Hi all,
I have been fighting with reports for the past week and have made great progress. I spent years with solarwinds thinking you could not auto email out graphical reports, but now with views, it makes it fairly simple, if not a little cumbersome. So, my new problem.. i have a request to send out a daily report, showing a line chart of interface utilisation, for around 300 interfaces. But the DATA required must be between 8am and 8PM, not a full day.
To do this, i have created several custom views, each with a selection of these interfaces (if you have too many on one page, the email system crashes). So i have 30 interfaces per view. To create the template chart, I just changed the settings on the default interface utilisation graph, and set the time frame to “custom”, and set the start time to 8am and finish to 8pm. Refreshed the page and grabbed the HTML for the Image and used that in my custom view.
The problem is, when you then move to the next day, the time frame is actually a DATA and TIME< not just the TIME< so to do the next day you have to modify all of the custom HTML.... how do I configure a TIME-FRAME, not a TIME/DATE limitation?
While typing this, i have thought of a bodge job... I can modify the sample time to be “last 12 hours”, and run the scheduled report email at around 8pm. This way i get the correct sample time. It is clunky but it should work... but i will have to stagger the emails as NPM never handles too many reports being generated at the same time.... it has a habit of getting the data it can, and sending out what it has rather than waiting for the transaction to complete.
Any thoughts?
