Using the new web-based report writer I built a report that shows gives my all of the nodes that are not reporting a valid hardware status (up/warning/critical). Summarized the report by the team that owns the node (we use a custom property called OwnerGroup for that data) and did a count plus included the nodes, grouped by OwnerGroup, for the team to investigate.
All good. But what about those nodes that *should* be configured to collect hardware status but were not set up correctly?
I thought that would be an easy fix. I used the same report template and then started searching for the information contained in the Node Details > Hardware field on the Node Details > Summary view (at least by default -- you might have changed your views). Huh? I couldn't find it. I found everything else, but I can't seem to find this field. If I could the data would be nice and easy. I'd check for any node that didn't say 'Virtual'.
Can I do this without using a custom SQL query? I'll do it if I have to but it just makes the supportability for new engineers a little more challenging going forward.
Thoughts?