Steve:
I was wrong. When you remove a probe from the Probes directory, we
don't remove the probe until you restart InterMapper. The "deleted
probes" list is used when you replace an existing probe with a new
version, to handle the case where there is a probe "in flight" at the
moment you reload the probe with a newer version. The "deleted
probes" list allows the "in flight" probe to finish its older behavior.
To remove the probe from the GUI without restarting InterMapper, you
will need to replace your probe with a new version that has the
"INVISIBLE" flag set.
In the <header> section, add the following line, then reload probes.
flags = "INVISIBLE" # Not visible in probe
type menu
When you remove a probe this way, you can also specify a "new" probe
type that should be used instead. For example, you may have saved
maps with devices that used your old probe type. When InterMapper
loads those maps, you can specify the new probe type that should be
used instead. To do this, add another line to the probe's <header>
section:
referto = "com.dartware.ping"
For an example of probe referral, see "com.dartware.icmp.o". This is
the old ICMP Echo probe, before it was replaced with by the new "Ping/
Echo" probe. We still keep the old name around to handle the
situation of opening a map file that contains "com.dartware.icmp"
devices.
Regards,
Bill Fisher
Dartware, LLC
On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:06 AM, William W. Fisher wrote:
Steve:
Internally, when you remove a probe, InterMapper doesn't delete it;
we keep it around in case it is still used by a device on the map.
It is simply moved to a special "deleted probes" list.
It sounds like the probes are still showing up in the GUI, even
after they've been moved to the "deleted probes" list. I need to
double-check the code to see if that's possible. If it is, it
should be an easy fix.
Regards,
Bill Fisher
Dartware, LLC
On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Steven Good wrote:
Hi Janice,
I just checked, and there is only the one /u01/home/intermap/
InterMapper_Settings/Probes directory.
Steve
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Steve
Is it possible that there is more than one /Probes directory on
the machine
where InterMapper is installed?
Janice Losgar
Dartware, LLC
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Hi,
I made sure that no devices had the probes in use. The only map
that had
been using those probes was disabled and deleted (moved to the
deleted
folder).
The probes have also been removed from the probes directory, but
they are
still selectable even after a reload of the probes.
I do not seen any Event Log messages about this. Other than the
normal Probe
reloaded entry.
Oh well, maybe they will go away with the next upgrade?
Steve
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