Reports

Reports turn the data GridNMS collects every day into something you can hand to a manager, attach to an audit, or use to plan capacity. Each report can be filtered by time range and exported, so you can pull a clean snapshot whenever you need one.

The Reports page generates inventory, event-summary, and maintenance reports you can filter and export.

Available reports

Open Reports from the navigation and choose the report you want.

Device inventory report

A complete list of the devices GridNMS is tracking, with the details you’d want for an asset record:

• Device name and IP address
• Class (Router, Switch, Firewall, etc.)
• Site / location
• Vendor and model where known
• Current status and last seen time

This is your go-to for audits and asset reconciliation — proof of exactly what’s on the network and where. Export it to CSV to drop into a spreadsheet, a CMDB, or an audit package.

Event summary report

A roll-up of event activity over a period, designed to answer “how healthy were we, and what hurt us most?” It includes:

• A severity breakdown — how many Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, and Info events occurred (see severity levels).
• The top-10 event sources — the devices that generated the most events.
• The top affected devices — where to focus reliability work.

Use this for monthly reviews and post-incident reporting. The top-10 lists make problem devices impossible to miss — they’re often the best candidates for repair or replacement.

Maintenance schedule report

A view of planned maintenance windows — past, current, and upcoming — showing:

• The time window for each piece of planned work
• The devices (or site/class) it covers
• Its current state (upcoming, in progress, completed)

Use this to communicate planned downtime to stakeholders and to keep a record of when work was done against which devices.

Filtering by time range

Most reports accept a time range. Use the picker to set the window the report covers — last 7 days, last month, last quarter, or a custom span. The event summary and maintenance reports change with the range; the inventory report is a current snapshot but can be scoped by site.

Tip

For a monthly operations review, run the event summary for the previous full calendar month. The severity breakdown shows the trend, and the top-10 lists point straight at what to fix next.

Exporting

When a report is on screen, use the Export option to download it. The device inventory report exports to CSV, which opens cleanly in any spreadsheet tool and is easy to import into other systems. CSV export makes reports portable for:

• Audits — a timestamped, shareable record of inventory or events.
• Capacity reviews — feeding device and event data into your own analysis.
• Handoffs — giving another team a snapshot without GridNMS access.

Note

A report reflects the data GridNMS had over the chosen window. For the most complete event summary, make sure the devices you care about were actually being monitored during that period — an unmonitored device generates no events to report on.

Common ways teams use reports

Goal	Report	How
Prove what’s on the network for an audit	Device inventory	Scope to a site, export CSV.
Spot the least-reliable devices	Event summary	Run for last month, read the top-10.
Show planned downtime to stakeholders	Maintenance schedule	Filter to upcoming windows.
Track event volume trend over time	Event summary	Run for each month and compare severity breakdowns.
Feed asset data into a CMDB	Device inventory	Export CSV and import.

Where to go next

• Drill into the underlying records on the Events & Alerts page.
• Keep your inventory accurate so reports are accurate via Devices & Inventory.
• Plan downtime that shows up in the maintenance report from Events & Alerts.