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Out of these 7 features, please choose the 4 you most want implemented
Poll ResultsVotes
Intra-device dependencies
 
19.04%
99
Multiple-device dependencies
 
14.42%
75
Merging performance monitors with active monitors
 
13.85%
72
Web alarms : choice between the old (2006) and the new (V11) behaviour
 
5.77%
30
Device states : Normal / Warning / Critical instead of Up / Down
 
20.58%
107
Ability to control how individual device state is reflected in group state
 
10%
52
Ability to configure specific monitors so that they don't trigger device-level actions
 
16.35%
85
Member Votes: 154, Anonymous Votes: 0. You don't have permission to vote within this poll.
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Posted 5/8/2008 2:08:45 PM
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Here is one that i have stuggled with -

I would like to be able to do a "Select All" for certain things. For instance - We have a stack of Cisco 3750E switches - 5 of them. When I need to setup a Performance Monitor on a specific interface, I have to UNCHECK each interface that i DONT want to monitor. With this stack of switches, that roughly 150 interfaces i have to manual click on to get to the 1 interface I DO want.

Very frustrating.

I would also love to see a Gui for Dynamic groups, and more customizable reporting features.

Don Click
Network Manager
Denton County, Texas

Post #43598
Posted 5/12/2008 1:03:23 PM


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Merging active monitors and performance monitors would be excellent. I don't see why there needs to be one monitor for the graph data and one monitor for the threshold.

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Posted 5/14/2008 11:40:36 AM
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An other good idea...

if you would build one Monitor to Display the Load of the WUP Polling Engine! So we have every time, when we add Devices to try or error, will the Polling Engine handle this additional Load ?

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Klaus Fillbach

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Post #43793
Posted 5/15/2008 4:46:19 AM


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Klaus,

Wug does expose lots of data about itself through WMI. Just try to create a wmi perf monitor, then browse to your wug server... You'll find "Ipswitch Engine" and "Ipswitch web server"...

Reading, writing and arithmetic - If you need to choose, please take option 1.

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Posted 5/22/2008 4:52:38 AM
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We have gone above 100 votes on this, may we have a feedback from Ipswitch ?
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Posted 5/27/2008 6:29:56 AM


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WUG12 has been released. I don't see Ipswitch react on many messages in the forums. I don't even know if they really care what the users are demanding... In the IBM forums you often get answers from IBM technicians. I would like to see this happen in the Ipswitch forums!

Regards, LLS71

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Posted 5/30/2008 4:37:07 PM
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I've been away from these forums for a long time and missed out on a lot of this conversation.  I think the poll idea is great and I've dropped my top 4 votes onto the list.

Here are my most wanted, sorry if I've repeated any.

"Occurances within a period of time" and or limiter paramaters for passive monitors.    That is, if 500 identical messages come in from server X in less than a 5 minute period then only a single action (along with an occurance count) is required.  Or don't bother notifying me unless passive monitor X is triggered 10 times in a 5 minute period.

The ability to have a passive monitor put a device into an error state until acted upon by a user.  (For example: An virus notice was just sent by server X.  Put the device into an error state until my security team reviews it.)

Give us an agent component for remote servers so that we can run scripts using local securities. 

Build import/export features that would allow us users to easily share the work we've put into Item types, Home and Device Views, passive/performance/active monitors, actions, etc.

Give us a true Plug-in API so that we can write add-ons to the product for free or re-sale.

Give us graphs that can display more than 1 device's statistics at a time.

Fix the timeout issue that occurs when polling gets behind.  (Explanation: when the polling process gets behind it starts marking devices down because they don't make it to the polling queue within their required window.  This eventually snowballs and all devices end up being marked as down.  We currently fix the situation when it occurs by restarting NMService.exe.)  

Oh,  and I haven't installed version 12 yet but, if Ipswitch hasn't fixed the sort order under Passive Monitor properties to alphabetical I would really prefer it.

Give us the ability to configure the notification message from within the apply actions definition.  (I have 5 to 10 email actions defined for every member of my teams.  These include special treatment for passive vs active events and for custom messages from multiple event types on a single device.)

Let us apply individual actions "in addition to" action policies.

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Posted 5/30/2008 4:53:46 PM
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Control how individual device state is reflected in group state: Currently, as soon as ONE device in a group is down, the group becomes red. But in a given group, you might have more important and less important devices. As a quick visual clue of your network health, being able to define how an individual device will impact the group status would be nice.

Here's a semi-workaround this issue:   I've configured the Device State for "Down (Not Responding -0) to the same color that I have for up (green).  This, of course, has nothing to do with my action