Jobs

Centreon MBI includes a scheduling engine that allow you to plan reports generation.

Job list

The following menu lists running, scheduled, failed, stopped or finished jobs:

Reporting > Business Intelligence > Configuration > Jobs

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Legend: list of scheduled jobs

Description of columns:

Column

Description

Name

Name of the scheduled job

Report Model

Model on which the report will be offered

Period

Period over which the report is generated

Output Format

Export formats of the generated report (PDF, Excel, Powerpoint, CSV, DOC)

Execution Time

Execution date and time of the planned job

Options

Number of duplications of the job that have to be done if the duplication option is selected in the menu “More Actions”

In the column “Name” of the table, an icon is displayed depending on the job state:

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Job stopped
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Job scheduled
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Job being executed
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Job ended (only for a single-use job)
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Job failed or canceled

Search filters

Search filters are available for a quick access to needed jobs:

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Legend: job filtering options

The form named “Search” allows to filter by job name.

The form “Job state” filters by job state.

Description of the different states:

State

Description

Scheduled

Job planned, will be executed

Running

Job running, the report is being generated

Failed

Job failed

Stopped

Job stopped, won’t be executed.

Finished

Job is terminated, the report has been generated. This state appears only for single jobs, cyclic jobs return to the state “Scheduled” once the report is generated

All

All states

Job list Refresh

The following icons allow the user to dynamically updates the list of jobs:

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manually refresh the list and the state of each job.
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The automatic refresh is stopped, the blue icon can re-activate it.
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The automatic refresh is activated, the blue icon can stop it.

Action menu

The actions menu in the page that lists planned jobs is for carrying out different modification or addition actions. This occurs simultaneously on one or several elements of the list.

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Legend : actions menu of the “Jobs” page

The following table describes the different possible actions:

Action

Description

Trash

Sends the selected jobs to the trash.

Stop

Stops the selected jobs.

Reschedule

Schedules/Runs the selected jobs.

Duplicate

Duplicates the selected jobs. All settings and relations will also be duplicated.

Adding / Editing

The following form is used for adding a new scheduled job:

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Legend: form for adding/editing scheduled jobs

Configuration

Job configuration:

A report generation job must be linked to a template (“Report Template”).

Several report ouput formats are available:

  • Acrobat PDF

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

  • Microsoft Powerpoint

  • CSV : this export format is particular, it only takes the first BIRT Data Set of the report and export it to a CSV file. Most of the time, if you want to use this format, you need to have a BIRT report that has been designed for that.

Note: Microsoft document formats cannot be opened with OpenOffice.

Reports can be generated in other languages. Currently available languages are:

  • French

  • English US

The icon on the right of the selection menu allows to update the list of available report translation language.

Scheduling

A job may be executed in two different ways.

IMMEDIATE EXECUTION

  • Can be executed immediately (“Immediate Execution”):

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Legend: timed job for immediate execution

SCHEDULED (“Scheduled Execution > One Shot”):

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Legend: timed job for later execution

Note: When you edit a job created in the immediate execution option, it dosn’t apprear in immediate execution, but it appears like scheduled job, with a execution date as the creation job date.

For immediate scheduled jobs, the period of the report must be specified by the user.

CYCLIC

In this case, the job will run on a daily, weekly or monthly bases.

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Legend : cyclic scheduled job

For cyclic jobs, this period is calculated automatically according to the job frequency:

  • daily reports have their period as the previous day

  • weekly reports have their period as the previous week

  • monthly reports have their period as the previous month

Report parameters

The “Report Parameters” tab is used to set the report model specific parameters.

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Legend: report specific parameters example

This part of the form changes based on the report model selected in the “Configuration” tab of the scheduled job.

There can be three types of fields in this form:

  • text fields

  • radio buttons

  • Selection and multi-selection menus for the following resources:

    • hosts

    • metrics

    • host groups

    • service groups

    • service categories

    • time periods

    • business groups (Centreon BAM module is required)

    • business activities (Centreon BAM module is required)

    • Images that will be inserted in the reports (logo for example)

Note: A value must be specified for each field of this form except for the multi-selection parameter when it corresponds to exclusion of metrics, in this case, if you do not set any metric to exclude, all metrics will be used.

Reports publication

Once the report is generated, it can be automatically published using pre-defined rules. When creating a job, you can several rules in the tab “Publication” (refer to the the chapter “publication rules” for more informations about the different report publication protocols).

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Legend: job publication configuration

Tuning :

A “Tuning” tab is added on the version 1.6.0, it contains 3 parameters:

  • A report color theme: The color theme managment has been implemented. It permits the choose the color palette. 7 default themes are proposed: Maroon, Orange, Blue, Ice, Green, Multicolor-1 and Multicolor-2

Below palettes associated to colors:

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There are some reports which are not compatible with colors theme. The default theme can me modify on the general option of Centreon MBI menu. For more informations, go to chapter General options .

  • Multiplier coefficient of the scheduled task: Each report model have a weight, a scheduled task can multiply this weight in function of the parameters used to run the report model. The sum of the weights associated with the running tasks can not exceed the maximum load permissible for the reporting engine.

  • Enable admin notification on scheduled job: Enable or not email notification when the job is generated.