Availability Report

[Terry Simons]

You can also set this parameter in  your cgi.cfg file.

You can tell it that the first assumed state is up, and then you don't 
have to much with the drop-down box every time you create a report.

- Terry


On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 09:43 AM, Russell Scibetti wrote:

> You don't have to edit any CGI's.  It's a form drop-down when you go 
> through the step for creating an availability or trend report.  First 
> you choose host or service, then which host or service to report on, 
> then the page that asks what time period, etc.  On  that page, there is 
> a drop-down form box for First Assumed State.  Set that to Host OK, 
> then create the report.
>
> -Russell
>
> Scott wrote:
>
> Ack! This answered my question which I just posted.  Thanks!  Anyway to
> set to default to assumed state:up?  I expect I would have to edit one 
> of
> the status*.cgi files, but I don't know cgi :(.  Any insights?
> -Scott
>
> Russell Scibetti said:
>
> In the graphs, hosts will ALWAYS be undetermined unless a service check
>  has failed on that box.  Host checks never run unless a service on
> that  hosts fails.  on the status screen, this shows up as Host OK
> Assumed to  be up.  However, in the graphs, since there is no real host
> data (not  host checks have occurred), it shows up as undetermined.
> The easy way  to fix this is on the Select Report Options step, changed
> the Assumed  State drop to Host UP instead of unspecified.  This will
> change those  undetermineds to OK, which is really the case because
> they are up (all  their services are up, so they must be up), they just
> haven't been checked.
>
> -Russell
>
> Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to get the host(s) to stop giving an undetermined
>  status in any of the reporting tabs?  On of my operations analysts
> has  to turn in a monthly report on system availability, and these
> reports  would be useful.  However, anytime we run the reports, the
> majority of  the time for all the hosts is indeterminate.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
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> Russell Scibetti
> Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.quadrix.com
> (732) 235-2335, ext. 7038
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> --
> Russell Scibetti
> Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.quadrix.com
> (732) 235-2335, ext. 7038
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