InterMapper and reporting facilities

[Richard E. Brown]

Folks:

We are beginning to think about enhancements to future versions of InterMapper. One frequent request we hear is for better reporting capabilities.

Now that strip charts are implemented in InterMapper Remote/Console, InterMapper can provide a certain measure of historical information. But it's likely that you would like to see InterMapper could collect, format and display lots of other data.

We'd like to know what kinds of reports or historical data that would be useful. Use the questions below as starters, and send your thoughts back to this list to spur further comments.
- Do you need daily, weekly, monthly reports? Of what kinds of information?
- Do you want reports of outages, traffic trends, utilization?
- Do you care how the data is saved? Would text files suffice? Is an SQL database required?
- If the data were saved in a SQL database, would you want direct access to the DBMS?
- How would you use this data? To help improve service? To look for trouble spots? To convince your boss you're doing a good job? :-)

We look forward to your thoughts. Many thanks!

Rich Brown
Dartware, LLC
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