Re: [hobbit] availibility report in pdf

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com>]

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From: "Stef Coene" <stef.coene (at) docum.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:26 AM
To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Subject: [hobbit] availibility report in pdf

> Hi,
>
> Just wondering, has anyone a script/program/idea for a availability report 
> in
> pdf?
>
> The generated availibility report from the hobbit site is nice, but I need 
> to
> have (at least my boss want it) a pdf report of some selected tests (pings
> and netwerk tests).  He wants it in pdf so he can print it and take use it 
> on
> the SLA follow-up meetings where stuff like availibility and helpdesk 
> reponse
> times are evaluated.
> He was also concerned about maintenance windows.  If an error occured 
> during
> the maintance window, it should be flagged or reported separated.
>
> A perfect report would be a pie chart or even simple numbers with colors 
> per
> your / month / week of some selected tests.  And this in a pdf that my 
> boss
> (watch out, very important) can generate easily from the hobbit website.
>
> I can script it myself (based on the pdf report generator discussed 
> before),
> but I don't want to reinvent the whele.

If we want to enhance the report formats, I like to suggest
generating excel format  with graph (not just csv). Not sure about php but 
perl
has good excel modules can do this data conversion.

tj
> Stef
>
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