Yeah, that sounds like a good idea the way you are doing it. Personally speaking, I can not stand to have all those maps open on the top view. So, I plan on creating a shortcut on each user's desktop to point to my 'default' map which will be of our data center routers and then the user can drill down when necessary. I agree about making it as simple as possible for the help desk to 'drill' down to a downed device. Right now, we have over 700 devices that we are monitoring on one map (This was done before I was hired). The current map is useless so I am creating subnet maps and so on. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@INTERNET@HHC > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] follow-up to viewing maps via the web > browser > > > > Thanks for the response, Chris Allen > > Let me tell you what we're going to do for a work-around in order to get > the functionality that I want: > > Logging into my browser will open a default map with subnets to Remote > Offices and Corporate Offices > All linked maps below that will subsequently open up as well > Now my default map will be at the bottom of the list and the deepest > remote/corporate office maps will be at the top > With 50+ maps open, the list goes off the screen; this view is no good, as > now I have to do some scrolling just to see if something is possibly down > I need to get the maps in a top-down structure > So now, from within the browser, I unload all maps, except for the default > map, which I want to remain at the top of the browser view > Now, once again from within the browser, I load the two subnet maps, > Remote > Offices and Corporate Offices > Doing it this way only opens each of those individual maps and NOT the > linked maps below them > So now my browser view has the default map at the top, followed by Remote > Offices and Corporate Offices > I now open the next level of subnets under Remote Offices and the same for > Corporate Offices > As I continue to open maps from within the browser, each successive map > gets placed at the bottom of the list in the browser view > At last, all maps are open in the browser and the list is complete; and > the > list scrolls onto the next page > > If a switch in a Remote Office map that is on the next page goes down, I > do > not need to scroll down to find the map denoting a problem. The default > map at the top of the list will also indicate a problem somewhere in a > Remote Office. I click on the default map listing, and then I'll see that > Remote Offices is indicating a problem somewhere. I click on the next > subnet map which indicates the problem, and continue to click on the > subnet > map that will eventually lead me to the switch that is down. Kind of like > following a popcorn trail, you know? It's a lot of legwork for me to do, > but that's the process that my boss wants to go with because it's simple > enough for the help desk types to follow the map links that lead directly > to the downed device (drilling from the top down). Asthetically speaking, > you can see why I wanted to see if there was a way to do it like I wanted > to in the first place. But I guess this way will suffice. > > I also had the idea of creating a map full of subnets, one for each remote > office. I arranged all the icons geographically so that it looks like a > map of the country. The view is somewhat crowded, though, as we are heavy > on the east coast. > > Comments??????????????????? > > Chris Powers > Associate Network Engineer > Keane IT Technical Services > x1730 > > > > "Chris Allen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > Sent by: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: > switch.com Subject: RE: > [WhatsUp Forum] follow-up to viewing maps via the web > browser > > 06/11/2001 10:42 AM > Please respond to > WhatsUp_Forum > > > > > > > Chris > > I have the same problem. I don't see the point in creating subnet maps if > when you log into the WUG web you see all of the maps. One person > suggested > creating a shortcut to the particular map you are wanting. Example: > http://<wug server>/<mapname.wup.cgi> This should work. However, your > users > will have to use this link to get to the maps they need to see. Even if > you > are running WUG as a service, each map has to be loaded in order for WUG > to > monitor the devices on that map. WUG's mapping is primitive at best. I > wished they would do it like HP Open View, but then I guess they would > have > to charge more, so I'm not complaining. Let me know if you need more help. > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@INTERNET@HHC > > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:48 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] follow-up to viewing maps via the web > > browser > > > > > > Scott (and others in-the-know), > > > > You said that Console doesn't have to be up, and that I can run WUG 6.0 > as > > a service, log into WUG via the browser and tell it what maps I want to > > load. I still see a problem for my situation, though. > > > > I want to log into the web browser and see an open map called Keane > > Network > > Infrastructure with 2 subnets: 1. Remote sites 2. > Corporate > > office > > > > The way we'd like it to function is if a switch is down in Boston, then > > Remote sites on the opening map will signify the problem. I then want > to > > open Remote sites and see New England branches signify the problem. I > > then > > want to open New England branches and see the Boston site signify the > > problem. I then want to open Boston and see the equipment list for that > > site, which will show the downed switch. > > > > If my console is closed and I'm running WUG as an NT service and tell it > > to > > open my Keane Network Infrastructure map (which structures down to every > > company site), then isn't it still going to go ahead and open every map > > that links to it?? Then I get an enormous list of every site map, both > > remote and Corporate, and have to scan that list to find the problem > > remote > > site. If I can't get it such that I can navigate it in a tree-like > > fashion, then my only alternative would be to have a single map full of > > subnet icons for each company site. Do you concur? > > > > Chris Powers > > Associate Network Engineer > > Keane IT Technical Services > > x1730 > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > (See attached file: attq53er.dat) > > > - attq53er.dat << File: attq53er.dat >>
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