Report Templates > Activity

This page has information about the Activity block, and variables valid within this scope. See the Report Templates page for more information about Simon's report templates.

The Activity block includes variables about activity — i.e. values displayed in Simon's Monitor window in the activity log.

Variables are tags in the file that are replaced by another value when the report is used. Variables are enclosed in curly braces, and have a variable name optionally followed by any number of parameters, e.g. {date type="relative"}. See the parameters page for information on the available parameters.

The variables that are available in this scope include:

Variable:Outputs:
DateThe date and time of the activity.
TypeThe type of activity, e.g. Service, Filter, Notifier, Test start, etc.
KindThe kind of activity, i.e. the plug-in kind, e.g. Web, Number, etc.
NameThe name of the test that this relates to.
StatusThe status of the action: unchanged, changed, failure, recovery, etc. Also supports icon output.
DetailsAdditional information, typically the output of the service and filters.