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Learning Nagios 4

By : Wojciech Kocjan
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Learning Nagios 4

By: Wojciech Kocjan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Nagios 4
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Generating reports


One of the most important features of the web interface is the ability to create reports. Many larger companies need those to make decisions at a higher management level, smaller ones can benefit from it. Reporting functionality can also be used to browse historical notifications and alerts and see complete logs from a specified period.

Nagios offers the following types of reports:

  • Trend reporting for hosts or services: This report shows state history changes for a single object along with status information from performed checks.

  • Availability report for hosts or services : This report shows how much time an object has spent in a particular status. It can report all objects or a single object and can also generate reports for host groups and service groups

  • Alert histogram : This report shows the number of alerts that have occurred over a period of time for a particular host or service.

In addition, Nagios can report a history of alerts, notifications, or all events. This...