I would like to vote for the things Tim suggested as well. The ability for IM to recognize ifindex changes and re-map to the right historical data points would be nice. Also for IM to recognoze an ifindex changes so we don't have to rediscover the device to reflect the changes. I also have manually created an IM web page which has MRTG links on all my serial links. That way when you click on a serial link, you get the mrtg graph for the link. This is really nice but alot of work.
-John --- Tim Streater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 13:39 06/08/2003, Richard E. Brown wrote: > >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? :-) > > This is interesting. Previously I had requested a > solution to the problem that, sometimes ifIndex > values change, and that there is no way to "tie > together" charts and their datasets, when these > represent the same thing. That same thing can be > when the ifIndex changes due to a router reload, but > it can also be because the customer upgrades their > connection speed, and I would like to see their old > traffic and their new traffic on the same chart. > > There have been some requests for MRTG-like > facilities, too, in IM. What we have done here to > provide some live traffic info to our customers, is > to develop a separate clickable map of the network > where, via the web, they can click on their access > circuit and see some MRTG charts. This entails quite > some work for our NOC to keep this up to date as > things change. They have to hand-configure a lot of > stuff which is automatic in IM; I add a circuit and > a router on an IM map, and the right things are > automatically clickable. > > In other words, IM already has a lot of the internal > infrastructure available. It would be nice to be > able to leverage this more. One could imagine > configuring separate views of a map. One view might > be a NOC view, as at present. Another might be a > planner's view; when you click on a link a set of > charts pop up instead of the pop-up we see today, > showing current and historical traffic. You might > want a view showing types of traffic: best efforts, > less-than-BE, multicast, QoS. > > Right - I'll stop this ne - it's lunchtime. > -- > > Tim > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
