--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:00:01 AM -0400 "Richard E. Brown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We'd like to know what kinds of reports or historical data that would be useful.
> Use the questions below as starters, and send your thoughts back to this list to
> spur further comments. 
> -        Do you need daily, weekly, monthly reports? Of what kinds of
> information? 

not especially, unless IM starts doing the same thing as RRDtool or RTG does (ie graph 
each
counter and store it for later analysis)

> -        Do you want reports of outages, traffic trends, utilization? 

sure! trends, and top 10 outages by host would be nice.

> -        Do you care how the data is saved? Would text files suffice? Is an SQL
> database required? 

an HTML and/or PDF report for our dumb managers, not a bad idea :)

> -        How would you use this data? To help improve service? To look for
> trouble spots? To convince your boss you're doing a good job? :-) 

The boss.

--
Jerome Fleury

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