Hi Richard, Thanks for the reply. But I may not have been clear enough with my explanation.
The orange rectangle in my picture isn't just to group the two routers, It already is actually a link to the map for that site. I just wanted to site map to be a represented behind the two routers for the site as this is the way we draw majority of our other diagram, As a trade off am currently positioning the site map link near the appropriate routers. Am I the first to ask about this functionality? Cheers, -- Josh Atterbury Senior Network Engineer University Networks ITS, University of Queensland 07-3346-6918 On 3/12/09 3:40 AM, "Richard E. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > Josh, > > Thanks for the note. InterMapper doesn't have the ability to draw "between the > layers" - it only has two: > > - The background image > - The devices, networks and links in the foreground. > > --- Josh Atterbury wrote: > Reason is that I will be creating a separate series of maps for each of my > sites > along with a Core network view. I want to have a link to the site map and > using > a custom icon, set the link as an object behind the routers for that site. The > attached image should clarify what I mean. So I wish to set the box so it is > permanently > behind the two devicea "Letron and Synot". > --- end of quote --- > > I can see how it would be useful to draw rectangles (or other shapes) like > this > to give a visual indication that certain devices "belong together". > > But is there something else you'd want it to do? Did you want to click on that > rectangle to go to another map? > > If so, there's another way to do this: you can use the Double-click action to > tell InterMapper to go to another map. To do this: > > - Select an icon (device or network) on a map (or add a new one) > - Choose Monitor -> Set Double-Click -> URL... (or right-click to Set > Double-click > -> URL...) > - Enter a URL of this format: > > intermapper://Host:Port/MapName > > where: > > - Host is the address/DNS name of the InterMapper server that has the map. Use > $SAMEHOST$ to get to a map on the same InterMapper server. > > - Port is the port for the InterMapper server > > - MapName is the name of the map, URL-escaped (%20 for a space, %3D for a > slash, > etc) > > As an example, the Example.com demonstration submaps all have links back to > the > Example.com parent map that look like this: > > intermapper://$SAMEHOST$:8181/Example.com%20National%20Map > > Please get back to me if you have further questions. Thanks. > > Rich Brown [email protected] > Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com > 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 > West Lebanon, NH 03784-3407 Fax: 603-643-2289 > ____________________________________________________________________ > 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]
