Events consoles · Centreon documentation

Some of this interfaces are deprecated and replaced by the Resources Status page.

This new page aims to regroup all the experiences you can find in these interfaces.

For new installations, deprecated pages are automatically hidden. It is possible to display them by selecting the option Show deprecated pages in the preferences specific to each user from the menu Administration > Parameters > My Account.

This chapter presents the different interfaces allowing to visualize the status of resources.

Generic actions

By default, during viewing of statuses of hosts or services, the monitoring data is refreshed automatically (15 seconds by default). Nevertheless, several icons can be used to check the refreshing of the data. The table below summarizes the functions of these icons:

Icon	Description
	Serves to refresh the results manually.
	Serves to put the automatic data refreshment into pause.
	Serves to restart automatic data refreshment.

Hosts (deprecated)

This interface is deprecated and replaced by the Resources Status page and the events list.

To view the status of hosts, go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Hosts menu

Columns description

S: Displays the severity level of the host
Hosts: Displays the name of the host
- The following icon indicates that the notifications for this host are disabled:
- The following icon can be used to view all the performance graphs for this host:
- The following icon allows to access to a predefined url configured:
Status: Serves to view the status of the host
IP Address: Indicates the IP address of the host
Last Check: Displays the date and the time of the last check
Duration: Displays the time that the host a has kept its current status
Hard State Duration: Displays the time that the host a has kept its current hard state (does not appear when viewing of all the hosts)
Tries: Displays the number of tries before confirming the state
Status information: Displays the message explaining the status of the host

The severity column and the associated filter appear if at least one object displayed has a severity level.

Available filters

You can filter the result presented via the following filters:

Host Status:
- To view the hosts with a problem but not acknowledged or not in downtime, choose Unhandled Problems.
- To view all the hosts with a problem, choose Host Problems.
- To view all the hosts, choose All.
Host: Can be used to filter by name of host via an SQL LIKE type search.
Status: Can be used to filter by the status of hosts.
Severity: Can be used to filter by severity.
Poller: Can be used to filter the hosts by poller. Only the hosts of the poller selected will be displayed.
Hostgroup: Can be used to filter by host group. Only the hosts of the host group selected will be displayed.

The search on text fields only starts after entry of at least 3 characters.

Host groups

To view the status of host groups, go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Hostgroups Summary menu

Columns description

Host Group: List of available groups of hosts
Hosts Status: Allows to display the number of hosts in UP, DOWN, UNREACHABLE or in PENDING status
Services Status: Allows to display the number of services in OK, WARNING, CRITICAL or in PENDING status

Available filters

Hostgroup: Can be used to filter by name of group of hosts via an SQL LIKE type search.
Poller: Can be used to filter the hosts by poller. Only the hosts of the poller selected will be displayed.

Host details (deprecated)

This interface is deprecated and replaced by the Resources Status page and the host panel.

When you click on the name of a host, you access to the details page of the resource.

4 tabs are available:

Service Status: List of host services and their associated status
Performances: List of performance graphs for each service
Host Informations: Host details
Comments: Host comments available

Status details

Description of attributes available for host details:

Host Status: Displays the status of the host.
Status information: Displays the information of the status of the host.
Performance Data: Displays performance data associated to the check.
Poller Name: Name of the server polling the host.
Current Attempt: Displays the number of attempts before status validation.
State Type: Displays the type of state (‘SOFT' or ‘HARD').
Last Check: Displays the last check of the host.
Next Check: Displays the next scheduled check of the host.
Last State Change: Displays when the status of the host changed.
Current State Duration: Displays the date and time from which the host is in the present state.
Last Notification: Displays the sent date and time of the last notification.
Next Notification: Displays the sent date and time of the next notification.
Current Notification Number: Displays the number of sent notifications.
Is This Host Flapping?: Indicates if the host is in flapping state.
In Scheduled Downtime?: Indicates if the host is in scheduled downtime.
Timezone: The timezone of the host.

Options

Option allow to enable / disable properties of the host:

Active Checks: The active check method of the host.
Passive Checks: The passive check method of the host.
Notifications: The notification process of the host.
Obsess Over Host: The obsess over host command execution of the host.
Event Handler: The automated reactions process of the host.
Flap Detection: The flapping detection process of the host.

Links

The Links container allows to display host's membership of host groups and categories.

Notifications

The Notifications container allows to display the contacts and contactgroups linked to the host which will receive notifications.

Services (deprecated)

This interface is deprecated and replaced by the Resources Status page and the events list.

To view the status of service, go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Services menu.

Columns description

S: Displays the severity level of the service.
Host: Displays the name of host.
Services: Displays the name of service.
- The following icon indicates that the notifications for this service are disabled:
- The following icon can be used to view the performance graph for this service:
- The following icon allows to access to a predefined url configured:
Duration: Displays the duration of the actual status.
Hard State Duration: Displays the duration of the validated non-ok status.
Last Check: Displays the date and time of the last check.
Tries: Displays the number of attempts before status validation.
Status information: Displays the message explaining the status of the service.

The severity column and the associated filter appear if at least one object displayed has a severity level.

The Hard State Duration doesn't appear if you select All value for Service Status filter.

Available filters

Service Status:
- To view the services with a problem but not acknowledged or not in downtime, choose Unhandled Problems.
- To view all the services with a problem, choose Host Problems.
- To view all the services, choose All.
Status: Can be used to filter by the status of services.
Severity: Can be used to filter by severity.
Poller: Can be used to filter the services by poller. Only the services of the poller selected will be displayed.
Host: Can be used to filter by name of host via an SQL LIKE type search.
Service: Can be used to filter by name of service via an SQL LIKE type search.
Hostgroup: Can be used to filter by host group. Only the hosts of the host group selected will be displayed.
Servicegroup: Can be used to filter by service group. Only the services of the service group selected will be displayed.
Output: Can be used to filter by the result of the check.

Services Grid

To view all services (short by host) in any status, go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Services Grid menu and choose Details for Display filter:

To view the number of services (short by host and by status), choose Summary Display filter:

Services by Hostgroup

To view the all services (short by host's groups) in any status, go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Services by Hostgroup menu and choose Details for Display filter:

To view the number of services (short by host's groups), choose Summary for Display filter:

Services by Servicegroup

To view the all services (short by services groups), go into the Monitoring > Status Details > Services by Servicegroup menu and choose Details for Display filter:

To view the number of services (short by services groups), choose Summary for Display filter:

Service Details (deprecated)

This interface is deprecated and replaced by the Resources Status page and the service panel.

When you click on a service, the following screen appears:

Status details

Description of attributes available for service details:

Service Status: Displays the status of the service.
Status information: Displays the information of the status of the service.
Extended status information: Displays long output of the service.
Performance Data: Displays performance data associated to the check.
Current Attempt: Displays the number of attempts before status validation.
State Type: Displays the type of state (‘SOFT' or ‘HARD').
Last Check Type: Indicates if the last type of check is ‘active' or ‘passive'.
Last Check: Displays the last check of the service.
Next Scheduled Active Check: Displays the next scheduled check of the service.
Latency: Displays the latency in seconds between the scheduled check and the real check execution.
Check Duration: Displays the execution time of the check.
Last State Change: Displays when the status of the service changed.
Current State Duration: Displays the date and time from which the host is in the present state.
Last Service Notification: Displays the sent date and time of the last notification.
Current Notification Number: Displays the number of sent notifications.
Is This Service Flapping?: Indicates if the service is in flapping state.
Percent State Change: Displays the percentage change of state.
In Scheduled Downtime?: Indicates if the host is in scheduled downtime.
Last Update: Displays the date and time of the last information update.
Executed Check Command Line: Regarding your ACL rights, you may have access to the executed command line. Password will be replaced by *

Detailed graph and status graph

The Detailed Graph and Status Graph allow to display performance graphs and the history chart statutes for this service.

Host and Service Shortcuts

View host status page: Allows to access to the host details page.
Configure host : Allows to access to the configuration page of the host.
View logs for host : Allows to access to the event logs of the host.
View report for host : Allows to acces to the availability rate report of the host.
View graphs for host : Allows to access to all performance graphs of services of the host.
Configure service: Allows to access to the configuration page of the service.
View logs for service : Allows to access to the event logs of the service.
View report for service : Allows to acces to the availability rate report of the service.

Service commands

Re-schedule the next check for this service: Allows to Re-schedule the next check for the service.
Re-schedule the next check for this service (forced): Allows to Re-schedule the next check for the service, event if the check period is invalid.
Schedule downtime for this service: Allows to schedule downtime for the service.
Add a comment for this service: Allows to add a comment for the service.

Options

Option allow to enable / disable properties of the service:

Active Checks: The active check method of the service.
Passive Checks: The passive check method of the service.
Notifications: The notification process of the service.
Event Handler: The automated reactions process of the service.
Flap Detection: The flapping detection process of the service.
Obsess Over Service: The obsess over service command execution of the service.

Notifications

The Notifications container allows to display the contacts and contactgroups linked to the host which will receive notifications.