Availability Reports

Service availability reports are recorded daily and measure both duration and the percentage of time during which each service is available in a 24 hour period, see the “Availability Computations” section @10.3 below for details. The evaluated parameters are tabulated and are accessible from the web frontend menu: Statistics → Availability reports

Figure: Availability Reports

Figure: Availability Reports

Click on one of the reports to open it for viewing or right click to save the file on your machine or to a network drive. When saving, designate a folder to save the report (in *.csv format).

image

You can then open the report in a spreadsheet program.

Figure: Availability Report CSV

Figure: Availability Report CSV

The details of the various fields are described in the next table.

Service Availability Parameters

When RPM is monitoring the Downtime and Uptime parameters, it computes Availability and Fault_Count for each Service running on an Encoder, Probe, or Group (of probe servers):

Table: Service Availability Parameters

Term

Definition

Report Start, Report End, Report Duration

Start and end date and time of the report and the period over which the parameters of the report were collected

Group

Name for the group (of servers) to which this probe belongs

Probe

Probe server

Encoder

Module which analyzes video and media data

Service

A broadcast service also referred to as a channel

Downtime

Duration the service was not operating during the reporting period

Uptime

Duration the service was operating during the reporting period

Availability

Percentage of time a service is available in a 24 hour period => Uptime/”Report Duration” x 100

Fault_Count

Number of faults for a service per Report Duration, 24 hours

Total_Count

Number of times the channel was dialed during the 24 hour period