General options

Centreon MBI general options are used to configure:

• The report generation jobs scheduling options

• The communication between Centreon MBI interface and the reporting engine CBIS

• The notification parameters for Centreon MBI administrators

Notification options

The reporting engine can notify Centreon MBI administrators after each report generation. The e-mail sent provides:

• The reports direct download links

• the log file related to the job that generated the reports

This way, the administrators of Centreon MBI will be able to control if any job went to failure.

The notification process must be differentiated from the publication of the reports by e-mail.

The publication by e-mail of the reports allows to send the reports to the concerned users. The notification option sends an e-mail to Centreon MBI administrator that only contains the logs of the job that generated the report.

The notification option parameters can be modified in the following menu:

Reporting > Business Intelligence > General Options | Notification Options

Description of the form:

Row	Description
Enable job notification for administrators	Permits to configure the default notification system. It’s possible to disable on each job this notification.
E-mail from	E-mail sender
SMTP server	SMTP server adress (IP/DNS)
SMTP port	SMTP Port
Use credential	Use an authentication (yes/no)
Use SSL	Une an ssl authentification (yes/no)
SMTP user	SMTP User account
SMTP password (Set this parameter only if you need to update the password)	Password for the SMTP user
E-mail default title	Subject of the e-mail used by default if at the scheduled task, no specific object is defined
Default E-mail body	Body of the e-mail used by default if at the scheduled task, no specific object is defined
Default E-mail footer	Footer of the e-mail used by default if at the scheduled task, no specific object is defined
Centreon main server web protocol	The protocol used by web interface Centreon (http / https)
Centreon web URL extension	The Centreon server URL extension (Example : / centreon)
Centreon main server web address (Example : demo.centreon.com)	Centreon server address (example: demo.centreon.com)
Contact groups	Centreon MBI administrators contact groups. Leave empty if you don’t want to receive a notification after each report generation.
Testing notification	Put an email address on this field, then click on test to send an email to validate your configuration. Note: if an authentification is requied, make sure that the field SMTP password is correctly filled

Scheduler options

The following menu allows to modify the scheduling options of the reporting engine:

Reporting > Business Intelligence > General Options | Scheduler options

Cbis properties

The Centreon MBI interface can instantly communicate with the reporting engine CBIS. The frontend opens a connection on the CBIS listening port to:

• Warn about the modification or the creation of a job

• Update the available language for the translation of the reports

• Test publication rule configurations

• Test the administrators notification options

Parameters description:

Option	Description
CBIS host	IP address of the server hosting the reporting engine
CBIS port	TCP port on which the reporting engine is listening
CBIS connection timeout	Time that the frontend will wait before assuming that the connection to the reporting engine failed

The modification of these parameters needs the restart of the daemon CBIS.

Report generation time properties

Parameters description:

Option	Description
All cyclic reports generation hour	Hour for generation of daily/weekly/monthly reports
Day of month for the generation of monthly reports	Day of month for the generation of monthly reports
Day of week for the generation of weekly reports	Day of week for the generation of weekly reports.
maximum load allowed to the scheduler for the jobs execution	Maximum weight authorized for simultaneous job execution

Report custom properties

Two reports need to access Centreon main server to generate RRD graphs. These reports are:

• Host-graph-v2

• Hostgroup-graph-v2

Fill the following field:

The modification of these parameters needs the restart of the daemon CBIS.

The default theme can also be defined in this part, using the option “Default report color theme”.

Etl options

Centreon MBI integrates its own ETL capabilities to:

• Synchronize monitoring raw data with the reporting server

• Calculate availability and performance statistics on the reporting server

• Manage the data retention on the reporting server

Before following the next steps, we consider that you have read the best practice parts of the installation that give advices about the configuration (groups, categories etc..) that must be done in Centreon before launching the statistics calculation.

In the menu “Reporting > Business Intelligence > General Options > ETL options” of Centreon, specify the following options:

Options	Values
General options
Reporting engine uses a dedicated MySQL server	Yes. You must have a dedicated reporting server
Compatibility mode to use report templates from version of Centreon MBI prior to 1.5.0	No (concerns only the upgrade from prior versions of Centreon MBI)
Temporary files storage directory on reporting server	Folder where the dumps will be stored on the dedicated reporting server (depending on your architecture)
Type of statistics to build	Select “Availability only” if you use only the availability reports. Select “Performance and capacity only” if you only want to use reports capacity and performance Select “All” to calculate the statistics for the two types of reports.
Use large memory tweaks (store MySQL temporary tables in memory)	No
Reporting perimeter selection
Host groups	Select only host group that you want to agregate data on.
Host categories	Select only host categories that you want to agregate data on.
Service categories	Select only service categories that you want to agregate data on.
Availability statistic calculation
Live services for availability statistics calculation	Select needed time periods
Performance and capacity statistic calculation
Granularity required for performance data statistics	Select the level of granularity required to run performance reports you want (1)
Live services for performance data statistics calculation	Select needed time periods
Capacity statistic agregated by month
Live services for capacity statistics calculation	Select the “24x7” time period
Service categories related to capacity data monitoring	Select the services categories that have been associated with capacity type services
Exclude metrics from service categories that does not return a capacity USAGE information	Concern the metrics linked to services which return capacity data. Select the metrics that don’t return a capacity usage information, but returns a maximum or a total value. (example: the metric “size”)
Centile parameters
Calculating centile agregation by	Select the agregation level that you want. The standard percentile report provided with BI 2.1 uses Month data
Select service categories to agregate centile on	Filter on relevant service categories for centile statistics (Ex: Traffic)
First day of the week	Select the first day of the week to consider for Week agregation.
Centile / Timeperiod combination	Create new centile/timeperiod combination on which the calculation will be dones

(1) The reports that needs a precision per hour of the performance data are those listed below. If you don’t use these reports, disable the statistics calculation by hour:

• Host-detail-v2

• Hostgroup-traffic-Average-Usage-By-Interface

• Hostgroup-traffic-by-Interface-And-Bandwith-Ranges

Data retention options

It’s possible to manage the data retention on the reporting database. The retention is done on raw and aggregated data . The following parameters permit to manage this retention ( in days).

Don’t forget to activate the data retention using the check box “Enable data retention option”.

Field
Performance data retention
Raw performance data imported from Centreon
Performance data agregated by hour
Performance data agregated by day
Performance data agregated by month
Availability data retention
Raw log data imported from Centreon
Availability data agregated by day
Availability data agregated by month

Report Parameter

This tab enables you to display the dimensions available for a user based on its ACL resctriction and what was calculated in the data warehouse.

When updating groups and categories configuration, make sure to update the ACL by clicking on “Update ACL resources”. This will update available objects when configuring jobs.

Reporting Widgets

This tab is use to configure the connection to the reporting database and its current status. These connection information are used to fill widgets with data.