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I'm finding it necessary to use Nagios XI to generate two types of reports:

- Executive summary report: holds only basic information anyone can understand
- Detailed report: holds all service reports

My main issue is that, Nagios XI is currently monitoring many offline hosts (for when they are eventually re-implemented). This skews the results of the availability report however, so I made a hostgroup to get around that (filled only with implemented hosts)

However, when I try to generate a report with a specific hostgroup, I get a bunch of detailed service information (appropriate for a 'detailed report'). Likewise, If I leave the hostgroup blank, I get a basic summary (appropriate for an 'executive report'). But I can't get a summary report with a specified hostgroup -- it forcibly gives me pages and pages of service information.

While one solution is to just disable (make inactive) all the un-implemented hosts, it would be heavily desired to have Nagios XI automatically pick them up when they're re-enabled, instead of me having to re-enable them all individually by hand, and having to manually check when they're online.

Is there a feature for summary reports across certain hosts/hostgroups/servicegroups?

However, when I try to generate a report with a specific hostgroup, I get a bunch of detailed service information (appropriate for a 'detailed report').

Can you show us an example of this? When I generate an Executive Summary report for a hostgroup on my testbox, I don't see the "detailed service information"... Maybe you are running the Availability Summary report...

lmiltchev wrote:

However, when I try to generate a report with a specific hostgroup, I get a bunch of detailed service information (appropriate for a 'detailed report').

Can you show us an example of this? When I generate an Executive Summary report for a hostgroup on my testbox, I don't see the "detailed service information"... Maybe you are running the Availability Summary report...

Man do I feel stupid! I guess I was expecting 'Reports' to direct me to the first report in the list (Executive Summary), but serves me right for not reading the header.

Thanks a ton