Hello all,
I have a question for you about the idea to separate the cpu column of the uptime alert.
The idea would be to create a new column called uptime which will be yellow or red if it reboots.
The advantage is for history. When you actually look to the history to find quickly when the server has rebooted in the past, it is not easy to know if it was a reboot or a cpu alert, you have to click on each different alert status to check the content. But, with this new column, even if the width of each BB page is larger than before, it would be so easy to list all reboots of a host.
I implemented this in BBWin and it is very appreciated by my colleagues, so that's why I post the message to get the opinion of you.
I think putting uptime alert in the cpu column was inherited from big brother so may be it could be changed depending the agreement of Henrik and hobbit users.
Henrik, what do you think about that ?
Regards,
-- Etienne GRIGNON
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:58:37PM +0200, Etienne Grignon wrote:
I think putting uptime alert in the cpu column was inherited from big brother so may be it could be changed depending the agreement of Henrik and hobbit users.
Henrik, what do you think about that ?
I think it's a good idea. The "cpu" column really is a bit overloaded; it tracks cpu utilisation, it tracks reboots, and with the hobbit client it also warns if the system clock goes astray.
However, the display can get a bit crowded with all of the things we monitor now. So I'm thinking that maybe it would be nice to also implement a kind of status column which is only visible when it isn't green - or perhaps until it's been green for some time. The "reboot" status would be a prime candidate for such a status - you normally dont care about it, but when it happens you might want to be made aware of it.
Another way of getting the display less crowded would be to have "collapsible" columns, i.e. several statuses would be collapsed into a single red/green/yellow "dot" on the webpage.
Just some ideas.
Regards, Henrik
On 8/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:58:37PM +0200, Etienne Grignon wrote:
I think putting uptime alert in the cpu column was inherited from big brother so may be it could be changed depending the agreement of Henrik and hobbit users.
Henrik, what do you think about that ?
I think it's a good idea. The "cpu" column really is a bit overloaded; it tracks cpu utilisation, it tracks reboots, and with the hobbit client it also warns if the system clock goes astray.
However, the display can get a bit crowded with all of the things we monitor now. So I'm thinking that maybe it would be nice to also implement a kind of status column which is only visible when it isn't green - or perhaps until it's been green for some time. The "reboot" status would be a prime candidate for such a status - you normally dont care about it, but when it happens you might want to be made aware of it.
Excellent idea. Dynamic column!! Wow. It would help a lot with my crowded columns . Ofcourse a red alert will make me aware of it if I choose it to show up only at red. I would like to see the same feature for `msgs' column. Also may be a button or something to show static view with all columns and (default) dynamic view.
Another way of getting the display less crowded would be to have
"collapsible" columns, i.e. several statuses would be collapsed into a single red/green/yellow "dot" on the webpage.
It is a pretty good idea too, unless you have a static/dynamic button as I mentioned above.
I think dynamic view fits better with hobbit :-)
Just some ideas.
Regards, Henrik
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On 9/2/06, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
It is a pretty good idea too, unless you have a static/dynamic button as I mentioned above.
I think dynamic view fits better with hobbit :-)
I'd go with a dynamic view, where you can hide (chosen) columns when they're green. I've got many relatively low importance checks that I'd happily not have showing green on the screen by default - it's only the ones that are customer critical that it's nice (for the PHB) to have showing all the time.
Personally, my primary view is the "All non-green view". That tells me everything that I really care about.
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On 9/2/06, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, my primary view is the "All non-green view". That tells me everything that I really care about.
Same here. Our monitoring guys only ever watch the "All non-green view". Each group recognises their own hostnames and they've got so much going on they don't like to spend the time clicking through the other views.
That's not to say that a dynamic page isn't a good idea, just that it probably won't make much difference here...
Ralph Mitchell
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