I guess when it rains it pours for dartware ....end up becoming a wish list... Dartware seems to be taking a long break...
I don't see much on smpc....dont like to much scripting (who has the time) I wish dartware improved the database became part of the product without one having to do tricks to get data.. Showed you the data from a web GUI.... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Myers Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:37 PM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] What Intermapper can't do I might be missing something, but I don't see anything too interesting there. I'd rather double click on the switch to ssh/telnet to it like I do now, and make the changes manually. I really don't like the huge pictures of switches taking up my screen, especially when all that info is readily available in a much smaller form factor. We use Intermapper as a MONITORING tool, not a configuration tool. Once Dartware figures out how to properly do the monitoring side, then maybe if they want to jump to the configuring side, then sure... But theres a long way to go, and in the 5 years we've been with them, only meaningless/minor changes have been made. The biggest change so far has been plastering a huge "ifAlias not available" on switch ports with no description, rather than allowing it to just remain blank if its blank. So then I had to write a script to set the description on all unlabeled switch ports to a dot. If you want dynamically changing icons for various switches, perhaps setting up a script to check the switch, and whack on the database of IM to change the icon might work for you. Could be built right into a custom probe. Not quite sure why though. Of course if the custom probe scripting was a little better, you could see the model number right in the status window. The BIG thing that intermapper can't do is send meaningful alerts, like "NOC Temperature is 80 degrees", all it can do is report Alert, warning, or OK. Nor can I even update the label of a temperature device to display the temp without right clicking on it and going to status. Same applies for APs and seeing number of clients, or any other information. So thats why we're looking for a replacement for intermapper. And as for SNMPc, I really don't want to see around 800 devices actual size at the same time to get information at a glance. At 08:50 AM 8/21/2009, you wrote: >Intermapper is a great program I've been using for many years. I was an >original Mac user before Dartware migrated to Windows. But, we're always >looking for new tools and better problem identification. Here's a short >video I captured from my workstation (no audio) showing a product called >SNMPc. > >http://public.leeschools.net/edk/snmpc.wmv > >The reason I'm posting this to the Intermapper list (with their >approval) is to hopefully generate some interest from other users, so >that Dartware moves in this direction. The functionality and graphics >you'll see in SNMPc were created using scripts I wrote in their limited >SNMP scripting language. If Dartware provided similar tools, this could >be even better. > >Notice that the icons are active representations of the actual gear >deployed. By just looking at the maps you can tell what hardware you >have installed. And since it's polling via SNMP, the icon's change when >hardware is changed - no editing necessary. > >Please comment... > >Ed Konowal >Network Operations Supervisor >Lee County School District > >____________________________________________________________________ >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]
