I'm sure I'll be the subject of many kill filters at
dartware soon ;)
The reason I request things so often is not because
Intermapper is lacking, it is because the developers are very receptive to the
community, and that was very important to me in choosing IM over other products
that we tested.
That being said.... here comes the
request.
I would see something like that map status probe, but
instead of giving you status of the worst item on the map you point it would
give you the status of the best.
why do i want that, do you ask?
well imagine something is wrong with your connection to the
Internet downstream, and you wish to know when it happens. We could
create a submap that checked google, yahoo, intermapper.com, etc. to see if they
were available and if ALL of the items on the map became red, this altered map
status probe would turn red and shoot off an alert saying that there was a
problem getting out to the Internet. If you could get to at least one of
the randomly chosen Internet sites, then green is good.
This would also be useful for clustered services, and other
cases where the ability of something being 'DOWN' was dependant on all items on
a 'map' being down.
Comments?
James P.
Ashe
Systems
Analyst 2
ETSU
Office of Information Technology
OIT Help
Desk - 423.439.4648
