Intra-device dependencies: Say you have "ping" and "smtp" and "raid-5 status" monitors on a device. If "ping" goes down and you defined action policies on individual monitors, you will receive THREE alarms. That's TWO unnecessary alarms. Intra-device dependencies would allow to define that if a specific monitor goes down, the device is really down, therefore no alarms should be sent for other monitors.

Multiple-device dependencies: Say that you have a redundant setup, for instance a spanning-tree topology. Ability to make a device up dependent on more than one device would allow for more accurate dependencies.

Web alarms: Many people don't like the new web alarms (popup that needs to be dismissed) -not very friendly for a NOC display. Others do like the popup. Being able to choose is the best way to go !

Device states: three states would give more granularity. This could be implemented for instance by associating a severity level to an active monitor (critical or not).

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.

Ability to configure specific monitors so that they don't trigger device-level actions: In some situations, alerting can be fine-tuned by using both device-global actions and active monitor-specific actions. But currently this means receiving double alarms.

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

(Some are picky, I know)

1.  I want Dynamic Groups to display status of members like regular groups can.  I realize that Dynamic Groups are only queries, but an internal mechanism could update them to reflect member status.

2.  Better NOC display features!  Just give me more options.  (And a web-page rotator is not the answer.)  The Device Group Mini Status is probably the best module to display on a screen but I can barely customize it.  Its either huge or tiny.

3.  Let me set Action Policies for Groups/Dynamic Groups that are actively applied to group memebers.  The Bulk Change option works OK, but an active policy would be awesome.  Also, let me have an Action Policy applied to a device and still be allowed to add a device level action in addition to that policy.

4.  Better control over the display of Custom Performance Monitors in the web view.  For example, if I have 4 WMI monitors on one device, they all have to be displayed with the same chart type, scale, date range, etc.  It would be nice to be able to select the custom monitors you want to display in that web content, instead of showing all of them at once.  Also, give us WMI guys some nice built-in performance reports like SNMP has.

5.  A shortcut to go directly to the Device Status page.  In the web interface I can go to home, to another device, or edit the device properties, but I cannot go back to the device status (while viewing reports, mainly).

6.  More granular control over blackout times (for alerts) and the ability to schedule non-recurring maintenance times.  Better yet, give me the option to change Action Policies during certain time periods!  (Daytime support vs On-call support)

Probably could come up with more but I hate being so negative.  I really do love WUG!

...And bump...

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