We manage a big data center and 250+ WAN routers, nesting maps for us creates a big headache. Visually, managing and keep maps orderly is bad, we have to break maps into sub-maps for the simply reason of having 5, 6 or 7 icons for each single server we monitori; Host Resources, Services, TCP, DNS, DHCP (depending on the server's roles obviously).. Another example is we have one map we keep on a big screen of 250+ routers and their LAN and WAN-side circuits, it looks GREAT, however, we need to add additional probes (like jitter for example) but the map is already out of space already so we're actually holding off expanding the probes until we can consolidate probes..
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Matt Carroll Sent: Mon 5/19/2008 12:20 PM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Multi-probes for same device under one icon How well does this scale if you're watching 1,000's - or 10's of thousands - of servers, each of which might require a significant nesting? Seems like the map management metaphor would be overwhelmed, but are you (or anyone) using nesting to manage a large number of devices (e.g. servers)? Thanks -Matt On May 19, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Randy Millsop wrote: > Nested maps, using the Map Status probe, are working cleanly for > us. I don't know that we'd use this requested feature in lieu of > the Map Status approach. > > Thanks, > Randy Millsop > Network Administrator > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "CunningPike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "InterMapper Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 2:33:58 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Multi-probes for same device under one icon > > Am I the only person using nested maps for this? > > CP > > Brian Megel wrote: >> Rich, >> >> Here are my thoughts for what they are worth. >> >> >> 1) Yes. It would help us manage our maps much easier. >> >> 2) I can see an SNMP probe for a server while an HTTP probe for a web >> site on that server >> >> 3) I can also see a server running Vmware (or other virtual service) >> where you would need to ping different IP's on the same probe. >> >> 4) Separate would be nice but not a requirement as far as I am >> concerned. >> >> 5) Most definitely each probe should have its own notifier. >> >> >> Brian >> > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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