This isn't ready for public consumption quite yet, but I wanted to
give you guys a peek of what I'm working with for my next set of web
templates.

Go to:
http://www.brentozar.com/SangfroidJr/default.asp

You'll see two groups of servers, Dallas and Local.  Click on "Show
All Checks" for the Local group, and it shows all of the checks in
that group.  No big news there.  But click on an individual check -
let's say BrentOzar.com [W], which is my web server.

You can see the most recent records from ServersAlive's Stats and
Interchange tables, and you can click View All next to either one to
see all of the related records.

Below the Most Recent stuff, you'll see a list of related links.  You
can set up related links for each check - in this case, you're looking
at my MRTG bandwidth chart for this server, the Motherboard Monitor
temperature report for it, and the Monitored Page, which is the page
SA checks for this server.

The MRTG data is limited because I just reinstalled MRTG due to moving
a drive around, long story.  If you're not familiar with MRTG, it's a
free Perl package that graphs traffic using SNMP:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Motherboard Monitor is a free Windows program to monitor motherboard
temps, fan speeds, etc:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com

Anyway, this web reporting will integrate with pretty much anything
that has a web link or produces web images.  I'll put it up on my
ServersAlive tips & tricks page, probably tomorrow night, after I put
some more work into it.  Right now it only works with SQL because of
some problems I had with ODBC logging, but I should have that fixed
tomorrow.

Plus, you can click on Log Search at the left side of the page and
search by date or by keyword.  I've only got a few days of data in
there, since 3/19/2003, and it's chock full of errors because I've
been doing a bunch of testing with different builds.

The look and feel of it is in two files, a header and a footer, and
the colors are done with CSS, so it's pretty easy to modify.

The downside is that it requires the Enterprise Edition of SA, because
it runs off ODBC, but Dirk's been kind enough to work on an updated
build of SA that will let us do URL links in other versions of SA as
well.  More on that later - it's naptime.  :-D

Brent


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BrentO
Famous Last Words #32: "We hire Orcus to be our guide..."


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