Re: Custom Probes

[Jonathan Sherman]

I have also EAGERLY been awaiting this.  Allow me to echo James' request.   And since we are on a feature request post :)...   Has there been any discussion on some kind of implementation of 'Object Groups'?  Where a user could create groups with what ever name that wanted, then assign various InterMapper hosts to them.  Then configuration changes could be made at a group level, instead of at an individual object level.   For example: I work for a K-12 school district, so I'll make my example along our needs.  Lets say I had a set of thirty switches spread across my six different elementary buildings, and then I had another set of fifty switches spread across my four secondary buildings (High School, and Middle Schools).  Lets also say that the switches in the two different sets are differing models.  Next I would create a group called 'Elementary Switches', and another group called 'Secondary Switches', and then assign each switch to the appropriate group.   Now, we have a change in staff within the Technology Department, so I need to update the contact information for all of my switches at the Secondary level.  Since I have a group set up, I just need to update the group... instead of updating all fifty switches one at a time. Or, lets say that my probe changes for one of my models.  Again, I could just make the change at the group level, instead of going through and painstakingly updating each item.  Or, lets say I want to change a sound alert... Or, our SNMP community changes... Or, perhaps I want one set of devices to be Polled at a different interval than some others... Etc. Etc. Etc.     Jonathan Sherman District Technician Technology Office Hudsonville Public Schools   >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/09/03 04:06PM >>> Has there been any discussion to adding the ability to add basic programming logic to the custom probes, i.e. if-then or do-while looping?  I'm eagerly awaiting the ability to do + - * / etc., but wanted to know if any other logic like this would be added to custom probe programming in the future.  Thanks in advance.   James P. Ashe Systems Analyst 2 ETSU Office of Information Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] OIT Help Desk - 423.439.4648