You are certainly right about that Adam; everyone has a different need when it comes to reporting.

I agree, it would be very challenging to create, sustain and support a reporting function that also checked enough boxes to justify the time spent. Instead of "canned" reporting though, which is where I'd think many of the, "Ok, now can you do this.." type requests would come from, perhaps consider a report-writer function that would allow users to create their own structured queries using a GUI "search tool" that would only allow the use of query clauses and limiters that you know to work and be correct..

Anyway, just my thoughts and two unsolicited cents :). You fine humans enjoy your weekend!

Thanks,

Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP
Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional


From: Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:16 PM
To: Ryan Huff via observium
Cc: Ryan Huff
Subject: Re: [Observium] Printing reports
 
The problem is that everyone has vastly divergent requirements, and it's super difficult to produce something which hits more than a small percentage of users.

We try to build things in a way that they don't generate unending "can you just add/change this one tiny thing..." requests, because that gets very inefficient to maintain.

I think the best way to do this stuff is for the few who need it to just build it from graphs and db data, since we don't have nearly the resources to build or maintain a configurable report generation system.

Adam.

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On 8 Feb 2019, at 14:51, Ryan Huff via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:
That’s better than what I did to satisfy my urgent need (which is what drove this thread originally), I just took screenshots into a Word Doc and exported PDF.

Your method would be better than that, and something I could consider as a work around I suppose. If it becomes a more regular need of mine or I’m asked to automate it, I might invest the time to make a proper plugin or one-off the code. For now though, I think it’s sorted.

Thanks mate

-Ryan

On Feb 8, 2019, at 08:25, Andre Geißler via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

I create reports on my own.

Some customers want to see e.g. availability, CPU, RAM, disk usage on a monthly basis. Other like to have port utilizations.

I download graphs from observium with wget (http://observium/graph.php?device=$d&type=$t&from=$a&to=$e&$width=$w&height=$h) put them together in simple html files and convert them with htmldoc to pdf files.

Not the smartest way but it works.

Andre

Am 08.02.19 um 02:38 schrieb Adam Armstrong via observium:
no, ignore that file. it doesn't do anything. :)

we don't do reports because not a single person who has every asked for a report has ever actually been able to articulate what would be in a report.

adam.

On 2019-02-07 23:29:37, Ryan Huff via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

Using latest CE..

Just making sure I haven’t missed something in the docs and config guides.. I do not see a way to print any type of reports/PDFs.. but I do see a ../html/pdf.php which looks like it would do that.

Did I miss a page in the docs?

-Ryan
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