what does 'Report Period' field do in Availability report (2.x) ?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

Nag 2.x seems to have introduced a new field in the availability report 
CGI panel (http://your_nag/nagios/cgi-bin/avail.cgi?... the third panel
that looks like 

Service Availability Report                     
   Last Updated: Mon May 16 14:27:55 EST 2005
   Nagios - www.nagios.org
   Logged in as anwsmh
 
                                                Step 3: Select Report 
Options
 
     Report Period:                             [Last 7 
Days_____________]
     If Custom Report Period...
     Start Date (Inclusive):                    [May______] 1_ 2005
     End Date (Inclusive):                      [May______] 16 2005
     Report time Period:                        [None___________]
                         Assume Initial States: [Yes]
                        Assume State Retention: [Yes]
         Assume States During Program Downtime: [Yes]
                           Include Soft States: [No_]
                   First Assumed Service State: [Unspecified_____]
ktracked Archives (To Scan For Initial States): 1_
                                                Create Availability 
Report!
)

The new field is 'Report Period' and allows the selection of one of the 
configured timeperiods (24x7, none, workhours etc).

What does this 'Report Period' field do ?

Does it mean that availability is only computed for that time period ?

(so that availability for the none time period is always 100% and 
         availability for the 24x7 time period is always the sum of
          the down times/reporting interval * 100).

In other words, that downtime falling outside the time period is ignored 
?

If so, this is a great adddition and makes reporting for SLAs feasable.

Yours sincerely.


                                                   

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