<div>On 4/6/07, <a href="mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft@dest.gov.au">Stanley.Hopcroft@dest.gov.au</a> <<a href="mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft@dest.gov.au">Stanley.Hopcroft@dest.gov.au </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Folks, Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or later) for availability reporting ? I believe that NDOUtils inserts rows representing down times in an MySQL table, making it much easier for DIY reporters to produce reports. I am currently using an event handler for adding outage records to a table but I am not happy with this method. Thank you,</blockquote><div> NDOUtils will take the majority of the data associated with your Nagios installation and send it to a database for you (currently only mysql is supported). You can store information about your current setup, notifications, current host/service status, the results of checks etc. With this information in a database you are free to do what you want with it. I believe the current plan is to leverage the data that is stored in the database to faciliate a complete overhaul of the current Nagios frontend. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from putting together your own application that makes custom graphs, custom reports based around the data available to you. You can use whatever language you like, through whatever presentation medium you like. You are simply limited by the connection to the database, and as I assume you will be managing the database, this shouldn't be a problem. Rob </div> </div>