This gets my vote, for exactly the same reasons. CP
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 09:52 -0400, Andrey Gordon wrote: > Hi dear Dartware, > > > Please, consider this a feature request (I think I've asked for this > before). > Please, add an option to disable display of newly discovered > interfaces on a device when it's re-probed. > I'l > give you and exmaple of how displaying newly discovered interfaces is very > bad: > > > On > a map, when device is added (e.g. Cisco CAT 4509) and only uplinks are > displayed IM goes and re-probes the device every so often. Let's assume that > I added that device when it had no line cards. In other words had only two > uplink interfaces. Imagine that this is my L3 map that only shows me routers > and switches and no end devices. Everything looks great. I then install 5 > line cards into the the switch at 48 ports each. Intermapper goes and > reprobes the switch and finds 240 new interfaces which it happily displays on > the map automatically. > > > The result is the map is a complete mess. I have to track down all > those new interfaces and disable them. > > > Now imagine that for some reason this device is present on multiple > maps. Now I have to do this on all maps!!!! > > > > > So, please add an option to disable autodisplay of interfaces on a > map. > > > Thank you > __________________________________________________________ > Andrey Gordon | Integrity Interactive | Network Engineer | > +1.781.398.3518 >
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