Report View

Report View displays an HTML report for the monitor or group that is currently selected in Tree View. For monitors, a detailed report including a performance graph and all state changes of this monitor is displayed. For hosts, monitor types, and other monitor groups, a summary report is shown. Reports are described in more detail here.

Reports contain hyperlinks to the parent items of a monitor or group as well as links to all monitors contained in a group and to their hosts. When you click a hyperlink, a report for the corresponding item is loaded; besides, the item gets selected in a tree in the Tree View pane and data for it is loaded in Property Editor and Log View.

The default report period is 1 day (24 hours) till now. You can adjust the report period by setting a desired number of days and hours in the Reporting tab of the Settings dialog (click the Settings button on the program toolbar or select the Tools/Settings menu). Note that graphs always show average values for 10-minute intervals so defining too short reporting periods is not practical.

If you wish to open the IPHost Network Monitor Web interface in the browser with a current report pre-loaded you should use the toolbar of Report View. The toolbar also facilitates navigation and printing of reports. It contains the following buttons.

• Back and Forward - provide standard two-way navigation like in Web browsers. When you use these buttons, not only the Report View content is changed but all the other dockable windows are updated too.

• Refresh - reloads the report from the Web server; the report is actually regenerated using the latest monitoring data.

• Print - opens the standard system Print dialog that allows printing the report.

• Open in Browser - opens the Web interface of the system in the browser and loads the current report to it.

When Report View is shown on the screen, reports are updated periodically (a progress bar in the Report View indicates that the report is being updated). Reports for individual monitors are updated after each poll or once a minute. Reports for group objects are updated once a minute. These updates may generate some CPU load when a group containing many monitors is selected; if you want to avoid this CPU load, hide the Report View dockable window, tabify it and place it behind other windows or place the client GUI to the system tray (click the Close button at the top right corner of the window) when you don't use it. In all these cases, the Report View is not visible and the report is not updated.