Re: [IM-Talk] Calix probes?

2013-05-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
Can I get that zip file for Calix probes? I don't see it attached to your previous post. I keep forgetting that the forum software won't pass through attachments… Try this: http://download.dartware.com/thirdparty/Calix.zip Best regards, Rich Brown

Re: [IM-Talk] EC2

2011-03-03 Thread Richard E. Brown
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:55 AM, link wrote: I would like to know if it´s necessary have enabled detailed monitoring in EC2 instance for EC2 Intermapper probe. I´ve followed the detailed installation in this link and does not work.

Re: [IM-Talk] IM Flows Reports, doing it's own thing.

2011-02-14 Thread Richard E. Brown
Randy, This is odd. I have submitted this as a bug report so we can follow-up. You will receive an acknowledgement messge soon. Thanks. Rich Brown Dartware, LLC This morning I ran 8 reports for the weekend and IM Flows Reports did a couple of things: - Changed the starting time

[IM-Talk] InterMapper 5.4 Beta 9 Available Now

2011-02-09 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, I am pleased to announce that we have another beta-test release of InterMapper incorporates the suggestions, feedback and bug fixes from the Pioneer, Alpha and early Beta testers. The two big features of this release are: * InterMapper Reports: create reports from the data in

[IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows 1.2.2 available

2011-01-14 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: We are pleased to announce that a new release of InterMapper Flows (version 1.2.2) is now available. This is final, official release, and is recommended for all customers who have InterMapper Flows. It is a no-cost upgrade for people whose InterMapper license is current. It contains a

Re: [IM-Talk] Unexpected error launching IMRA

2010-12-16 Thread Richard E. Brown
Paul, Thanks for the note. I am submitting this as a support ticket. You should see an acknowledgement shortly. Rich Brownrichard.e.br...@dartware.com Dartware, LLC http://www.intermapper.com 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 West

[IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows 1.2.2b4 available

2010-12-13 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: A new beta-test version of InterMapper Flows 1.2.2b4 is now available. The download URL is at the bottom of this message. The download page also has a temporary serial number you can use for testing. If you have downloaded a previous beta version of IM Flows, this is an important

[IM-Talk] Enabling SNMP on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

2010-11-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
We got a request from a customer, asking how to enable SNMP on his OSX computer. I figured it would be a quick Google exercise, but no... There are lots of articles out there with varying descriptions, use of the (confusing) snmpconf program, and a lot of hard-to-follow instructions. So I

Re: [IM-Talk] Flows issue: Byte count for a month is incorrect

2010-11-24 Thread Richard E. Brown
Randy, Thanks for the note. I'm not sure what's going on here. I will submit this as a bug report: you should receive an acknowledgement message shortly. Rich Brown Dartware, LLC On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Randy Baker wrote: I recently increased the size of my database from medium to large

Re: [IM-Talk] IM Flows with ASN

2010-11-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Mehmet, Thanks for the note. (I see that Janice beat me to the punch, but I'll send my note anyway...) is there a way to have IM Flows to display the current flows per ASN? Or any plans to make it work that way? InterMapper Flows currently cannot group flows by their AS number. This would

Re: [IM-Talk] looping in custom SNMP probe

2010-11-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Varun, For example,i have a SNMP device having 50 ports.Is there a way to loop through all the 50 ports without hard coding the port numbers in the custom SNMP probe. What would you like to be able to do with these ports? Rich Brownrichard.e.br...@dartware.com

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: looping in custom SNMP probe

2010-11-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:52 AM, sumo wrote: I'm also quite interested in this. The on-demand-variables are cool. But in many cases I think you want to use them as regular device-variables. So that you can set thresholds and create graphs for them. This is exactly the kind of information I'm

Re: [IM-Talk] walking through a SNMP table

2010-10-19 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, On Oct 14, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Dave Stuart and Jakob Peterhänsel wrote: So I'd like a probe that walks through hrStorageDescr instead of using the index 36 (I think that index can change, depending on the order and number of things that mount at boot time) until it either finds an

Re: [IM-Talk] Command line scripts (was: where to install)

2010-10-19 Thread Richard E. Brown
Paul, Placing a script in the Tools directory works fine for all kinds of scripts. In InterMapper 5.3, there is a new tool section that contains the source code of a companion script that is contained in the probe file itself. When InterMapper encounters a companion script in a probe file, it

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: Web Acknowledgement Error

2010-09-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Brian Gannon gann...@rgmadvisors.com wrote: Yeah. This is one of the features I really really want. The GET to acknowledge. Currently had to write a perl script to convert the get to a post and repost onto the API interface. It's not the best way to do things But it works --- end of

Re: [IM-Talk] Top Hosts Column Headings wrong in Flows?

2010-08-22 Thread Richard E. Brown
Randy, --- You wrote: In reviewing the Top Host data within the PRINTED Flows REPORT, it looks like the % Column represents Bytes In, and Bytes In represents %. Is this observation correct? --- end of quote --- I don't see this, but I'm going to make this into a support ticket. You should

Re: [IM-Talk] Calculation on result from script

2010-07-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hello Richard, Thanks for the note. InterMapper's command-line probes do not have a facility for processing the values after they've been returned from the script. Your best bet would be to have the script calculate that rate, and pass the new values back. Please get back to me if you

Re: [IM-Talk] Custom probe alarm/warning state change

2010-07-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Andrew, I don't see anything obvious in the probe/status window. I would like to take this off-line and make this into a support ticket. You'll receive a separate messages as a receipt. Best regards, Rich Brown List

[IM-Talk] Note for Mac OS X 10.5 10.6 users

2010-06-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, We have learned of a nasty bug in Apple's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that can affect InterMapper users. The symptoms are that the InterMapper GUI appears to freeze: the windows do not respond to mouse or keyboard, and people report that they have to force quit. It only happens

[IM-Talk] Customer Satisfaction Survey - A second notice

2010-06-10 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, You should all have received a note about our customer satisfaction survey. Some great feedback has already come in and we want to be sure that we've received everyone's opinion. Here is the note we sent out on Monday... Thanks in advance for all your good thoughts and suggestions.

Re: [IM-Talk] Draft: InterMapper 5.3b1 is available

2010-05-17 Thread Richard E. Brown
Janice, A couple little bloopers... 1) There was one mention of alpha test in the note. 2) The picture is of a Goblin ant... 3) We can make the next release message a little less forbidding. I don't think *this* version will kill their plants :-) No biggies... Rich

RE: [IM-Talk] RPS Monitoring on Cisco 28xx ISRs

2010-04-26 Thread Richard E. Brown
Jefferson, --- You wrote: However when I probe the OID for the AC supply directly it just outputs a number. Is there a way I can get it to translate that value like it does with the table? --- end of quote --- I think you are saying that the MIB specifies a text value that goes along with the

RE: [IM-Talk] RPS Monitoring on Cisco 28xx ISRs

2010-04-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
Jefferson, --- You wrote: Thos directions got me back some valid data. It looks like that OID sub-tree returns a table showing all the power supplies. From other probes I have I see how to put that table into the probe output. Excellent. I'm glad you got it see what you expect. ... What

Re: [IM-Talk] IP version preference selection

2010-03-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
Antonio, --- Antonio Querubin t...@lava.net wrote: ... The optimal dual-stack client behaviour trying to reach a dual-stack host is to loop through all addresses to make a connection and IM should have some means of verifying that behaviour. --- end of quote --- You're right - the proper

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: What probe to use for Cisco Nexus 5010

2010-01-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- WA6ZP wrote: Indeed. I just updated to 4.1.3 N2.1 and 64 bit counters are being updated. Thanks for the update. I'm curious, however. It still also returns 32 bit counters. Will Intermapper favor the 64 bit? If you set the device to use SNMPv2c, InterMapper will poll the 64-bit

[IM-Talk] Mibble MIB browser available

2010-01-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
From my blog... http://www.intermapper.com/resources/blogs/rich-brown?format=feedtype=rss Mibble MIB Browser available For years, I have been looking for a good tool that I can use and recommend for viewing and parsing SNMP MIBs, and for making SNMP queries on devices. There are lots of

Re: [IM-Talk] Fault isolation

2010-01-06 Thread Richard E. Brown
Dave, Thanks for the note. These are great questions and I'd like to learn more from you and the other IM-Talk readers. I've split your question into two, so we can keep the two threads separate. --- You wrote: Fault Isolation How are you handling fault isolation and notification

Re: [IM-Talk] Map status probe thresholds

2010-01-06 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: Here's the second of Dave Stempian's questions. --- Dave Stempian wrote: 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

Re: [IM-Talk] Monitoring IM Flows traffic

2009-12-22 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hello Damian, --- You wrote: All is working really well and it is fantastic. I'm glad to hear that it's working out for you. There is the occasional problem with nProbe where it will stop running and IM will receive no data from the mini. Currently the only way I see that this has

[IM-Talk] IM 5.2 (beta) has new Probe Building Facilities

2009-12-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, InterMapper 5.2 (which entered beta-test this week) has a number of facilities that make it easy to write command-line probes that monitor various devices. These are described in a tech note at: http://www.intermapper.com/assorted-topics/642-noaa-temp The tech note includes a

Re: [IM-Talk] Possible feature request/Can RemoteAccess do this?

2009-12-02 Thread Richard E. Brown
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

Re: [IM-Talk] e: bu be vbe

2009-12-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- You wrote: It's wonderfull! How did you notice that? --- end of quote --- Too many years staring at ASCII data in binary/hex dumps. :-( Certain patterns are just welded into your synapses... Glad that you're on the air. Best regards, Rich

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: About table variables

2009-11-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
I think I see what you're getting at. The table in question is the svSvcTable of the LanMgr-Mib-II-MIB. It's available at: http://www.simpleweb.org/ietf/mibs/modules/microsoft/win2000/txt/LanMgr-Mib-II-MIB Import the MIB file and create a table like the one below in your custom probe, then

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: About table variables

2009-11-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- You wrote: I fogot to add that some MIB browsers (iReasoning, for example) in response to the GET NEXT command gives both the value of a table variable and its full OID number. If so, I think that InterMapper is also capable supply these data, isn't it? --- end of quote --- I should

Re: [IM-Talk] Test: Please ignore

2009-11-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
Final message for the test List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com

Re: [IM-Talk] Re: About table variables

2009-11-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- You wrote: In your example this fild is absent, unfortunately. --- end of quote --- I don't believe that it's possible to display the full OID for the value, but I also note that the good part of the OID (after the 1.3.6.1.4.1.77.1.2.3.1.1) contains the service name as the ASCII codes

Re: [IM-Talk] Getting traffic statistics on custom probe

2009-11-24 Thread Richard E. Brown
Scott, --- You wrote: snmp-device-variables -- Following is from SNMP Traffic Probe ifInOctets, ifInOctets.1, DEFAULT, ifInUcastPkts, ifInUcastPkts.1, DEFAULT, ifInNUcastPkts, ifInNUcastPkts.1, DEFAULT, ... --- end of quote --- A couple thoughts: 1) For the traffic counts

Re: [IM-Talk] Garbage Pages

2009-09-23 Thread Richard E. Brown
Ben, --- You wrote: I'm unsure of where to start with this - so I thought the source of the page would be a good place! InterMapper. We're receiving garbage pages - about 1 in 10. Total garbage - ie I don't have the characters available on my keyboard to type them out. Anyone else

Re: [IM-Talk] False positives protection

2009-09-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Andrey, --- You wrote: But if in fact it stays like that for 3-4 runs of the probe I'd like to know even at 3am. Note that 3-4 runs of the probe does not equal 2 min (30 sec poll). If my page is out for 2 min I'm in a bigger trouble, much bigger then if it throws a 500 error for a

Re: [IM-Talk] False positives protection

2009-09-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
Andrey, OK. I see that my discussion of delayed notificaions didn't quite address your question - you're more interested in the polling algorithm. Bob Merrill's quote from the User Guide gives the details, but maybe not quite in the terms that you're asking... In fact, I believe that the

RE: [IM-Talk] Traps

2009-07-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Chris, --- You wrote: Yes - Unfortunately both IPs are that of the controlling device. The trap sent contains the IP I want, but it is not in either the agent or sender address. --- end of quote --- That's odd... Would you send along the contents of the Status Window? (Tip: right-click in

RE: [IM-Talk] Traps

2009-07-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Chris, --- You wrote: Here is a copy of the SNMP Trap viewer probe for that device. The IP address I would like this to appear to come from is in the VarBindList #6: --- end of quote --- Hmmm... I don't believe there is a way to make InterMapper treat Varbind#6 value specially. The

Re: [IM-Talk] Traps

2009-07-27 Thread Richard E. Brown
Chris, --- Chris Brizzell wrote: Can InterMapper send a trap to itself? The reason I ask, is I have a device which will send a trap to InterMapper with critical information about another device on my network. That device is unable to send a trap itself. --- end of quote --- In this situation,

Re: [IM-Talk] Cisco Aironet OID's

2009-07-17 Thread Richard E. Brown
I looked at the code of the Aironet probe, and found that it retrieves the following variables from the Cisco AWCVX-MIB. awcDot11DesiredSSIDNumAssociatedSTA awcFtClientSTASelf awcDot11TpFdbAddress awcDot11TpFdbAID awcDot11TpFdbClientState awcDot11TpFdbLatestRxSignalStrength

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper crashing

2009-06-19 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Walter, --- Christopher Sweeney wrote: According to the error message you noted, you're running 5.1, not 5.1.2. This is key, as this problem was addressed in 5.1.1. --- end of quote --- You can always get the latest version of InterMapper (5.1.4 at the moment) from this URL:

[IM-Talk] Second Invitation: WMI Focus Group, Monday 18 May

2009-05-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: [In case you missed the previous note...] We are looking for customer input into what a WMI Feature in InterMapper would provide. We plan to have a focus group session where customers can participate in a conference call to chat with Dartware folks. The session will run about an

Re: [IM-Talk] Invitation: WMI Focus Group

2009-05-12 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Andrey Gordon agor...@i2c.com wrote: Is this Poll in EST time zone? --- end of quote --- Yes, the poll is Eastern US time (actually, EDT at this time of year). Thanks! For those of you who haven't had a chance to sign up, here's the link again: http://doodle.com/84pcb75pfxa7955f

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows 1.1b4 is available

2009-05-01 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Peter, --- You wrote: Has there been any further movement on slfow working with the DLINK x stack series of switches. --- end of quote --- I will follow up with you privately on the ticket in RT. Thanks. Rich Brownrichard.e.br...@dartware.com Dartware, LLC

Re: [IM-Talk] Half duplex and 10half

2009-03-27 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, The Set Link Speed... window helps InterMapper compute link utilization. (It obviously does not change the speed or duplex setting of the real interface.) This window has settings for the expected transmit and receive speeds for the link so you can _override_ the ifSpeed reported by

Re: [IM-Talk] What does the InterMapper Engine Status probe provide ?

2008-12-15 Thread Richard E. Brown
Xavier, Thanks for the note. --- You wrote: I've discovered the new IM probe: InterMapper Engine Status. It shows some technical informations and the efficiency of the engine but Could you tell us how that's done and for what value we can say that the server is not fast enough ? What

Re: [IM-Talk] Probe for Adobe Flash Media Server

2008-12-03 Thread Richard E. Brown
John: --- John Ratcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have an Intermapper probe that monitors the Adobe Flash Media server (RTMP) on TCP port 1935? I could not find a built in one or any details on the TCP protocol format. --- end of quote --- InterMapper doesn't have a probe for

Re: [IM-Talk] Different Notifier Delays for Alarm/Warning vs Critical/Down/Up

2008-12-03 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Jefferson Cowart wrote: ... The only way I can see to do it is to create a second notifier contact, but I was hoping for something a little less kludgy. --- end of quote --- Yes, the only way to do this would be to set up a second notifier that could have the delayed notification and check

RE: [IM-Talk] Map Folders

2008-10-08 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Andrey, --- You wrote: Iirc, map folders where implemented in 5.0.5. is that right? I can(c)$F6t find anything in the manual on how to create a folder. Is there a quick note on that? --- end of quote --- You can create those folders in the InterMapper Settings/Enabled Maps tab. The User

[IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows 1.0 is now available

2008-09-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: It is with considerable pride that Dartware announces the availability of InterMapper Flows 1.0. This is a NetFlow traffic analyzer that is integrated directly into InterMapper. With InterMapper Flows, you can see not only when traffic is high, but who is sending it and what

[IM-Talk] Updated Vista Installer for InterMapper Flows

2008-09-23 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: We have updated the Windows Vista installer for InterMapper Flows. This fixes the installation problem previously described. The new installer can be found at the URL below. http://dartware.com/downloads/binaries/imflows.html The software that gets installed is identical to

[IM-Talk] Dartware is hiring

2008-09-23 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: Dartware is currently looking for several people. The jobs are described at http://dartware.com/jobs If you know anyone who could be qualified for these positions, please pass this note along to them. Many thanks! Rich Brown[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC

[IM-Talk] New InterMapper Flows build available

2008-09-22 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: There's a new version of InterMapper Flows available, version 0.99b, build 3235.1, dated 21 September 2008. This is a good time to retrieve a copy and check it out. We think you'll find it to be quite reliable. We have received some great suggestions for enhancements. However, we

RE: [IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows sFlow

2008-09-16 Thread Richard E. Brown
Joel (and others), Thanks for the note. --- Gibby, Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any timeline for sFlow collector implementation? We're an Extreme/HP shop. --- end of quote --- We have scoped out the effort required to do sFlow, but decided we would incorporate it after we shipped the

[IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows Video - a quick introduction

2008-09-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: I wanted to point out the short introductory video that shows off what InterMapper Flows will do. It's at: http://dartware.com/downloads/viewvideo.html?file=imflows Rich Brown[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 66-7

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper Flows Video - a quick introduction

2008-09-11 Thread Richard E. Brown
://www.dartware.com 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 West Lebanon, NH 03784-3407 Fax: 603-643-2289 --- Forwarded Message from Richard E. Brown --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Brown) Date: 10 Sep 2008 16:10:27 -0400 Subject: [IM-Talk] New InterMapper Feature - NetFlow Add

Re: [IM-Talk] MacOSX problem dartware.tableviewer

2008-09-10 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Hans, --- You wrote: I have the impression that I am missing MacOSX files when decompressing com.dartware.tableviewer-1.zip. --- end of quote --- No, I believe that they're all there. The first five files: IP-MIB-rfc2011.txt IP-FORWARD-MIB-rfc2096.txt BRIDGE-MIB-rfc1493.txt

[IM-Talk] New InterMapper Feature - NetFlow Add-on - Call for Testers

2008-09-10 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: We are beginning a public test period for a new NetFlow Analysis feature. This feature, called InterMapper Flows, is an add-on to InterMapper that will allow you to see what kinds of traffic are flowing on your network, as well as which hosts are sending (or receiving) that traffic.

Re: [IM-Talk] Creating links to parent maps

2008-08-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: I have updated the description of how to create a Double-click URL for an icon that links to a parent map. It is now on the KnowledgeBase at this URL: http://forums.dartware.com/viewtopic.php?p=910 Please get back to me if you have any questions. Thanks. Rich Brown Dartware,

[IM-Talk] Creating links to parent maps (was: re: Peculiar Map Probe Problem)

2008-08-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
Kevin, --- Kevin Wigle wrote: We use many map probes on many maps as a way to get around. We have an tiered map system which is used like a table of contents. ... (though sometimes I wish there was a simple map jump that didn't change color to reflect the worse case device) --- end of quote ---

[IM-Talk] InterMapper Crash on Linux Solved

2008-07-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: InterMapper versions 4.6.4 through 5.0.2 have a bug that can affect customers running on a Linux system. The symptoms are that on 24 July 2008, InterMapper could become unresponsive or crash and not restart. This bug affects only certain Linux systems, and will not affect Windows or

Re: [IM-Talk] Multi-probes for same device under one icon

2008-06-06 Thread Richard E. Brown
Thanks to all who have submitted their thoughts about multiple probes per icon. This topic is an current discussion within Dartware, and we will begin design sessions shortly. If you have thoughts about how you could use this feature, it is a very good time to send us a note. As a

[IM-Talk] Custom Probe Developers?

2008-05-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: From time to time, Dartware receives requests for custom probes that we cannot handle in a timely manner If you have created some interesting probes for InterMapper and might have time to handle consulting opportunities, please contact me off list. Many thanks. Rich Brown

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper 5.0 is available

2008-05-21 Thread Richard E. Brown
Jeff: Thanks for the note. --- Jeff Kell wrote: So has netflow disappeared into the great real soon now cloud in the sky? :-) --- end of quote --- We have started private testing with the netflow product. It's going well. However, we learned a lot from these first tests. It's probably going

Re: [IM-Talk] Multi-probes for same device under one icon

2008-05-09 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: I'd like to ask a few more questions re: multiple probes per icon. You can respond to the list, or directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Rich Brown[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 10 Buck Road, PO Box 130 Telephone:

Re: [IM-Talk] Multi-probes for same device under one icon

2008-05-08 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Michael Luzadder wrote: How close are we to getting a single icon to represent multiple probes on the same device? (like a mail server; one probe for host resources, another probe for snmp, another for http, etc..) --- end of quote --- I'm actually working on a specification for this now.

[IM-Talk] InterMapper 5.0b9 is available

2008-05-07 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: A new public beta version of InterMapper 5.0b9 is now available. We would be delighted to have you use it and send us comments and bug reports. NOTE: Although this beta-test version is stable, it is still in testing. We encourage you to install it on a separate server. To help with that

[IM-Talk] On-demand Table Maker

2008-04-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: [This is a follow-up to the probe for CDP - Cisco Discovery Protocol? thread] We recently created an On-demand Table Maker web page that creates a table similar to the one Chris Romo submitted. It's at: http://dartware.com/support/tech_notes/cprobes/tablemaker.html To use it: -

Re: [IM-Talk] SNMP Probe Calculations?

2008-04-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
A follow-up on the earlier messages: --- Tim Streater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpu.u, 1.3.6.1.4.1.3097.6.3.4.0, INTEGER, CPU Load cpu.util, ${cpu.u} / 100, CALCULATION, CPU Load --- end of quote --- I note that the Developer Guide (see

Re: [IM-Talk] SNMP Probe Calculations?

2008-04-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Jon, --- You wrote: I really don't know why there is a separate chartable keyword, as you can still chart variables when they are just printed. But Dartware has always had a problem with consistency, and strange oddities like this. --- end of quote --- The default is to show/chart only the

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper 5.0b4 is available

2008-04-05 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Anthony, --- You wrote: I might take the opportunity to change our IM server platform from Windows to Linux, the plan being to install this beta on a new CentOS server and then upgrade that to the final release when it comes out. Will we be able to use/exchange our Windows license key in

[IM-Talk] InterMapper 5.0b4 is available

2008-04-02 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: The first public beta version of InterMapper 5.0b4 is now available. We would be delighted to have you use it and send us comments and bug reports. NOTE: Although this beta-test version is stable, it is still in testing. We encourage you to install it on a separate server. To help with

RE: [IM-Talk] InterMapper version 5 Netflow

2008-03-26 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: I wanted to let you know what we're doing with Netflow in InterMapper. Dartware is working on a network flow monitoring package called InterMapper Flows. It will be integrated into the InterMapper RemoteAccess user interface to display the traffic from one or many flow exporters. You'll

Re: [IM-Talk] Intermapper version 5 Netflow

2008-03-14 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: The Netflow feature of InterMapper will handle Netflow v1, v5, and v9 protocols in its initial roll-out. It is not based on the Scrutinzer software. Please get back to me if you have further questions. Thanks! Rich Brown[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC

Re: [IM-Talk] IPv6 support?

2008-03-12 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Mike, Thanks for the note. --- You wrote: Does anyone know if the latest version of InterMapper does support devices in IPv6 address space? If not is there a timetable for its inclusion in further releases? --- end of quote --- The current shipping version of InterMapper (4.6.8) does not

[IM-Talk] New Probe: Dell PowerEdge Server using OpenManage

2008-01-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
The Dell Server Probe is now available on the Dartware site. Here's a brief description: Joe Vogt of Electronic Arts contributed a probe for Dell PowerEdge servers that works with any Dell server with OpenManage 4.0 and above installed. This is a comprehensive system state monitoring probe that

Re: [IM-Talk] Dell Server Probe

2008-01-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Jefferson, --- You wrote: I have some dell servers with OMSA installed. I found a probe online that should be able to get the information from OMSA to monitor the server. (http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk@list.dartware.com/msg02687 .html). --- end of quote --- The line breaks in

Re: [IM-Talk] InterMapper 4.6.6 is available

2008-01-14 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Jakob Peterhansel wrote: Seems like 4.6.7 was just released, according to MacUpdate... --- end of quote --- Yes. We just updated the RSS feed ( feed://dartware.com/dartware.xml ), and the IM-Talk and IM-Announce messages will go out tomorrow. Or go to the download page at

[IM-Talk] Interface alerts (was Routers with Failover link)

2008-01-07 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Jakob Peterhansel wrote: We have just deployed some new SonicWall TZ 190 Wireless firewalls, that has a failover function on a 3G (PC Card) port. When this failover is not used, it disconnects the link, and shows the link as 'down'. Now, that is technically right, but from an operational

RE: [IM-Talk] Couple of Questions - Redundant Polling and Command Line Probes

2008-01-03 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Tony Mumm wrote: In regards to making a returned variable appear as not graph able: I tried the ${eval} route, and all it displays now is 0. So I guess it wants to evaluate that text as an expression of some kind. --- end of quote --- Yes, you're right - you want to force the value into a

[IM-Talk] InterMapper 4.6.5 is available

2007-12-18 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: A new version of InterMapper 4.6.5 is available. This final, official release is recommended to all customers, and is a free upgrade for anyone with a current maintenance contract. It has several useful features and a number of bug fixes: - Updates to work with MacOS X (Leopard).

[IM-Talk] Newsletter available

2007-12-06 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: We recently sent out a newsletter that had a number of articles that might interest you IM-Talk'ers. They include: * InterMapper Helps One Family Reduce its Carbon Footprint * InterMapper Database Enhancement * Hardware Survey * Training: Custom Probe

Re: [IM-Talk] Good reasons for discards (was: Question about snmp probe counter makeup)

2007-10-08 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Doug Veldhuisen wrote: I am guessing since we are using Qos policies on these routers, I'm seeing QoS drops, but not sure. --- Christopher Sweeney wrote: It's ifOutDiscards in the ifTable. In theory, I think, the discards should indicate packets discarded because of things like resource

Re: [IM-Talk] Intermapper Lies?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi David, Thanks for the note. --- You wrote: Just now I have received a message from Intermapper where it is trying to convince me that it is getting a Round Trip time of 3794328 msec, which is just over one hour. --- end of quote --- A RTT of an hour is clearly not credible. I'd like to get

[IM-Talk] InterMapper 4.6 Available

2007-07-30 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: Dartware is pleased to announce the availability of InterMapper 4.6. This is a final, official version of the software, and is recommended for all customers. This release is a no-cost upgrade for everyone whose maintenance contract is currently in force. InterMapper 4.6 brings a host of

Re: [IM-Talk] Short term packet loss - Again

2007-07-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi Sam, Thanks for the note about InterMapper 4.5 reporting packet loss that didn't seem to be occur when using other tools. InterMapper 4.5.1 contains a bug fix that addressed this symptom. Recommendations: - Upgrading to InterMapper 4.5.8 should solve this - your description is

Re: [IM-Talk] The security certificate expired on Wed May 02 11:55:54 EDT 2007

2007-05-29 Thread Richard E. Brown
Kevin: --- You wrote: Will this go away if I upgrade to 4.5.6?? If not, can I get rid of it without installing our own certificate? --- end of quote --- You can upgrade to 4.5.8 to get a new certificate. Rich Brown Dartware, LLC

RE: [IM-Talk] Custom Probe Builder App-Part 1

2007-05-17 Thread Richard E. Brown
Manny, Pedro, Jon: Thanks for the comments. It's true that we abandoned the old Custom Probe Builder program: despite the GUI, it wasn't very easy to use. It also got left behind with the changes - and significant enhancements - that we were adding to the custom probe facilities. --- Manny

[IM-Talk] Building Custom Probes - Part 2

2007-05-17 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: I wanted to follow up on the obvious desire for improving InterMapper's ability to create custom probes. I'm curious about how you use InterMapper's custom probe facilities today: - How many of you are making custom probes? - What equipment are you testing? - Do you ever use the

Re: [IM-Talk] Custom Probe Building Requests

2007-05-17 Thread Richard E. Brown
Dave: Thanks for these comments. They're quite helpful. --- Dave Bosso wrote: A built in mib browser would be really useful. --- end of quote --- I'm starting to use the Mibble MIB browser program. (http://mibble.org) It's open source and free (GPL), and is Java-based, so virtually any

Re: [IM-Talk] Xserve RAID Monitor?

2007-04-04 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Ryan Stern wrote: So, any word on when Intermapper might be able to monitor Apple's Xserve RAID hardware? --- end of quote --- Seek and ye shall receive - it's there now. We added it into the 4.5.5 version of InterMapper that we shipped in February, along with a number of MacOS X Server

Re: [IM-Talk] Probe for MGE UPS?

2007-03-28 Thread Richard E. Brown
Hi, Mike: --- Mike Dustan wrote: Has anyone done this for an MGE? Or shall I start learning to write a probe? --- end of quote --- We can work with you get a probe going. The first step is to figure out what you want it to do. Check out the Three Important Questions on this page...

RE: [IM-Talk] /31 network masks

2007-03-02 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: Thanks for the spirited discussion of how you use various kinds of subnets. It's helpful to hear all this so that InterMapper can do the right thing for our customers. In pursuit of this goal, I'd like to expand the discussion so that we can understand all the possibilities. 1)

[IM-Talk] Forum Software (was: New feature request list)

2007-01-26 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: --- Allyn Crowe wrote: rather than phpbb which is an exploit heaven I would use simple machines : http://www.simplemachines.org/ --- end of quote --- We have been mulling over which forum software to use, so comments like these are useful. Any other comments? Rich Brown

Re: [IM-Talk] New feature request list

2007-01-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks: Thanks for the inquiries. Last year, Dartware ran a customer survey asking about the most highly desired features that we should add to the product. It was very useful to see which ones you valued most highly. Our suspicions were confirmed for most of them, although there were a few

RE: [IM-Talk] InterMapper 4.5 icons

2006-10-19 Thread Richard E. Brown
John: --- You wrote: I would like to see some Laptop icons the same way you put the Workstation Icons. We have alot of Apple Laptops so an iBook would be great. --- end of quote --- Do you have a link to an image that's similar to what you want? It can be bigger than needed, but it really helps

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