I've been fussing with it some and have invented the following story to
pretend I know what's going on. ;-)
The concept of monitoring a service has been extended or adapted to include
a new stock-parts 'service' called Interface.
Whether an 'interface' is installed and working seems based on what WUG
gets back from the MIB2 smarts of your device, so SNMP traffic flows and
adequate firmware on the device to respond intelligently are requirements.
Autodiscovery and NetTools SCAN with SNMP checked appear to both be capable
of modeling a router (or switch or what have you) and probing the target
MIB to determine what interfaces are installed and among them, which are
up.
I found the following convincing - take a familar router modeled from your
old version of WUG, right click to properties > services. Got anything
listed? I think I used to have just a box checked called INTERFACE during
my early work with WUG7. If you have that, uncheck that box. Now click on
the AutoDiscover button and WUG will do its best to model what 'well known'
services that device supports. The result should be a display of the
services found to be available/supported on that box. So my routers come
back with the telnet box checked off, cause I can telnet to them, and a
bunch of communication interfaces, based on what slots are installed and
which are ifOperStatus=UP according to the interface objects in the MIB.
The interface index, description field (like Serial 1/3) and assigned IP
address are listed. The monitoring of these discovered capabilities can be
turned on or off with the check mark. And when you use the 'link to'
function back on a map, a dropdown list of interfaces is presented so you
can connect devices with more precision than before.
Unfortunately you can't create per-interface up/down dependencies (yet!),
so for my environment, there's still a need to use multiple icons to
represent a single router, (after all the router is a multi-interface
device and dependencies vary)
But overall, the interface capability and autodiscovery give better
granularity than earlier versions of the product and cleaner graphical
maps. If you go back a few weeks in the archive of this maillist I posed a
question similar to yours and got several helpful responses.
my 2 cents.
Jubel Caudill
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Please respond to
WhatsUp_Forum
Enhanced Multiple Interface Support.....this is listed as a new feature of
WUG7. I can't find any reference to it anywhere to tell how to implement
it.
suggestions greatly appreciated
Jubel Caudill
Systems/Network Administrator
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
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yes...the web interface works fine
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Does the web interface respond? Or does it look hung?
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> I just upgraded from WUG5 to WUG7 and now have no console. I realize that
if
> you are running WUG as an NT service, this is by design. I was running
WUG5
> as an NT service, however disabled the service before I upgraded to WUG7
and
> it is still disabled. Actually, I removed the service altogether.
Whenever
I
> try to start the WUG console, all I get is a new process...no console.
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Jubel Caudill
> Systems/Network Administrator
> Colgate University
> Hamilton, NY 13346
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