Introduction to Centreon MBI

Complete reporting with Centreon MBI

The reporting capabilities in Centreon rely on the Centreon Monitoring Business Intelligence (MBI) extension. You also have simple reporting capabilities described below.

Centreon MBI is a Centreon extension that requires a valid license. To purchase one and retrieve the necessary repositories, contact Centreon.

Centreon Monitoring Business Intelligence (MBI) is a software tool designed to help business users make critical decisions and to facilitate management of an IT environment. Centreon MBI analyzes data from monitored events, performance counters and capacity accessed from the Centreon Enterprise Monitoring Solution (EMS), providing you with full visibility of your infrastructures and application activities through ITIL compliant reporting.

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Centreon MBI provides a full package of standard reports that address:

• Capacity planning and management
• Availability management
• SLA (Service Level Agreement) management
• Performance management.

Here are some examples of reports available in Centreon MBI: Reports examples

or simply create your own reporting dashboard using our widgets.

Main features:

• Scheduling and generation of standalone reports in PDF, Excel, Word and Powerpoint formats
• Visualization of web & interactive statistics using reporting widgets that are Centreon-compatible
• Publication of reports by e-mail and other standard protocols (FTP, CIFS, etc.)
• Access control to reports
• Administration and user interface integrated into Centreon
• Report development libraries

Simple reporting

The availability reports concerning objects monitored via the Centreon Web interface can display the availability rates of hosts, a hostgroup, or a servicegroup over a selected period.

To access the availability reports:

• Go to Reporting > Dashboard.
• In the left menu, click Host.
• Select a host from the Host list.

• The Reporting Period lets you select a predefined period or define it manually using From to to fields.
• The Host state table displays the availability rates of objects.
• The State Breakdowns For Host Services table displays the availability of linked objects.
• The timeline provides a quick and intuitive overview of the status of the object.

Click a day in the timeline to obtain the report for that day:

It is also possible to view web reports:

• The groups of hosts: Click Host Groups in the left menu
• The groups of services: Click Service Groups in the left menu

The CSV icon is used to export data to a CSV file.

You can also see the availability of a service by clicking the service name in the host or servicegroup report.