Randy, Thanks for the note.
> I would like to be able to assign levels of Vantage Points to devices on a > map. > > For example, I have a map that contains a Firewall, a Router, some switches, > and a device. > > I would like to assign the Firewall a value of Zero, the Router a Value of > One, the switches and dependent device a value of Two. > > > - If the firewall goes down, I only want one message that the > firewall is down. I do not need to know that I can no longer communicate > with the router, switches or devices. > > - If the router goes down, I only want one message that the router > is down. I do not need to know that I can no longer communicate with the > switches or devices. > > - If a switch goes down, I want to know what switch went down along > with what devices/services attached to the switch are affected. This is what the Vantage Point facility is designed to do. I've made a map that demonstrates this. Use IM RemoteAccess to connect to our "Public Demo" InterMapper server at: IM Server: intermapper.dartware.com Port: 8181 Login: set to auto-login as guest In the "Sample Deployments" folder, there's a "Deployment-Vantage Point" that shows the principle. Whenever the router goes down (to force this, reprobe with Ctl/Cmd-K), the firwall and switches are dimmed, and any outage alerts will be suppressed. (You can tell because the icons are greyed out...) Whenever the firewall goes down, alerts for outages for the switches will be suppressed. The trick is to position an icon with the "Vantage Point" at the proper place in your network map. (That's the icon with the star on it.) InterMapper uses the location of the vantage point to compute the reachability topology for the network, and it suppresses notifications dependent devices when an upstream device fails. Please get back to me if you have further questions. Thanks. Rich Brown [email protected] Dartware, LLC http://www.intermapper.com 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 West Lebanon, NH 03784-3407 Fax: 603-643-2289
