All, I have been a user and champion of InterMapper for over 10 years. In my current organization, there is a very real chance that InterMapper could serve as our primary NMS. Currently, InterMapper is referenced as a "backup" to our primary NMS, Spectrum. I maintain InterMapper in parallel to helping maintain our primary NMS. InterMapper doesn't take much care and feeding beyond moves/adds/changes and hiding the extraneous newly-discovered interfaces that magically show up on maps.
There are a few items on our desired features list that I wish I could defend InterMapper against. Unfortunately, I can't. Perhaps some of you might be willing to offer your advice on the following two items? Fault Isolation How are you handling fault isolation and notification suppression, especially in multi-homed networks? The "vantage point" solution has been useless for us. Our current NMS, Spectrum, handles fault suppressions well and automatically. If InterMapper is ever to replace Spectrum as our NMS, I need suppression of notifications to work better. Our engineers get cranky when they are awoken in the middle of the night from errant and extraneous pages. Even the ability to set manual dependencies would be welcome. Map Status Thresholds Suppose I have a map status probe for a map that contains 2000 wireless APs. I don't want a critical notification for the map status probe if only one of that map's devices goes down (or into alarm/warning/etc). I wish there could be a way to say, "set critical alarm if 100 devices within this map are down", or, "set warning if 10% of devices within this map are down", or something else to that effect. That would be very useful. As it is, we're forced to receive a critical notification each time a device that we deem to be low priority, such as APs or desktop switches, goes down. For these devices, I only want to receive notification for a major or catastrophic condition. Thanks in advance for your interest and help! -- Dave Stempien University of Rochester Medical Center Information Systems Division Networking/Security/Communications (585) 784-2427 ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
