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Boston
Understanding & Using SpiceworksMonitoring, Alerting and Reporting
Francis SullivanCTO & Co-founder, Spiceworks Inc.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Session Overview
• kinds of alerts and monitors
• default configuration
• reporting
• advanced topics
• Q&A
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What Can Be Monitored?
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AntiVirus: Keep your machines up and running with current antivirus software. Is not up-to-date: Be alerted when virus definitions need updating. Has > 1 installed: Be alerted if more than one antivirus program is installed.
Having more than one antivirus program installed can slow down the performance of a machine and actually leave it more vulnerable to an attack.
What Can Be Monitored?
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What Can Be Monitored?
Device: A device is any computer connected to the network. You can monitor a specific device, or monitor them all by typing "Any Device". Is online: Be alerted if a device goes online. Is offline: Be alerted if a device goes offline. Is discovered: Be alerted if a new device is discovered on the network. Offline for a time period: To avoid flutter, only be alerted if device stays offline.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Disk: Find out if there are issues with any disk on your system. You can keep an eye on every disk on your system by typing "Any Disk", or pick one particular disk. Was added: Be alerted when a hard drive is added. Was removed: Be alerted when a hard drive is removed. Is < x% free: Be alerted when diskspace falls below a certain percentage. Choices are 5, 10, 15,
20, and 25%. Has < x MB/GB free: Be alerted when diskspace falls below a certain value. Choices are 50,
100, 250, 500 MB and 1, 5, 10 GB.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Software: Stay on top of software issues with this monitor. You can designate a specific program to be monitored, or choose to monitor all software by typing "Any Software". Is installed: Be alerted when programs are installed. Is uninstalled: Be alerted when program are removed. Is not compliant: Be alerted if too many copies of a program are installed.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Service: A service is a program that runs in the background of a computer to keep everything else working right. You can monitor a specific service, or monitor them all by typing "Any Service". Is uninstalled: Be alerted when a service is uninstalled. Is installed: Be alerted when a service is installed. Is stopped: Be alerted when a service has stopped. Is started: Be alerted when a service has started.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Hotfix: A hotfix is a patch that is downloaded to fix a program. You can decide to monitor all hotfixes by typing "Any Hotfix", or choose to monitor one individual hotfix. Is uninstalled: Be alerted when a hotfix is uninstalled. Is installed: Be alerted when a hotfix is installed.
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What Can Be Monitored?
User Account: Keep track of the user accounts on your network. You can monitor one specific account or monitor them all by typing "Any User Account". Is removed: Be alerted when a user account is deleted. Is created: Be alerted when a new user account is added.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Printer Supply Level: Keep track of your printer supplies so you don't have to drop what you're doing when you're out of toner. Is < x%: Be alerted when the ink or toner in your network printers drop below a certain
level. Choices are 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50%.
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What Can Be Monitored?
Event: You can find out when an event of your choosing happens such as a certain ID logging in. Or you can monitor all events by typing "Any Event". Is triggered: Be alerted when an event is triggered.
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What Can Be Monitored?
IT Service: Keep track of how long you have until an IT service end date. Is < x Days: Be alerted when an IT service end date is approaching. Choices are 10,
30, and 60 days.
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Where Alerts Show Up
»On Inventory Summary
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Where Alerts Show Up
»On Inventory Summary
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Where Alerts Show Up
» On Group Summary
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Where Alerts Show Up
» On Group Summary
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Where Alerts Show Up
»email notification
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Where Alerts Show Up
»email notification
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Where Alerts Show Up
»email notification
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Where Alerts Show Up
»on the device
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Where Alerts Show Up
»on the device
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Default Configuration
• pre-configured monitors
• changing thresholds
• email configuration
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Default Out-of-the-box Monitors
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Changing Thresholds in 3.5
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e-mail configuration
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e-mail configuration
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e-mail configuration
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Reporting
•accessing reports
•out of the box reports
•creating or editing your own report
•reoccurring reports
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Two levels of access when it come to reports in Spiceworks:
Admin access: This is the normal level of access that you have as the administrator of Spiceworks. You have complete control over all reporting functions, including granting "Reporting" access to others.
Reporting access: People with reporting access are allowed to open Spiceworks and run reports designated "public". Reporting users cannot create their own reports nor access any other Spiceworks features.
You can designate reporting access to anyone who might regularly need reports. A convenient way to save yourself a little work!
Accessing Reports
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Actions: Click column headings to sort the report information. Click the Print, PDF, CSV or Excel links to print or save the report in the desired
format. When saving a report to Excel, you must open the document with Microsoft Office
2003 or later. If you are using Open Office, you should try saving as a .CSV file and then importing it.
Viewing Reports
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Default Out-of-the-box Reports
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Default Out-of-the-box Reports
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Creating or Editing a Report
name and description
type
conditions
display
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Types of Reports
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Conditions
auto-complete
and / or
Strings
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Date Conditions
explicit daterelative dates
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Example Relative Dates
• 3 years ago
!•! 5 months before now
!•! 7 days from now
!•! next month
!•! 1 year ago tomorrow
!•! 3 months ago saturday
!•! 3rd wednesday in november
!•! 4th day last week
!•! last week tuesday
!•! tomorrow at 6 a.m.
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Display
add new columns
first column defines sort order
drag-and-drop to reorder columns
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Have you written a cool report? Share it with the Spiceworks Community. Your report may save someone else like you a lot of time. You'll also earn a nifty badge for your profile.
To share a report: Click the Reporting link on the left panel from anywhere in Spiceworks. Select the report you want to share. Click on the Share button. Enter more details about the report you've shared and click the Submit button.
Sharing Custom Reports
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Import Reports that Other Users have Shared
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Import Reports that Other Users have Shared
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Reoccurring Reports
Monday Morning “Coffee” Report: shows what had changed in the last week
- you can configure the time and period from advanced email settingsfor example: tomorrow at 6 a.m. would make this a daily report
Script Interface: run_report.rb - http://community.spiceworks.com/education/projects/Scripting_Spiceworks_Reports
- list available reports - run report and save output as CSV, PDF, or XSL - can be hooked into Windows at or task scheduler to run on a schedule
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Advanced Topics
behind the scenes:
•online/offline checking
•network health check
•network scanning
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Sqlite DB
scannerSpiceworks Main App
IT Admin
Spicedesk
http
Online/Offline Checking
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Sqlite DB
scannerSpiceworks Main App
IT Admin
Spicedesk
http
Network Health Check
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Sqlite DB
scannerSpiceworks Main App
IT Admin
Spicedesk
http
Network Scanning
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Sqlite DB
scannerSpiceworks Main App
IT Admin
Spicedesk
http
Network Scanning
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• tricks with email
• SQL Reports and Widgets
• APIs
More Advanced Topics
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Nagios Example
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Nagios Example
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Nagios Example
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Nagios Example
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Nagios Example
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Nagios Example
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SQL Reports
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SQL Reports
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SQL Reports
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SQL Report as a Widget
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SQL Report as a Widget
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SQL Report as a Widget
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SQL Tools
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817Firefox addon SQLite Manager
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Alert API’s - Web REST Interface
POST /api/alerts.json?title=AlertTitle&hostname=HOST&...- create a new external monitor alert
GET /api/alerts.json - array of all monitor alerts
GET /api/alerts/{id}.json - details for the alert with the specified id
GET /api/alerts.json?data_monitor_id={id}- array of all monitor alerts for the data monitor with the specified id
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Alert API’s - Web REST Interfacefiltered
GET /api/alerts.json?filter=active- array of all active monitor alerts
GET /api/alerts.json?filter=recent- array of all alerts generated in the last 7 days
GET /api/alerts.json?filter=recent&date=2008-10-20- array of all alerts generated since the specified date
GET /api/alerts.json?filter=external- array of all external alerts
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Questions?
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