You can make SysOrb generate a report about the condition of your network during a specified time interval. This chapter will guide you through setting up a report template, and generating the report.
A report template is used to define which parts of the monitored Checks/Nodes/Domains you want to include in the report. Typically you will have a few report templates, and have SysOrb generate instances of these templates either by explicitly requesting them, or automatically at regular time intervals. Older instances will be available for reference and comparison.
To create a report template choose Configure in the navigation menu, and do the following steps:
In the tree that appears, choose the domain you which to generate a report for by clicking on the name.
Click the button.
Give the report a name in the Report name field.
Choose the report type. You can select one of the following:
System availability: Reports any severe events and calculates a availability percentages, downtime percentage etc. for a all Checks/Nodes and Domains. It will also make plots of the checks for the period.
Severe events: Reports any severe events in the period choosen.
Response time: Reports the response time of the checks in the period choosen.
Current licenses: Reports number of licenses currenly assigned to each of the domains configured.
Next select the period in time you wish to make the the report for. You can eighter choose a period e.g. Last week, and when the report is generated it will make the the report for the time interval: sunday 2 weeks ago until last sunday.
You can also specify a time interval to make the report over. This is mostly used to generate a report once, whereas using a period is used if you would like to generate a report every week for example.
In the section Recurrence you can specify that SysOrb should automatically generate an instance of this report template a some given points in time.
In the field Email addresses you can specify a comma separated list of email adresses of people who should receive a copy of the report every time an instance is generated. This is particularly useful in conjunction with recurrence (above).
Max. instances when set will limit the number of instances of this report template, that SysOrb will store. If the limit has been reached SysOrb will delete the oldest instance, when a new report is to be generated.
Last select the Public visible if you want other people that yourself to see reports generated by this template
Click the button to go on and select which nodes should be included in this report.
Now you should select the Domains/Nodes to be included in the report. Selecting a domain means that every Node in that domain and its subdomains will be included in the report.
You can see the current selection in the right half of the screen. You add or remove Nodes or Domains from the selection by checking them and pushing one of the arrow buttons in the center bar.
If you want to include nodes primarily based on their NodeClass, then select the topmost domain here, and you will be able to constrain the nodes to be included by their NodeClass in the next step.
When you have made your selection, push the button at the bottom.
If you do not select any NodeClasses at this step, then every Node selected in the previous step will be included in the report.
If you select some NodeClasses here, then only nodes which belong to every one of the selected NodeClasses will be included in the report. If you for instance select the classes "Web server" and "Debian Linux", then only Debian machines running a web server will be included. If you select "Windows" and "Solaris" then no Nodes will be included (as no node can belong to both the "Windows" and the "Solaris" NodeClass.)
If you want all of your Windows server and all of your Solaris servers in one report, then select one of the classes at this time. And after Step 4 go back and make an additional selection with the other NodeClass.
When you have made your selection, push the button at the bottom.
If you want all checks on the selected Nodes to appear in the report, then you can skip this step. Otherwise you can select among all the checks present at any of the included nodes. If some of the nodes does not have all the selected checks, only the ones which is actually active on the particular node will be shown in the report. (Other nodes in the report may still have all the checks shown, if they are present there.)
When you have made your selection, push the button at the bottom.
You have now completed the report template, and may proceed to generate a report instance from this template.
Optionally you may go back and add more selections, this will take you through steps 2 to 4 again.