Hi,
I'm currently trialing ipMonitor and like what I see, but I need the ability to perform my own reports and queries on the results returned by the monitors for our internal reporting. Is it possible to configure ipMonitor to store its data into a SQL database for historical reporting?
If this isn't possible does anyone know if can we interrogate ipMonitor directly via Excel?
Thanks.
Marcus
This is not currently possible with ipMonitor. If that type of historical reporting is critical to your organization, you might want to check out Orion insteadhttp://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?viewid=119&netobject=
That can be done through their SOAP interface. I have a small Windows Service that polls the monitors every 30 seconds and stores them to SQL. It works great.
dlesko
To prioritize this request, I'd like to better understand your use-cases and environment. Can you help me out by answering the following questions?
1. Which monitor types are you using in your environment?
2. How many monitors do you have deployed?
3. What specific reports are you trying to pull that you're not able to do with the built-in reporting?
Hi Chris,
this is something we would be interested in as well.....
We use a wide range of monitors
at this stage we have 780 monitors on 300 odd devices, across two countries
Basically we would leverage our existing Business Objects reporting options and utilise the Web Intelligence reporting from within business objects, which allow users to create their own reports on the fly. This gives the business greater flexibility in reporting and users are not constrait to built in reports or reports which 'IT' create. If you create the Web Intelligence "universe" correctly your reporting options are endless, once the 'universe' is created it removes the need for IT to create reports on request, as users simply create their own.
Hope this helps.........
Shane
Shane...
Just a small note - it is entirely possible to just use the returned XML as a dataset in a report. I've done it with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. I am not sure what your environment is but the xml is fairly standard.
Just a thought...