This is kind of the idea I have mentioned a few times during the betas... I feel for you.. I have 130+ offices and many devices that are customers controlled and my map looks like death a lot of the time. (currently only 2 items down and 4 services, out of about 10,000 not too bad). Over the years I have relied on email notifications while at work and that has worked for me. I only have maps by regions (11) so topview only has 18 maps. I know people who like to scroll the topview and understand it would really look messy.
One thing I would like to see (would build it if I had time) is to add another field like the notes filed and allow admins of the map to add info there about why an item is down. It would make it a lot easier on other people looking at the down item to tell what is going on without asking around the support group or calling since there is about 50 of us in about four time zones. Then on x numbers of up polls the map would clear that item field and archive it. That would make keeping track of who has called on what and so on a lot easier. Anyway you might be able to add another column on topview and list devices down by device type(s). Then just make custom type for client controlled devices. Hmmm... you know I never thought of that.....?? Tv -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Warnock Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring by type using Color We are currently using What's up in a "drill down" approach to the mapping so that our top level maps gives us a instant overview of the network (pretty common I imagine). We have an issue whereas we monitoring some devices that are "customer controlled" which means occassionally they will turn off their device causing our top level mapping to look like a major problem (red) when really it is minor. I am trying to figure out is there is any way to place a "priority" or color on the individual objects in the submaps so that I can easily tell by color on the top level map what is currently going on. Kind of like when a service is down the icon changes to purple. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve Warnock Advanced Computer Connections 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/ 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/
