sorry this is so late on the discussion, but here's the notes we've
put together on this:
1) Would you have a use for multiple probes in the same icon? Why is
this
feature important to you?
Two cases we've thought of:
A campus map using an image of the campus, where each building had an
icon that covered it's wireless, wired, etc. total set of devices.
Not so useful to the campus networking staff, but could be a nice
thing to use as an overview for administrative types. This would not
be a compelling case IMO, just something we might be able to do if the
feature were offered. this would require the icon to allow probes to
multiple IP addresses.
For servers -- we often have multiple things on one box, and currently
build a separate probe for each. We would love to get only one page
if the host itself goes down instead of 3 or 4. This would usually all
be to one IP address, unless we're using virtualization.
2) What probes might you put together into a single icon? How many
different
combinations of probes might you create? (We'd love to have some
concrete
examples.)
for the campus map, I would see ping as well as custom tcp probes
(that's how we monitor our wireless)
for the server we would want ping for the host, mysql, dhcpd and
radiusd as an example of one box we have.
3) For your examples, would all the probes refer to the same IP
address/DNS
name, or would certain probes test one address, while others would
test a
different address?
The stronger desire is the server one, which would be to a single IP.
the campus map idea would need multiple IPs for the same icon.
4) For your examples, would all the probes be executed at the same poll
interval, or would you want certain probes to have their own poll
interval?
same poll interval would be fine.
5) For your examples, would one set of notifiers apply to the entire
collection,
or would you want certain probes to have their own set of notifiers?
for the ones I'm thinking of a single set of notifiers would be fine.
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-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
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