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  • Introduction
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  • Download
  • Installation of a Central server

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    • Using virtual machines (VMs)
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  • Web And Post Installation
  • Installation of a Poller

    • Using Centreon ISO
    • Using packages

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  • What is Centreon CEIP?

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  • About Monitoring
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  • Groups & Categories
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  • Anomaly detection
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    • Introduction
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  • Auto Remediation
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  • Concepts
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  • Manage alerts
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    • Concept
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    • Dependencies
    • Escalation
    • Flapping
    • To go further
  • Ticketing
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Performance graphs

  • Charts managment
  • Graph template
  • Curves
  • Virtual metrics

Service Mapping

  • Introduction to Centreon BAM
  • Guide

    • Manage Business Activities
    • Monitor Business Activities
    • Report Business Activities
    • Settings
    • Widgets

    Administrate

    • Install Centreon BAM extension
    • Update the extension
    • Upgrade the extension
    • Migrate the extension
    • Install on a Remote Server

Graphical views

  • Introduction to Centreon MAP
  • Guide

    • Create a standard view
    • Create a geo view
    • Display views
    • Share a view

    Administrate

    • Install Centreon MAP extension
    • Update the extension
    • Upgrade the extension
    • Migrate the extension
    • Configure
    • Install on a Remote server
    • Advanced configuration
    • Secure your MAP platform
    • Known issues
    • Troubleshooter

Reporting

  • Introduction to Centreon MBI
  • Guide

    • Generate reports
    • Available reports
    • Widgets
    • Configure
    • Concepts
    • Report development

    Administrate

    • Install Centreon MBI extension
    • Update the extension
    • Upgrade the extension
    • Migrate the extension
    • Backup & restore

Administration

  • Secure your platform
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    • Installing a Centreon HA 4-nodes cluster
    • Monitoring Centreon-HA
    • Operating guide
    • Updating Centreon-HA platform
    • Upgrade from Centreon-Failover to Centreon-HA
    • Troubleshooting guide
  • Backup
  • Knowledge Base
  • Logging configuration changes
  • Platform statistics

Update, Upgrade & Migrate

    Update

    • Update a Centreon 20.10 platform

    Upgrade

    • Introduction to upgrade
    • Upgrade from Centreon 20.04
    • Upgrade from Centreon 19.10
    • Upgrade from Centreon 19.04
    • Upgrade from Centreon 18.10
    • Upgrade from Centreon 3.4

    Migrate

    • Introduction
    • Migrate from a Centreon 20.x platform
    • Migrate from a Centreon 3.4 platform
    • Nagios Reader to Centreon CLAPI
    • Migrate a platform with Poller Display module

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  • Introduction to Plugin Packs
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Generate reports

This chapters describes features you need to manipulate to be able to generate & manage reports.

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Jobs

A job is an entity that you configure to be able to generate a report and should be configured in terms of:

  • A report design to use
  • Centreon objects (hosts, services, host groups, service groups, business activities, etc.)
  • A specific period (last month, current month, yesterday etc.. )

Job list

The following menu lists jobs according to their state: running, scheduled, failed, stopped or finished: Reporting > Business Intelligence > Configuration > Jobs

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Description of columns:

ColumnDescription
NameName of scheduled job
Report designDesign to be used for report
PeriodPeriod covered for generated report
Output formatExport formats of generated report (PDF, Excel, Powerpoint,CSV, DOC)
Execution timeExecution date and time of scheduled job
OptionsNumber of job duplications if the duplication option is selected in the menu "More Actions"

In the "Name" column on the table, an icon is displayed according on the job state:

IconStatus
imageJob stopped
imageJob scheduled
imageJob being executed
imageJob ended (only for a single-use job)
imageJob failed or canceled

Search filters

Search filters are available for quick access to jobs:

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The "Search" field allows to filter by job name and "Job state" filters by job state.

Description of the different states:

StateDescription
ScheduledJob planned, will be executed
RunningJob running, the report is being generated
FailedJob failed
StoppedJob stopped, will not be executed
FinishedJob is completed, report has been generated. This state appears only for single jobs. Cyclic jobs return to the "Scheduled" state once the report is generated
AllAll states displayed

Refreshing the job list

The following icons allow you to dynamically update the job list:

IconDescription
imageManually refresh the list and state of each job.
image imageStart or stop the automatic refresh of the page

More action menu

The action menu allows you to perform a variety of tasks on one or more jobs in the list.

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The following table describes the different options:

ActionDescription
TrashSends the selected jobs to the trash.
StopStops the selected jobs.
RescheduleSchedules/Runs the selected jobs.
DuplicateDuplicates the selected jobs. All settings and relations will also be duplicated.

Adding / Editing a job

To generate a report, you need to create a job by clicking on "Add" in the job listing page. The job configuration is done in two main steps (tabs):

  • Select the report design you want to use (see all the designs available here)
  • Select the perimeter on which to generate the report

Two optionals steps (tabs) can be done to :

  • Publish the report
  • Tune the job

The following menu is used for adding a new scheduled job:

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1. Configuration
2. Report parameters
3. Report publication (Optional)
4. Tunning (Optional)

A report generation job must be linked to a report design ("Report design").

Several report ouput formats are available:

  • Acrobat PDF
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • CSV: Only the first BIRT Data Set of the report can be exported in CSV format. Usually, this format requires a specially designed BIRT report.

Reports can be generated in other languages. Currently available languages are:

  • French
  • US English

The icon on the right of the selection menu allows you to refresh the list of available report languages in the case you want to add translation by yourself

Scheduling

A job can be executed in 3 different ways: immediately, scheduled for later or in a cyclic way.

Immediate execution

The job will start when saving the form.

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SCHEDULED > One shot

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CYCLIC

This parameter causes the job to run on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

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For cyclic jobs, the period is calculated automatically according to job frequency:

  • Daily reports cover the previous day.
  • Weekly reports cover the previous week.
  • Monthly reports cover the previous month.

The "Report Parameters" menu is used to set the specific parameters for the report design.

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This part of the menu changes according to the report design selected under the "Configuration" tab of the scheduled job.

There are three types of fields in this form:

  • Text fields

  • Radio buttons

  • Selection and multi-selection menus for the following resources:

    • Hosts
    • Metrics
    • Host groups
    • Service groups
    • Service categories
    • Time periods
    • Business groups (Centreon BAM module is required)
    • Business activities (Centreon BAM module is required)
    • Images that will be inserted in the reports (logo for example).

Note: A value must be specified for each field in this menu except for the multi-selection parameter when metrics are excluded.

By defaut, all metrics will be applied.

Once a report is generated, it can be automatically published using pre-defined rules. When creating a job, you can create several rules under the tab "Publication" (refer to the publication rules section chapter for more information on the various report publication protocols).

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The "Tuning" menu contains three parameters:

  • Report color theme: Color theme management has been implemented, allowing you to choose a color palette. Seven default themes are available: Maroon, Orange, Blue, Ice, Green, Multicolor-1 and Multicolor-2.

    Theme color doesn't apply to business activity report

    Available color palettes are:

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    The default color theme can be changed through the Centreon MBI General options menu. For more information, see the General options chapter General options

  • Multiplier coefficient of the scheduled task: Each report design has a weight. A scheduled task can multiply this weight according to the parameters used to run the report design. The sum of the weight of the running tasks can not exceed the maximum load the reporting engine can handle (defined in General Options).

  • Administrator e-mail notification: Enable or disable notification when scheduled job is generated.

Accessing generated reports

After a scheduled job is executed, a new report is generated and then stored on the Centreon server. You can then view or download it using the following menu Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > Archives

The following table lists the reports generated:

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ColumnDescription
NameName of the report
PeriodPeriod in which data was selected to build the statistics
Date of generationDate the report was generated
DownloadLink for downloading the file

Search filters

You can search in any of these criteria:

  • Period: on what period was choosen to generate the report
  • Date of generation: when was the report generated
  • Frequency (daily, monthly, etc.)
  • Search by job name (applies to the "Name" column)
  • Search by report design

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Action menu

Use the action menu to move the reports that are no longer needed to the trash:

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Job groups

Job groups are used to manage user access to reports & mail publication

Job group list

The following menu lists all job groups available on Centreon MBI: Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > Configuration | Job groups

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More action menu

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ActionDescription
- DeleteDelete group
- DuplicateDuplicate group

Add / Edit

A job group can be added or modified through the following menu:

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Description of menu fields:

ColumnDescription
NameJob group name
DescriptionJob group description
Linked jobJobs linked to group

Report design

The design of the reports you generate with Centreon MBI originate from ".rptdesign" files, which are created with the open-source tool Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT).

For generating a report, a report design should be configured in terms of:

  • Centreon objects (hosts, services, host groups, service groups, business activities, etc.)
  • A specific period (monthly report, weekly report, etc.).

Each report design can have a several parameters, which must be defined in the Centreon interface.

Report design list

The following menu lists the report designs available in Centreon MBI Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > Configuration > Report Design

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Description of the above table:

ColumnDescription
NameName of report design
DescriptionShort description of report design
StateStatus of report design (Enabled/Disabled)
WeightReport weight: report generation work load index.

Add / edit

A report design can be edited or a new one can be added if you develop your own reports (using BIRT)

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Description of the menu fields:

FieldsDescription
NameName of report design
Report Source fileName of the ". rptdesign" BIRT file corresponding to the report design. This file is stored in "reports/" directory of "Centreon MBI" installation directory.
DescriptionShort description of report design.
XML parameters fileEach report can have several specific parameters. This .xml file defines those parameters.
WeightReport weight: report generation work load index.
Report design groupsReport design group linked to report design for ACL management.

Only Centreon administrators are authorised to edit report designs or add a new one. Users without privileges only have read-only access to existing report designs.

Action menu

The menu "More actions" allows you to perform certain actions on report designs:

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ActionDescription
TrashMove file to trash.
ActivateEnable a report design for report generation.
DeactivateDisable a report design for report generation.

Report design groups

Report design group list

The following menu lists all report design groups available on Centreon MBI Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > Configuration > Report design groups

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Add / Edit

The following menu is used for adding or editing a report design group:

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ColumnDescription
NameName of report design group
DescriptionShort description of report design group
Linked report designsReport designs linked to the group

Logo

You can store images in the Centreon MBI configuration for reuse in future reports to be generated. Use the selection menu to incorporate an image (or logo) into the desired report design.

Regardless of the size of the image (or logo) it must have an aspect ratio of 4:4 to fit into the required space.

Image list

The following menu lists all the images available:

Reporting > Business Intelligence > Configuration > Logo

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Description of columns:

ColumnDescription
NameImage name
PreviewDisplay loaded image
TypeImage format: PNG, JPEG or GIF
SizeImage size (width x height)

Add/Edit images

To add a new image, click on "Add" then fill in the following menu fields:

image

Description of fields:

ColumnDescription
NameName of image. No special characters allowed
ImageImage source file

Action menu

Use the following menu to delete images from the list. You cannot, however, delete images already linked to jobs generating reports.

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Trash

All deleted report designs or scheduled jobs are first sent to the trash, as a security measure, before being permanently deleted. Use the following menu to access the trash:

Reporting > Monitoring Business Intelligence > Administration > Trash

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Properties of the trash:

  • Once in the trash, an element will not appear in any other menu.
  • Scheduling is stopped for all jobs in the trash.
  • Deleting a report design or scheduled job does not cause any linked PDF reports to be deleted.

Items can be restored or definitively deleted through this menu:

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Search filters

The following search filters allow you to search for an item in the trash:

  • "Search", filter by element name
  • "Object type", filter by element type

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