RE: Feat.Req: Auto Acknowledge

[Mark Persiko]

Title: Message

Grey is already in use for "non-polling".  I vote for brown for

items in maintenance mode.  Maintenance mode is a good

idea - we have scheduled activities that could be accounted

for differently than downtime.

Mark

- Mark C. Persiko, Network Engineer
- IT Division, Boulder Valley School District
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jakob Peterh�nsel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:40 PM
To: InterMapper Discussion
Subject: Re: Feat.Req: Auto Acknowledge

Hi Rich

Yes, that was what I was thinking about.

1: Yes, it should probably not be blue as the ACK'ed state (though my initial quick-draft was in that direction..)

Distinction should be visible.

I'm thinking Grey here. In the B/W icon world, grey fill would do, in the color world, I'm more to a 'neutral' basic icon that you either a) replace with artist work for the states, or b) impose/hue-shift (PhotoShop: Color Burn) the color onto.

I'll try to mock up some screens soon.

(Could you hack a demo probe to use special icons for different states??? Pleeze! ;-)

iconname.<state>.[png | jpg]

2: It could be 'Maintenance mode' or 'Workstation mode'. Vocabulary differ from site to site.

Hey !!!!! This should be an option in the Device Type pop-up: Router, Hub, End System(Ie. 24/7 Server), WorkStation, -, Maintenance

Maybe WorkStation AND Maintenance is useful:

Maintenance: This state sets the device in semi-warning, Displaying changes (Up, Down etc..), but does Not make sounds and notifications. Logging should always be done.

WorkStation: Tells InterMapper to silently set the device in 'offline' if it goes down. Offline mode could be Grey, and could maybe involve a schedule where it uses offline instead of Down.

On fredag, feb 21, 2003, at 17:36 Europe/Copenhagen, Richard E. Brown wrote:

--- You wrote:

I would like to suggest a small feature in a device: Auto Acknowledge.

I image it implemented with a checkbox on the device Info window.

With this checked, the device will auto ACK when it goes 'down'.

Useful if you monitor some hardware that does go down, due to turning

it of (when leaving the office).

--- end of quote ---

Good idea. We've been thinking of a similar effect, although we had thought

about it as a "maintenance mode". Here's how it might work:

You'd set a bit on the particular device (or set of devices). InterMapper would

continue to poll the device as usual.

When the device went down (either because you went home for the night, or

because you shut the system down for maintenance), InterMapper would detect that

the device had gone down and make an entry in the event log, and perhaps color

it a special way on the map. But no notification would be sent for the device,

since it was pre-acknowledged/in maintenance mode.

Is this what you envision? What color/representation might InterMapper use to

show this state? I think it should be distinctive so you can easily notice it

on-screen, but not intrusive (like blinking).

Jakob Peterh�nsel

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