Weekly Reporting

lsatkins · Post by **lsatkins** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:17 am

Is there an add on that will allow me to send out emails on a regularly scheduled basis that shows what devices were down at that time and what went down during the week? I use the NMID up/down for sending out emails when a device becomes unreachable (which is great) but I would like to see historical data also.

Post by **gandalf** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:27 am

Nectar plugin is meant to send reports on a scheduled basis.
It was intended to send graphs and text. It may turn out that a combination of nectar and a different plugin (the one that creates your history) may solve this.
Unfortunately, this is not yet implemented in any way. So let's discuss
R.

phalek · Post by **phalek** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:36 pm

lsatkins wrote:Is there an add on that will allow me to send out emails on a regularly scheduled basis that shows what devices were down at that time and what went down during the week? I use the NMID up/down for sending out emails when a device becomes unreachable (which is great) but I would like to see historical data also.

You mean something like this ?:

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=36637

Hyperlord · Post by **Hyperlord** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:50 am

I just LOVE Nectar

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:20 pm

Nectar is so sweat. Get it

phalek · Post by **phalek** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:49 pm

I am just wondering how praising Nectar can help him have a history of up/down data being displayed ...

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Nevertheless, an easy sollution to this would be to store the up/down data in either a rrd file or in the database.

Maybe someone knows if there is a way to have poller scripts run as the last thing during the poller cycle, after cacti did check the status of all the devices ?

Using a separate script as a data input method which reads out the status information of a device and stores that to a rrd file would allow the inclusion of the resulting graph in Nectar and nmidCreatePDF.

I simply "assume" that the device availaibilty is the first thing cacti checks before polling any devices ( which may not be true ).

It would be the simpliest solution as far as Ican think of ....

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:25 pm

It's really easy actually. However, it could be much better.

1) The Cacti Log has the details on Up/Down/Recovering
2) The Host Table Has the Statistics
3) Reinhard and I have been having discussions to allow Nectar to be more of a general purpose Reporting tool, one that can be extended by other plugins as well as having enhancements inside of itself.

So, having a host up/down is as simple as grep'ing the Cacti log, awk'ing the pertinent messages, and building a table, and blowing out in e-mail.

That could be extended elsewhere.

It will happen. Mark my word. We are plugin crazy.

TheWitness

Post by **gandalf** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:48 pm

What about adding some plugin hook to nectar?
Any plugin, e.g. monitor, would then hook into nectar (that in turn uses code from "settings") to move its graphs/text/html code into a mail.
I will have to investigate, where to put those hooks. But the approahc seems quite straightforward to me.
R.

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:05 pm

You hit the nail on the head. The plugin only needs to know how to format the SQL into a variable and return it to Nectar.

TheWitness

Hyperlord · Post by **Hyperlord** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:02 am

Damn, I wanted to surprise the community with that idea and a beta version ^^

Post by **gandalf** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:50 am

Hyperlord wrote:Damn, I wanted to surprise the community with that idea and a beta version ^^

I don't argue against beta versions written by someone else ...
Please suggest your ideas, let's discuss them and go for the code. I'm currently occupied by "correcting" the mailer class so it will work for Notes clients as well, so I won't cross your roads ...
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