Scheduled/unscheduled breakdown for Group Availability Reports

[Parsell, Joshua (AJ-East Engineering/Technology)]

Hi,
 
I have noticed that when I generate an Availability report for a single
Host or Service, it is broken down by Scheduled and Unscheduled
Downtime.
 
However, when I generate the report for a group of Hosts or Services, I
don't get that breakdown of Scheduled and Unscheduled.
 
Our IT organization has specific requirements for Planned and Unplanned
downtime, and we have to report these values on a monthly basis to the
CIO.  Generating the Availability reports separately for each individual
Host and Service would be very tedious.  It would be much nicer if I
could make just a few Hostgroups and Servicegroups for all the various
types of Hosts and Services I am required to report (e.g. "Mail
Servers", "Networking Equipment", "FLEXlm License Services", etc.).
Then I would only need to generate those few availability reports each
month to get my numbers.
 
Is there a technical reason the Scheduled/Unscheduled breakdown is not
computed for groups?  I know the group display is in columns, while the
individual display uses rows to show the breakdown.  But it still seems
like it would be easy enough to display the breakdown in columns.
Currently, a servicegroup report looks like this:
 
Servicegroup 'flexlm_svcs' Service State Breakdowns:
Host	 Service	 % Time OK	 % Time Warning	 % Time Unknown
% Time Critical	 % Time Undetermined	
gvengfs01	 FLEXlm-Compaq_FORTRAN	 5.928% (100.000%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 94.072%

	FLEXlm-MATLAB	 9.798% (73.665%)	 3.503% (26.335%)
0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 86.700%	
	FLEXlm-MathCAD	 5.928% (100.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)
0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 94.072%	
 
 
Can't the OK, Warning, Unknown, and Critical columns just be divided
into two columns?  % OK Planned, % OK Unplanned, % Warning Planned, %
Warning Unplanned, etc.?  Each of those columns would still contain "%
Total (% Known)" just like now.  Like this:
 
Host	 Service	 % Time OK	 % Time Warning	 % Time Unknown
% Time Critical	 % Time Undetermined	
Unscheduled	 Scheduled	 Unscheduled	 Scheduled
Unscheduled	 Scheduled	 Unscheduled	 Scheduled	
gvengfs01	 FLEXlm-Compaq_FORTRAN	 6.035% (100.000%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)	 93.97%	
 	 FLEXlm-MATLAB	 9.798% (73.074%)	 0.000% (0.000%)
3.610% (26.926%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)
0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 86.59%	
 	 FLEXlm-MathCAD	 6.035% (100.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)
0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000%
(0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 93.97%	
 
This seems like an odd thing to leave out.  I was surprised that in
searching the mailing lists and some other Nagios forums, I can't find
any mention of this.  Am I the first person to ever ask about it?  (Or
did I not search very well?  :)
 
Thanks,
Joshua Parsell
 
--
Joshua.Parsell at Aerojet.com
Senior Application Analyst
Aerojet
 
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