Added "Blame" to availability reports

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Tue Mar 17 17:15:56 CET 2009


On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Peter Burkholder wrote:

> The one thing that's requested is the ability to report on
> availability that's 'Our Fault' vs. availability thats 'Vendor Fault'.
>
> 1) Is anyone here aware of any add-ons that would provide the ability
> to ascribe downtime periods to a cause, then provide reports on
> downtime due to that cause?

Not I (but they may exist).

> 2) If I were to write my own add-on, what would be the right approach?

If I were to develop an external app to do this for a single service,  
I'd approach it by using an event_handler to log down and up  
timestamps to a database, then add comments to the database associated  
with those events.

> 3) Could I get the requested availability reporting if I were to
> create some weird timeperiod like
> '24x7_except_the_times_we_screwed_up', where that timeperiod were to
> use 24x7, with exceptions for the downtime that were our fault?

Not that I can envision.

The simplest, nagios-native approach I can think of is to just add a  
comment to the service with the detail you want. At the end of each  
month, review the comments for the service then remove them.

--
Marc


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