Business Process Module - Reporting & Trends?

Icinga Modules
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It would be great if we could report on the availability or performance of a business process.

Business process 1 has been available for 99.999% over the past month, year, 5 years etc… or it has been available but degraded 8% of the time over the same time periods.

Is this something that the module could possibly do or are we talking about a complete re-write or not even possible to do?

It would be valuable to businesses to know these things for the overall business process and its performance and availability.

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there is some way to do it with the early version of the reporting.

If you check the businessprocess as a host or service check in icinga you can get the reporting to report for it.

3

This requires historical data which the business process module has no notion of. Adding this just for this purpose seems unreasonable to me. Especially since what Kevin said is absolutely a fine alternative. :+1:

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Kevin,

I added the report module and ido report module and all the requirements.

How can I check the business process as a host or service and report on it?

5

there is an integrated check command in icinga2 called icingacli-businessprocess you can pass it the businessprocess name and it will tell you the status.

6

I didn’t know about this. Thanks!

7

When creating a service check for the business process, I created a template for the check command and included the fields I needed to target the business process name.

When I actually create a service check from that template it requires a host to tie it to… there are no listings for the business process in the drop-down (using director).

What am I missing here?

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I tend to create a dummy host for each business process that has a attribute with the name of the process and uses the businessprocess check as the host check. this makes it rather easy to do this.

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How do you do the dummy host exactly?

Director requires hostname and I think host address as well.

How do you tie the host to the business process? You mentioned an attribute, can you explain this in more detail?

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let’s say I have a host like this:

object Host "<businessprocess name>" {
    import "business_template"

    display_name = "<businessprocess name>"
    address = "127.0.0.1"
    vars.businessprocess = "<businessprocess name>"

The business_template has the check_command in it with a reference to the vars.businessprocess

With this you will be able to always check your business process.
Important sidenote: Those checks need to always run on the icinga2 master.