[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 9:57 PM -0500 6/2/06, Szymon Lobocki wrote: > >That's what folks are talking about, because many of them have trouble > >adopting to the new product after using the old product for years.
> That's it exactly. I've used the "Traditional" InterMapper interface since the beginning about ten years ago. I used MacPing in 1992. There isn't enough reason to jump to the new interface and loose current key functionality. For example, say a new technician is created and notifications need to be set for all devices on several maps, then change all notification delays to ten minutes globally to all assigned notifications. These and other management issues mentioned like probe configuration are done easier on the original interface. Promises of fixes in the future have been made. Losing development of the traditional interface is disappointing if these issues aren't resolved. InterMapper Remote (IMR) has been a disappointment to me so far. We've always had Timbuktu (TB2) licenses so that's the preferred cross platform remote management and remote display method. VNC or ARD (Mac only) are possibilities. Buying the extra IMR software does allow individual display of the maps as desired whereas with TB2 whatever is on the traditional "server" is what you see. But what you see is real-time using TB2 and with IMR showing the same overview map with only map status probes there is often a "java glitch" or something causing the status colors to not instantly change. Sometimes they have to manually kicked before they will change: Open a map with a red down status by double-clicking the map status probe, find an acknowledged down device (e.g., printer or wireless access point) and un-acknowledge it. Then select the blinking red down icon and acknowledge it. It turns blue and then the corresponding map status probe changes from red to blue. This has to be done on the IMR client and not on the server. Then the display of critical network information is correct. The IT staff and administrators all love InterMapper's excellent network monitoring, notification and display capabilities, which it has been focused on from the beginning. The "new" java interface introduced in 2002 is still deficient in notification and display capabilities. Rich Battin _________________________________________________________ This mail sent using V-webmail - http://www.v-webmail.org ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
