In point of fact, you can monitor device or service status on different maps, only polling the network once. To do it, set up a device on a separate map to poll the original device via service check only to 127.0.0.1 (the server's loopback address). Create a custom service based on an HTTP content scan to scan an ASP page, looking for a particular status. By doing this, you poll the server itself to find out what it knows about a device or service on a different map.
You could use this to create a special icon for a unique view of a business process; the icon could have service checks for a number of different routers and switches, as well as services on one or more servers. This could reflect all the key components for a particular business function. Use your imagination. For device status, call deviceup.asp using the following custom check. You'll have to replace "yourmap" with the map name, "yourdevice" with the device name, and "authenticationstring" with the unique authentication string (see http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-20010522-DM01.htm for details). No spaces allowed in name. Send=GET /deviceup.asp?map=yourmap.wup&device=yourdevice HTTP/1.0\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: Ipswitch_Whatsup/4.0\r\nAuthorization: Basic authenticationstring\r\n\r\n Expect=~.*is UP Deviceup.asp as follows: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body> <%CURRENT_MAP% (%URL_VALUE% map)> <%START_DEVICE_LIST%> <%IF% (%MATCH% (%DEVICE% HOSTNAME, %URL_VALUE% device))> <%IF% IS_DEVICE_UP> <P><%DEVICE% HOSTNAME> <nbsp> is UP</P> <%ELSE%> <P><%DEVICE% HOSTNAME> <nbsp> is DOWN</P> <%ENDIF%> <%ENDIF%> <%END_DEVICE_LIST%> </body> </html> For service status, use serviceup asp with the following custom check (replace as in device status; also replace "yourservice" with whatever service you're checking). Again, no spaces allowed, nothing allowed in comments. Send=GET /serviceup.asp?map=yourmap.wup&device=yourdevice&service=yourservice HTTP/1.0\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: Ipswitch_Whatsup/4.0\r\nAuthorization: Basic authenticationstring\r\n\r\n Expect=~.*is UP Serviceup.asp as follows: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body> <%CURRENT_MAP% (%URL_VALUE% map)> <%START_DEVICE_LIST%> <%IF% (%MATCH% (%DEVICE% HOSTNAME, %URL_VALUE% device))> <%START_DEVICE_SERVICE_LIST%> <%IF% (%MATCH% (%SERVICE% FULLNAME, %URL_VALUE% service))> <%IF% IS_SERVICE_UP> <P><%SERVICE% NAME> <nbsp> is UP</P> <%ELSE%> <P><%SERVICE% NAME> <nbsp> is DOWN</P> <%ENDIF%> <%ENDIF%> <%END_DEVICE_SERVICE_LIST%> <%ENDIF%> <%END_DEVICE_LIST%> </body> </html> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Symons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] snmp polling If a device is mapped twice (both on the same map or on differant maps) then it will be polled twice. This can be useful when setting up multiple polling windows (ie, HTTP server polled 24 hours a day but database on same device supposed to be available 23.5 hours per day). WUG 8.0x does not provide for aliasing, etc, between such copies. Mark Symons IPswitch, Inc Augusta GA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthias Gruber Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] snmp polling hello, if i duplicate a snmp device and have it polled on two different maps, will WUG do two complete polls or will it poll only once. if two polls, is it possible to have some kind of device-softlink/-alias? tia. matthias 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/ 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/
