Bill, Thanks, I will use the INVISIBLE flag for now, that is just what I needed.
Also, it helps to understand now, how IM deals with deleted probes. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William W. Fisher Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:35 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] How do you remove a Custom Probe? 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 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:InterMapper- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janice Losgar >> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:27 AM >> To: 'InterMapper Discussion' >> Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] How do you remove a Custom Probe? >> >> >> Steve >> >> Is it possible that there is more than one /Probes directory on >> the machine >> where InterMapper is installed? >> >> Janice Losgar >> Dartware, LLC >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Good >> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:25 AM >> To: InterMapper Discussion >> Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] How do you remove a Custom Probe? >> >> 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 > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives:http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk% > 40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
