Downtime reports with argus

[Scott Hiemstra]

> Currently we have a nagios-running server used for monitoring 
> the health of our network services as well as hosts through 
> check_ping. I haven't played with nagios reports though, as I 
> am only concerned about the alert from nagios. We use mrtg 
> for monitoring the network traffic trend. Before, we are 
> using a custom script to parse these mrtg logs and output it 
> into a report like this:
> 
> Link Description: link1
> Overall Downtime: 16.68 hour/s
> 
> Time Down   Time Up    Total     Reference No.
> 
> Mon Aug 29 15:03:08 PHT 2005    Mon Aug 29 15:13:11
> PHT 2005    0.17 hours      9399
> Fri Aug 26 02:03:08 PHT 2005    Fri Aug 26 17:43:12
> PHT 2005    15.67 hours     9297
> Wed Aug 24 17:43:09 PHT 2005    Wed Aug 24 18:23:09
> PHT 2005    0.67 hours      9273
> Fri Aug 19 07:22:43 PHT 2005    Fri Aug 19 07:32:44
> PHT 2005    0.17 hours      9086
> 
> Hours Down: 16.68
> Days Down: 0
> Monthly Total in Hours: 16.68


Argus by default will give you something like this:

Top:World_Reachability:Major_Web_Sites:Ping_www.google.com User: scotth  
 
name Ping 
status up 

Status: up since Mon 9 Jan 02:52:51 2006
  start elapsed time % up % down times down 
Today    Mon 20 Feb 00:00:00 2006 23:00:00    100.0   0.00 0 
Yesterday    Sun 19 Feb 00:00:00 2006 1d 0:00:00    100.0   0.00 0 
2 Days Ago    Sat 18 Feb 00:00:00 2006 1d 0:00:00    100.0   0.00 0 
This Month    Wed 1 Feb 00:00:00 2006 19d 22:59:58    100.0   0.00 0 
Last Month    Sun 1 Jan 00:00:00 2006 30d 23:58:54    99.87   0.13 1 
2 Months Ago    Thu 1 Dec 00:00:00 2005 1m 0:00:00    100.0   0.00 0 
This Year    Sun 1 Jan 00:00:00 2006 1m 19d 22:58:52    99.92   0.08 1 
Last Year    Sat 1 Jan 00:00:00 2005 11m 29d 13:05:14    99.68   0.32 9 
2 Years Ago    Thu 4 Nov 21:23:11 2004 1m 26d 1:07:37    100.0   0.00 0 
 


> We need these reports so that we can compute in case the 
> customer asks for some rebates, with their bandwidth usage.
> 
> Now the one who created the program went away and when 
> something went wrong, we weren't able to fix it. Now, we are 
> just looking for opensource tools that can do the same. Note, 
> that since the program uses mrtg, mrtg uses snmp to monitor 
> if the link is down for a certain period of time. Most of the 
> devices on remote sites of our customers are snmp-enabled... 
> Someone suggested using argus.
> 
> Can I use argus to produce reports that look exactly like that above?
> 
> 

Dunno how much customization you can do but others may be able to shed more
light on it.

Scott