Nagios numbers useless

[Marc Powell]

I don't use the availability reporting much but I hazard an educated guess...

The numbers in parenthesis probably represent the relative percentages of known time for the host (up, down and unreachable). The numbers outside parenthesis represent the percentages for all 4 possible states. Undetermined simply means that nagios coult not determine the state of the host for a percentage of time during you reporting period. This could be because nagios wasn't running or a host simply didn't exist for part of the reporting period. Is that the case with host B? You can use the Initial State options to fake host OK's at the beginning of your reporting period and that will probably give you more of what you are expecting.


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Marc

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-----Original Message-----
From: Björn Ekengren <bjorn.ekengren at itsalive.com>
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net' <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tue Nov 12 08:00:04 2002
Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios numbers useless

At first I found nagios to be a stable and competent program, but now I hesitating. The problem I have is the numbers that are presented by the availability cgi. Nowhere in the documentation can be found what the numbers mean and nowone has been able to tell me, which renders the reports pretty useless. Looking at the numbers below what are the number within parantheses and what does "Time Undetermined" mean ?
 
Host	 % Time Up	 % Time Down	 % Time Unreachable	 % Time Undetermined	
host A	 68.229% (68.235%)	 31.762% (31.765%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.009%	
host B	 15.033% (99.259%)	 0.112% (0.741%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 84.855%	
host C	 77.930% (77.937%)	 22.061% (22.063%)	 0.000% (0.000%)	 0.009%	

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