Generating Availability Reports

The Availability Reporting function collects and analyzes data from the event logs of monitored servers and then generates configurable reports that users can view and customize to suit the needs of their organization. Users can use these reports to identify the causes for planned and unplanned downtime and take preemptive actions to decrease downtime in the future.

Availability reports calculate the metrics of server availability and a standard report is configured to display the resulting data. Each configuration includes tables or graphs with information about the availability and reliability of servers, devices, and services in the monitored environment. Users can enter parameters, such as specific periods of time, to filter the data presented.

Availability reports provide the following advantages:

• Determine whether monitored servers are meeting their availability and reliability objectives.

• Filter reports to track trends by viewing information collected over a specific length of time, such as over a period of months or years.

• Filter reports to view information on a specific subset of monitored servers.

• Identify the best and worst performing computers for a particular area. For example, you can identify which servers suffer the most or least number of system failures.

• Identify problem areas, such as a particular application or operating system version that stops responding.

• Gather information about operating systems and applications.

To generate an Availability Report:

1. Log in to Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution.

   The Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution page appears.

2. Click the Advanced Monitoring tab.

   The Advanced Monitoring page appears.

3. From the Reports menu, select Availability Reports.

   The Availability Reports page appears.

4. From the Configuration Item list, select the Configuration Item (CI) whose data you want to use to create the report.

5. From the Probe list, select the probe that you want to report upon.

6. In the Start/End Time fields, specify the date and time over which you want the report data to cover.

7. From the Interval list, specify how often you want to create the report.

8. Click GENERATE to create the report using the parameters you specified in the steps above.

   Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution generates an availability report similar to Figure 7-1.

   Figure 7-1 Example of an Availability Report