Hi Folks, just my 2 cents on this topic...
I'm still missing two features on this list discussed on this board more than once. So I think it would be nice to have something like Jon Meyers suggested on 22th Jan 2007:
It would be nice to have it web based (feature request status)...As well as the results of that survey we did a while back stating what features we wanted, assigning various points to what we wanted more...
1. The "Show Responsibilities" feature. one of my mails:
I tied again to get rid of the "traditional" stuff and replace it by the"server - console" combinationBut I switched back again to traditional because the "Show Responsibilities" stuff for the "Notification List" is still missing (or I could'n find it) inthe the console application.I need to check which devices and which probes are attached to a specificnotification in one place. Am I the only one who ist missing this feature ? But till now no one seems to be missing the this stuff.Is there any plan to get this stuff into intermappper console or remote.
I'm now using the "new" versions now but still missing this feature ! and an answer to this:
Hello JürgenThe ‘Show Responsibilities’ feature in Traditional is not yet included inthe server version of InterMapper. Development is hoping to add such a feature to a future version of InterMapper. Regards, Janice Losgar Dartware, LLC
2. "standard" acknowledgement feature for switch/router ports/ interfaces
Am 07.07.2006 um 19:13 schrieb Janice Losgar:Added "Ignore outages" flag for devices. This allows you to monitor traffic, CPU utilization, etc. for devices that are turned off or taken home overnight.Nice feature ! Thanks !Wouldn't it be also great to have such a feature for interfaces of switches?I monitor a lot of cisco switches and their interfaces.Every time a switchport goes down because a device on such a port goes down theswitch goes in a warning state.If I can use a "Ignore outages" flag on interface level everything would be much better.Greetings from Germany J. Brändle ############################################## At 8:54 AM +0200 10/13/06, Jürgen Brändle wrote:I need to acknowledge all the interfaces on a switch on which "endusers" connect and disconnect all day long.These interface are not interesting for my network health.But I don't want to acknowledge some interfaces with servers or uplinks behind.I also need the "standard" acknowledgement feature like timed or indefininite for the interfaces.We have had a couple of enhancement requests along this line, and we can certainly add yours to them.At the moment, the acknowledge for an interface is just the equivalent of the "basic" acknowledge for a device.-- Christopher
Greetings from Germany
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Am 26.01.2007 um 00:09 schrieb Richard E. Brown:
Folks:Thanks for the inquiries. Last year, Dartware ran a customer survey asking about the most highly desired features that we should add to the product. It was very useful to see which ones you valued most highly. Our suspicions were confirmed for most of them, although there were a few surprises. As a result of thesurvey:1) We are committed to bringing out the following new features this year.- Authentication Server. Gives the ability to authenticate users against aseparate database, e.g., LDAP, Radius, IAS, Active Domain, etc.- Elimination of redundant polling. A device that appears on multiple maps will share the data from a single poll, so that the physical device will only bequeried once.- Collections of probes. You'll be able to collect several different probes into a single icon. That icon will reflect the most serious condition of thesub-probes.- The ability to display switches more accurately. InterMapper will be able to find which device is attached to which port, automatically connect devices tothe proper port, etc.- Making InterMapper's data available in an SQL database. We will publish theschema so that customers can make their own analysis of the data.These will ship in separate releases over the year. We just released a prototype of the Authentication Server to selected testers. We will solicit testers and feedback for the other features in the next few months. If you would like toparticipate, please get back to me off-list.2) The survey also illuminated the need for a number of other features. Many ofthese were implemented in InterMapper 4.5, including:- Autosave. InterMapper continually saves the changes you make to the map, with an opportunity to save a backup, and restore to that version if you want todiscard changes. - New probe facilities. InterMapper now gives alarms if packet loss orround-trip times get too high. In addition, there is a preference to ignore outages on certain devices that are expected to be turned off from time to time(such as desktop machines or laptops).- Logging entries to a syslog server. InterMapper sends its Error Log files to adesignated syslog server.- Responsibilities. You can view and set the notifiers for a particular person easily. This is a highly-prized capability of the Traditional version is nowavailable for all platforms.- In addition, we did a major makeover of the appearance of the graphical user interface, enhanced the custom probe language, and added a number of otheruseful features. 3) Oh, yes. One more thing: Who won the raffle prizes? - iPod nano: Rich Battin- InterMapper T-shirts: William Weisert, Stephen Riccardi, Farrell Lecorps,James Ashe, Jim HurstWe thank you all for your support. Please get back to me with requests,suggestions, or comments. Rich Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 10 Buck Road, PO Box 130 Telephone: 603-643-9600 Hanover, NH 03755-0130 USA Fax: 603-643-2289 ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
