14. Create a Custom Report

Pandora FMS offers us the possibility of custom display forvisualizing monitored data in a personalized way through reports that can be programmedscheduled tofor beemail sent,delivery in various formats, exported to PDFPDF, or displayedviewed in real time.

To create a custom report, gowe towill access the menu "Reporting"Operation ->→ "Reporting → Custom reports"reports → Reports, where youthe mayCreate findreport the+ button "Createwill report"be foravailable creatingto reports.

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Firstfirst step will be to define a name, group, write accessaccess, orand whether the reportoption willto bemake it an interactive report or not. 

Non-interactive reports are reports that, due to their large size, shouldare ratherbetter beoff programmed,being sincescheduled itonly, takesas somethey take time to generate them.and will therefore have limited visualization via the Web Console.

Once youwe fillhave filled in thesethis data withaccording to the desired requirements, we see that the uppertop right menu will offeroffers new options,possibilities, thanksallowing us to which you may start adding different items from the monitoring items.we are conducting.

You may see that, in addition to the element editor, there are three wizards that will help you with report creation.

The first option is generalView report to visualize the report, followed by:

• Report task: Even if the report is interactive, it can always be scheduled, periodically or not, for email delivery or local storage (or on a shared network drive). Schedules created with this option can be modified (or deleted) in the menu Operation → Reporting → Custom reports → Scheduled.
• Advanced options: Where you can modify the cover page, page orientation, etc. (PDF format).
• Global: A wizard with two powerful and fast options to create Top N reports (General or Exceptions); the search for agents and modules offers filtering by regex and other useful options.
• SLA-Wizard: A dedicated wizard for Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance reports.
• Wizard: To quickly generate the most commonly used report types (alerts, events, grouped, etc.).
• Item editor: Where you can add more and more report types (remember, you can always mark as Non-interactive if the report becomes too large).
• List items: To edit or delete elements added in the previous option.
• Main data: To edit the same fields specified during the report creation.

Below is a brief description of some of the options mentioned above.

Wizard

General wizard that allows you,us, for example, to add graphs offrom different agents/modules to the report:

 

TheThis wizard allows you to easily create other types of elements within the report, such as showingdisplaying maximum, minimumminimum, or average module values inof modules over a time interval, a list of triggered alertsalerts, or generated events. 

SLA Wizard:

This wizard allows us to create SLA report items automatically. You will be able tocan choose the value validity ranges for the values of the modules to be selected. This feature will allowallows you to check the % of time percentage that a module has keptmaintained values within specific ranges. If no thresholds are not defined, they will be dynamically adjustedadjust to the criticality thresholds of each module'smodule. criticalityIn thresholds.short, Youyou will be able to know, in short,know what % of the time percentagethey it performedbehaved as expected.

Global

 Grouped reports are also available:

• Global: In this reportsection section,of youthe mayreport, we can create Exception, GeneralGeneral, or Top N elements easilysimply throughby using a wizard.
• Exception: This shows modulevalues valuesfrom several modules that meetsatisfy a logical operation (e.g.:, show the occupation% percentageoccupancy of those links that have an activity higher than 100KB/100 KB/Sec).
• General: It showsShows values offrom several modules sorted (ascending, descending, by agent name) and/or grouped by name.
• Top N: It showsShows N values classifieddiscriminated by maximum, minimumminimum, or average over the total ofmodules addedadded, modules,sorted inascending, ascending or descending orderdescending, or by agent name.

ThatIn waythis youway, maywe can add different modules from different agents, beingwhile also possible to choosechoosing the operation to performbe onperformed for each module: sum, average, minimum, maximum.

Item editor

In thethis tabtab, "Itemwe Editor" you maycan find more specific elements, such as the possibility of creating inventory elements for yourour reports. 

ThatThis will allow youus to see thedisplay hardware and software data offor the agents youwe select, ifprovided they have inventory valuesvalue collected.collection enabled.

Once the reports have beenare configured, youwe maycan seeview them thanks tousing the "View report"report iconicon. at the upper left corner.

In the case of thisour report, these are the results.results:

 

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