Castlerock's SNMPc scripts are a hassle, the scripting language is not very powerful, and SNMPc has no plans to update it. Even so, it's better than what I can do with Intermapper so I stick with it. But I'd like Dartware to change that. ;-)
It took me about a week to write the initial script and then a month of troubleshooting for the intricacies of each model. Yes the graphics are all individual pieces, LEDs and ports have to be painstakenly drawn so they line up exactly. In the end, it has saved us many hours and even identified a few alarms we'd have otherwise missed. Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gibby, Joel Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:46 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] What Intermapper can't do > http://public.leeschools.net/edk/snmpc.wmv How long did it take you to create those scripts? Did you have to fine-tune the position of LEDs and such on the devices? If not and adding new devices is easy, that would be really cool to see integrated. I really like the port toggling features. While we're asking for new functionality, has anyone ever used or played around with Netdisco? It's an open source network management tool with a lot of features I would love to see added to InterMapper one day (one of the biggest being Device/IP/MAC/switchport location correlation and port control): "Configuration information and connection data for network devices are retrieved via SNMP. Data is stored using a SQL database for scalability and speed. Layer-2 topology protocols such as CDP and LLDP provide automatic discovery of the network topology. Here are some of the favorite uses for this tool: * Locate a machine on the network by MAC or IP and show the switch port it lives at. * Turn Off a switch port while leaving an audit trail. Admins log why a port was shut down. * Inventory your network hardware by model, vendor, switch-card, firmware and operating system. * Report on IP address and switch port usage: historical and current. * Pretty pictures of your network. Netdisco gets all its data, including topology information, with SNMP polls and DNS queries. It does not use CLI access and has no need for privilege passwords." http://netdisco.org/ I've only installed it once and it took a lot of manual configuration, but I figured that being open source, the Dartware developers would have a good starting point if this was functionality to be implemented. ____________________________________________________________________ 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]
