Reporting

IPHost Network Monitor provides a set of group and detailed reports and graphs as well as logs. The reports give you information necessary to trace the trends in resource utilization and plan upgrades; besides, the reports and logs provide the possibility to trace the results over a certain period of time. Also, the reports may be used as a basis of accounting for the results of the administrators' work.

In IPHost Network Monitor there are two variants of accessing reports on monitoring:

1. Via a Windows Interface.

The Windows UI (monitoring client) allows access to detailed reports for each monitor and to summary reports for groups and categories. A reporting period can be any number of days and hours until now. The default report period is 24 hours (one day) until now. To adjust the report period for the Windows UI please select the Tools > Settings menu or click the Settings button on the toolbar, then select the Reporting tab and set the desired number of days and hours.

2. Via a Web Interface

Apart from the Windows client UI, IPHost Network Monitor also has a Web interface that has the Reports tab allowing to access additional types/forms of reports for any period of time. The Reports tab provides you with online access to all reports and graphs for any time period. There are three panels: the contents of the left panel completely duplicates the panel Tree View, the upper panel serves to select the type of report and period, the remaining space is reserved to display a report itself. Similar to what is implemented in the Windows interface, in the Web interface when pressing on a report reference the corresponding report is loaded and in the left panel the focus is shifted to an element corresponding to it.

Types of Reports

There are five types of reports in IPHost Network Monitor:

1. A summary report for a group, host, monitor type or the whole system.

The report provides summary data on the availability and performance of the monitors of a selected group, host, monitor type or the whole system. The pseudograph gives an approximate idea of when a monitor was in problem states.

2. A summary report for a monitor.

Although it has the same name it significantly differs in contents. The report presents detailed and practically full information on a monitor's availability and performance over a period of time.

It contains a performance graph, summary data on the monitor's availability and performance (for a selected period and a previous period of the same duration), a states log (showing the state of the monitor during a selected period) and states summary information (showing for how many hours the monitor was in problem states and the percentage of them).

3. A trend report.

The report presents comparative data on the availability and performance of monitors. For each monitor you can see summary data for a selected period, for a previous period of the same duration and the difference between them. You can use this report for identification of short or long-term trends in the monitors' performance and availability.

4. A problems report

This report shows summary information on availability and performance problems occurred during a period.

5. Logs

This report shows the log messages for the selected monitor or group and/or the system log messages over a period of time on a common timeline. You can select types of messages to show and log direction on the Parameters panel for this report.

Web Interface for Mobile Devices

There is a special version of the Web interface for mobile devices (PDA, smartphones and handheld devices). Reports generated by this version are optimized for small screen resolution. Besides, they are shorter since mobile devices often use slow Internet connection. You can access mobile version of Web interface by navigating or bookmarking an URL like http://yourhost.yourdomain:8084/nms_mobile.

Mobile versions of summary report for a group and summary report for a monitor are shown below.

Other reports stay unchanged in the mobile version of the Web interface.

Log View panel

Log View panel in cient application shows two kinds of log messages:

1. System messages (not monitor specific, shown in gray font);
2. State changes and alerts for selected monitors (the line is highlighted in the color corresponding to a state).

The messages in the log are ordered chronologically. You can set a descending or ascending order of messages in the Log View pane (click the button next to Order on the toolbar).

Receiving Scheduled Reports by E-mail

In IPHost Network Monitor there is a possibility of automatically receiving reports for the last day/week/month over the entire system. By default IPHost Network Monitor sends a summary report for the last day to the admin e-mail. You can select additional mailing lists or specify additional addressees by selecting the menu Tools > Settings (or by pressing the button Settings on the toolbar) and further selecting the tab Reporting in the open window.

You can also set up regular reporting for a host group or any single monitor, using Regular Reporting control in the corresponding Property Editor section.