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| I am trying to map a large WAN - 250 sites connected to a single central site.
This is too much info to fit on a single map.
Has anybody done mapping on this scale before using WhatsUp?
Any suggestions on layout etc would be appreciated.
Regards,
Bj |
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| Well, I might create a map for each country (state) that has your sites and then put the devices into the country/state map that it actually resides in. If this means you end up with 250 maps, that may not be a great help... but if you end up with 5-15 maps, it might be what you need. Or you could create maps based on function. One map for 'printers' another for 'web servers' and another for 'mail servers'. As for WU discovering all the sites/devices, the time it takes to do the discovery is dependent on: Number of devices, number of monitors to be checked on each device, the network speed, speed and operating system that WU is running on. WU is certainly able to find thousands of devices, but that may take several hours. If the IP addresses of each site are fixed and grouped, then maybe you want to discover them using IP Range Scan and that would create a map for each group of IPs you give WU. If this is really WhatsUp Professional, then you can create any number of groups you want or need and move devices from one group to another, at will. Daniel Donnelly |
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| Thanks Daniel,
I did consider creating separate maps - one per region and then one for each site.
The problem is how to get a simple, visual representation of a downed device on a single map.
For example, If my top-level map was one showing the regions, I would want to see if any device in a region was down by the icon for the region changing. Remembering that each region contains many sites, the number of dependencies to be established and maintained is daunting.
Auto discovery is not useful in this situation since it cannot arrange things by region, only by subnet.
I am still testing different scenarios, but it doesn't look promising.
Regards,
Bj |
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| Just my $0.02 worth, so take it as you like.
Since we don't generally cross subnets over different locations we can separate the locations out by subnet.
if you were to do a scan of the entire organization then separate out the subnets and assign them to a map, you might get the effect you are looking for.
For my organization, a single huge map wouldn't work, the over 5000 devices would not fit on the map well as they were so small, it wasn't worth the effort, and the length of time waiting to draw the map was, well, daunting at best.
We ended up with a "continental" type scenario. A large map of the world, a group for each continent, then each country, then each political subdivision, etc. down to the office level.
Seems to be very helpful to us.
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| I think the other posts are leading you in the right direction. Create geographic groups and then map by those areas. See the attached picture monitoring over 800 sites....
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