I agree completely. The logging is available. Many other programs (that cost much more money) handle their own reporting. We have developed our own reporting mechanisms, however, it might be nice if Servers Alive offered reporting. Perhaps and add on at additional charge. Pretty charts, graphs, and raw data tables would go along way to bringing server's alive into the multi-tiered enterprise.
I have recommended Servers Alive to MANY companies here. I don't know if they took my advice or not, but until I have a service provider call me and tell me that my network is down before I call them and they say "hm, sure enough I see an alarm", I will not switch my monitoring solution. Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply http://www.mwsco.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:10:17 -0500 Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting Now that I think about this logging is already done by Servers Alive, you just can't use Servers ALive to get a report of it. This is exactly what the statistical logging does. It tells you when the entry changed from status_A to status_B and how long it was in status_B before changing. Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)] On Behalf Of Brett Hanson Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:41 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting One report we've been struggling with for the last couple years is an activity report. We'd like to see a report that shows outages detected by Servers Alive in the past 7 days. This report would show the check name, when the check went down, when it came back up and the duration. Any checks down when the report is run would show as 'Currently Down'. For example: Check Name Down At Up At Outage Duration LDAP Server 27-Aug 4:06 PM 27-Aug 4:32 PM 26 Minutes Service A 29-Aug 3:10 AM Currently Down 5 Hours 17 Minutes Our biggest issue is problems with accuracy that result when Servers Alive is restarted - a check that was down before Servers Alive was shut down and was up when Servers Alive started again is not detected as a status change, and no database record showing the transition exists. Regards, Brett Hanson Systems Analyst Agrium >>> "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])> 8/29/2008 3:50 AM >>> One of the often returning question on Servers Alive is if it can do reporting. We always point to the HTML template based output and to the DB logging (using a 3rd party report writer). Still it seems that this is not what people are looking for. That's why we would like you to help us with some brainstorming around that reporting feature. I'll start by giving my own idea on it. * it's based on the HTML template based output * it can be set to be executed (generated) once a day and you can select what "entries" go on it * you can ofcourse have several output's and for several sets of entries * additional parameters are needed like % up cycles % down cycles % maintenance cycles and this per DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR with "easy" access to the current (day/week/...) and the previous (day/week/...) and also access to other days/weeks/months/year. Example: <sa_stats_up_week{pervious}%>gives the up% of the previous week <sa_stats_up_week082008%>gives the up% of week 8 of 2008 <sa_stats_down_month082008%>gives the up% of month 8 of 2008 All ideas/comments/additions are MORE THEN WELCOME Dirk Bulinckx. 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