You can simulate this in the following way. Make a new map and put your main switch on it. Let IM draw all the discovered ports and networks, then hide all but a couple that lead to some of your other devices. Add them to the map, too, and connect them to the main switch networks.
Set the reference point on the main switch, and set up the notifications you want to test out (email, page, sounds). (You can shortcut all this manual work by highlighting the devices and networks on your live map, copying them to the clipboard, and pasting them into a new map. This will bring along all of the other properties, like alarms.) Now turn off polling for the map and change the IP addresses on all the devices to an invalid address. They will each show an error when changed, but wait for one polling cycle and they'll all turn grey. Turn polling back on. IM will poll all the devices and decide they're all down, and you can watch what happens with shadowing and notifications. When I do this (IM 4.2.2, Mac OS X 10.3.5) the devices immediately downstream from the core switch are not shadowed, but the devices beyond those are properly shadowed. I fooled around with it a little and came up with the following explanation: Networks that are directly attached to the reference device do not get shadowed. (Is this a bug?) Devices connected to these networks therefore also don't get shadowed. This means that you'll get alerts from every device directly connected to your main switch, which is probably a fairly long list :) Shadowing works from devices that are NOT the reference device, so the devices further downstream get correctly shadowed. One workaround is to not use your main switch as the reference point. Pick a device upstream from there to be your reference device. You could actually put your IM server on the map, hide all of the networks connected to it, mark it as the reference device, and drag a manual link to the main switch by holding down the E key while you drag. IM just follows the links on the map to determine shadowing, including the manually created links, so this should work as desired. Hope this helps, Doug -- Doug Weathers, Network Administrator St. Charles Medical Center >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2004 10:58:49 AM >>> I have started to split up my school district into 26 separate maps for each site so that a Reference Point can be made on each map. That way if the main switch at a site goes down we don't get notified about all the dependent items. The main district map shows "map status probes" for each site and this part is working great. InterMapper 4.2.2 server is running on OS 10.3.5. When a main switch got replaced today at one site we got notified and all of the items at the site also sent notifications. I have reviewed the instructions here <http://www.dartware.com/intermapper/immanual/chapter3/dependencies.html> but am not sure why it isn't working correctly. The main switch is designated as the Reference Point and has a star. The other items at the site (Airport Base Stations, a Mac Server and printers) all automatically linked to the main switch through an automatically generated network when the map was created. Is it perhaps because the items (with their notifications) were pasted from a previous map instead of created on the map? The "shadowed device" status never happened. Thanks, -- ,-----/----. | O | O | Rich Battin | / | Apple Certified Technician | (__ | Academy School District 20 | \___|__/ | http://www.d20.co.edu '-----\----' ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This communication, including any attachment, contains information that may be confidential or privileged, and is intended solely for the entity or individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this email, including any attachment, is intended to be a legally binding signature. ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
