I second that...
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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 12:25 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [IM-Talk] four simple suggestions
Hi Dartware,
Below are four simple suggestions for improving Intermapper.
Thanks
Dennis O'Reilly
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(1) For interface name labels introduce a "Short, Port Name". For
Cisco devices this would shorten:
Ethernet1/2 to Et1/2
FastEthernet1/2 to Fa1/2
GigabitEthernet1/0/2 to Gi1//0/2
PortChannel1 to Po1
TenGigabitEthernet1/2 to Te1/2
etc.
(2) When an interface is down (red X) the device goes into alarm on
the map. A common technique is to right click on the interface to
acknowledge the interface down so that the device goes green again.
When this is done the red X changes to a blue X.
The problem with this is that the user cannot distinguish between a
down acknowledged interface and an administratively down interface,
since both have blue X's. It would be better to either keep the red X
but have a little blue acknowledge check mark beside it or change the
interface line color to blue.
(3) For Set Behavior, please remove "Ignore Appletalk Port
Information". This is confusing to new customers who probably don't
have any idea what Appletalk is or that it was was extensively used
at Dartmouth College in the last century.
(4) Also, for Set Behavior, change the default for "Ignore Interface
Discards" to on, or at least provide a global setting to change this
behavior. As has been discussed on this list in the past interface
discards are in general meaningless, and having interface discards
reported confuses customers into thinking ethernet errors are
occurring. Also, it is frustrating to always have to manually turn on
"Ignore Interface Discards" for all devices.
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