Report Types and Generation

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.

Types of Reports

There are four 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 the monitors were 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 the 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 trends 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

It 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.