That's strange…
I get:
status-list
protocol-list
check-list
person-list
team-list
entry-list
group-list
ext-com-list
setup
setup-alert
setup-logging
setup-output
Seems that indeed we missed some parts in the setup …but it should give
more then the teams.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Brett Hanson
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:11 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting
Hmm... No, I hadn't. I've just tried it and the file stops right after
</team-list>, and there is nothing in the log file indicating why it stopped.
Brett Hanson
>>> "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/29/2008 9:50 AM >>>
there is an XML output, did you look at that?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Brett Hanson
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:41 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting
Agreed, statistical logging is the basis of the data, but this is the kind of
reporting we are looking for. As far as other kinds of reporting from Servers
Alive goes, I would certainly like to know over the last x days what the up,
down, and maintenance statistics were.
I would also really like to have not just the html page export, but also a xml
file export of the cycle data. I currently use an html template laid out as a
xml file, then use xsl to present the data. I currently have to be careful
with the naming of the checks and descriptions to not include any characters
that would cause the xml file generated to be invalid.
I know some people are asking for reporting of the configuration, but my
preference would be to work on making it easier to manipulate the checks and
alerts. I would really love having the configuration of the checks in a
database as it would make it so much easier to look through and change the
configuration for particular items. Right now, it takes about 8 hours to
review the alerts for all the checks we have setup to ensure they are all
configured correctly. Most of that time is spent clicking through the user
interface.
Regards,
Brett Hanson
>>> "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/29/2008 9:10 AM >>>
Now that I think about this logging is already done by Servers Alive, you just
can't use Servers ALive to get a report of it.
This is exactly what the statistical logging does.
It tells you when the entry changed from status_A to status_B and how long it
was in status_B before changing.
Dirk Bulinckx.
From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Brett Hanson
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting
One report we've been struggling with for the last couple years is an activity
report. We'd like to see a report that shows outages detected by Servers Alive
in the past 7 days. This report would show the check name, when the check went
down, when it came back up and the duration. Any checks down when the report
is run would show as 'Currently Down'.
For example:
Check Name Down At Up At Outage Duration
LDAP Server 27-Aug 4:06 PM 27-Aug 4:32 PM 26 Minutes
Service A 29-Aug 3:10 AM Currently Down 5 Hours 17 Minutes
Our biggest issue is problems with accuracy that result when Servers Alive is
restarted - a check that was down before Servers Alive was shut down and was up
when Servers Alive started again is not detected as a status change, and no
database record showing the transition exists.
Regards,
Brett Hanson
Systems Analyst
Agrium
>>> "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/29/2008 3:50 AM >>>
One of the often returning question on Servers Alive is if it can do reporting.
We always point to the HTML template based output and to the DB logging (using a
3rd party report writer). Still it seems that this is not what people are
looking for.
That's why we would like you to help us with some brainstorming around that
reporting feature.
I'll start by giving my own idea on it.
* it's based on the HTML template based output
* it can be set to be executed (generated) once a day and you can select
what "entries" go on it
* you can ofcourse have several output's and for several sets of entries
* additional parameters are needed like
% up cycles
% down cycles
% maintenance cycles
and this per DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR
with "easy" access to the current (day/week/...) and the previous
(day/week/...) and also access to other days/weeks/months/year.
Example:
<sa_stats_up_week{pervious}%>gives the up% of the previous
week
<sa_stats_up_week082008%>gives the up% of week 8 of 2008
<sa_stats_down_month082008%>gives the up% of month 8 of 2008
All ideas/comments/additions are MORE THEN WELCOME
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