SLA\Availability Reports

Thanks Henrik, the second bb-hosts file was the piece I was missing.
Do you still have a wishlist on amazon.co.uk?  I looked for your name but
didn't find anything.


On 12/7/05, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:13:15AM -0500, Bill Perez wrote:

I am looking for some more information on the SLA reporting options
within
Hobbit (running 4.1.2 on Fedora Core 4).  In the past I used the SLA

Report

script from deadcat.net for Big Brother where anyone could go to the
report
page, select their date range and the SLA Report button.  Within the
SLAreport script I had specified the servers we wanted to report on,
options, timeframe.
I have read the man pages for bbgen, bb-hosts and bb-replog but
am not sure how to get this same functionality out of Hobbit.  I would
like
our metrics person to be able to access the URL to select the date range
and
have it return on only our production servers from 7am-7pm.  I tried
using
hobbitreports.sh and modified the time, but it still showed up as 24x7
when
I generated the report and also wasn't sure where to specify only
specific
hosts within that file.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hobbit basically reads the hostlist from the bb-hosts file - any host
listed there is included in the report. So if you want a report with
only a select set of hosts, you'll need to generate a special bb-hosts
file with only those hosts in it.

To use this special bb-hosts file, setup a script to run the report:

  #!/bin/sh

  BBHOSTS=/home/hobbit/server/etc/report-hosts
  export BBHOSTS
  bbgen --reportopts=.....

and run it with "bbcmd myreportscript". You may want to look at the
hobbitreports.sh script included in Hobbit - it lets you pre-generate
reports on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

Inside the bb-hosts file, you can then use the REPORTTIME parameter for
each host to define the time-of-day included where outages count in the
SLA calculations that the report provides. If you use the same period
for all hosts, it's probably easiest to define this using a ".default."
host at the top of the bb-hosts file. E.g.

0.0.0.0 .default. # REPORTTIME=W:0700:1900

defines the default report-time to be weekdays from 7AM to 7PM. These
parameters and the ".default." hosts are described in the bb-hosts
man-page.


Regards,
Henrik