the comment field, when we process our state changes our plan is
To include the trouble ticket reference number to our downtime period, that would make our
SLA managers happy :)

On a sidenote, I would want an option to make tac.cgi respect the notification period, because
Our monitoring team dont want alarms outside our client sla period, we have customers 
That only got monitoring bought as an service.

Best
/andré


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