Tom, I will offer a solution, but before I prepare that, read below. If you are wanting to cycle through maps so that you can see devices down on those maps visually, I would like to say there is a much easier way. If WUG maps are designed in a hierarchial manner, you could build a "Top map" with containers that are associated with those other maps. If any device goes down on any of those maps, that container will change shape and color. You could simply click on that container and see exactly which device is down. Or, you can implement the scrolling marquee that reflects the state of all loaded maps (depends on the scroll code you are using). When a device goes down, you can cause the name of the device and its location to scroll across the screen. I have implemented this as many others have done. I also have the number of missed polls, which changes to how many minutes the device has been down after a certain number of polls. In order to pull the output of other servers, you can use a Perl script, or a language/OS called Rebol. Rebol is almost fits on a floppy, but is very powerful. This part is a little more time consuming, but I may be able to help in the not too distant future. Time consuming: An hour or two. Anthony Franklin, Network Engineer University of West Florida Information Technology Services 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Cozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/28/2003 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Auto Cycle Through Maps...
I want to setup our big-screen WhatsUp monitor to cycle through different maps
on the WhatsUp Gold server(s). Additionally, I want the monitor to pull different
web-based map pages from different servers. For example, the browser would display a
map of the United States for 20 seconds, then display a different local map for 20
seconds, and so on. After displaying 4 or 5 maps, the cycle would start all over
again. Is anybody doing anything like this. I know you can do this with KVM switches,
but I don't want to do this with hardware. In that case, the monitor would need to be
connected to the servers. I want to be able to do this from any PCs browser.
thanx, tom...
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