Re: Dashboarding graphs of a single metric for every interface in a node or category

Hi Gavin,

Thanks for the response. KSC reports get me close to what I need. It's a
lot of work to build them in my environment though. I'll look at ways of
scripting their creation.

On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 at 20:10, Gavin Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m sure others will have better advice than me as I’m also new to
> OpenNMS, but here goes:
>
>
>
>    1. Grafana is one of the best options for this as it can use variables
>    allowing you to build a dashboard will “all metrics for a selected node” or
>    “a selected metric for all nodes” quite easily
>    2. Have you looked at the KSC reports?  You can add any of the
>    RRD/backshift graphs you like to a single report and then display that
>    report.  It’s not dynamic, but it will do what you’re looking for in a
>    static world (i.e. you configure which specific metrics you want to see on
>    that report and then run that report).
>
>
>
> *From:* Alasdair Muckart <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 02 June 2018 06:51
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [opennms-discuss] Dashboarding graphs of a single metric for
> every interface in a node or category
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've been experimenting with OpenNMS to see if it will fit the needs of my
> organization, and there's a couple of feature of our current NMSes I can't
> seem to replicate with OpenNMS without a lot of messing around configuring
> grafana, so I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing.
>
>
>
> What I need is a way to view graphs from multiple interfaces on multiple
> nodes on a single page, but viewing only one metric - be that throughput or
> errors or whatever. At the moment I can easily get graphs for every
> interface on a single node, but I get all metrics for every interface which
> means I can't get a good view of e.g. just the throughput across all the
> interfaces on a device.
>
>
>
> Another use case is being able to graph all of the interfaces involved in
> connectivity for a business service and being able to select whether to see
> throughput, errors, bits in/out, etc. for all the interfaces at once.
>
>
>
> As far as I can see it's impossible in OpenNMS to get graphs for multiple
> nodes at a time in any way. For all of its other weaknesses this is one
> thing (the only thing?) that Statseeker does quite well.
>
>
>
> Am I missing something? Is there a way to do this without having to set up
> queries manually in grafana for everything I want to be able to view?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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