On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Matt Stevens wrote:
A couple items I noticed missing from your list that seem to come
up a lot.
- Being able to ACK devices from the web interface
- The ability to expire chart data.
Any chance we'll see these soon?
We will be changing how we store the chart data. Part of this change
will include adding the ability to regularly expire chart data.
Updating the chart data model is a prerequisite for our SQL feature
target.
Being able to ACK devices via the built-in web interface is not on
the development schedule at this time.
Also I have a few comments below.
- The ability to display switches more accurately. InterMapper
will be able to
find which device is attached to which port, automatically connect
devices to
the proper port, etc.
Can this please also include the ability to not alarm over certain
"non-critical" switchports being down? We often have sites where
we'd like to leave a port on the map so we can see it's state - but
we don't really care if it's down.
I agree that would be a useful enhancement. I have put this feature
on my checklist.
- Responsibilities. You can view and set the notifiers for a
particular person
easily. This is a highly-prized capability of the Traditional
version is now
available for all platforms.
It's nice to have this, but the whole notifiers paradigm is still
backwards in my opinion. Right now you attach a notifier to a
device, and then set a bunch of parameters on that device for how
the notifier behaves.
This is problematic when you need to change those parameters on
numerous devices, across multiple maps.
It would be much better if all of the settings were on the
notifier. And you just attached devices to the notifier. So making
a change in the delay or repeat settings would affect all devices
using that notifier.
Or, for a lot more flexibility, if you could put devices in groups
and then attach notifiers to the group in the same fashion that you
currently attach a notifier to a device. This would allow you to
create groups like 'UPS' or 'Access Switches' and then assign
notifiers, and make changes to those notifiers - without having to
hand-select all those devices across multiple maps.
We're planning to call these groups "Escalations". A device will be
able to specify a shared, server-wide Escalation for its notification
rules. Those who want device-specific alerts can still specify a
device-specific escalation (ie. the current implementation).
Regards,
Bill Fisher
Dartware,
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