A cross-platform application, InterMapper RemoteAccess runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and Unix and connects to one (or many) local or remote InterMapper servers. InterMapper RemoteAccess can handle multiple copies of InterMapper simultaneously, making it an ideal choice for organizations with multi location sites, consultants who monitor client sites, and Managed Service Providers. SNMP and ping probes discover and query elements across your distributed network, whether it spans several rooms, a building, an office park, or distributed locations. You can even define specific alert conditions to occur during specific time frames, in the event you want to heighten up visibility around certain services during specific times IE: Holiday / Busy seasons or during environment issues.RemoteAccess allows you to access InterMapper and manage your network from any location. Capable of sending emails, SMS, syslog and trap messages Intermapper will be sure to keep you in the know about network events you will want to know about. No network management suite would be complete without its own alerting engine, and Intermapper’s abilities of alerting is anything but lacking. The next great piece of Intermapper is the fact it can also map out servers (and certain applications), firewalls, & access points this way your maps are not just from the individual viewpoint of the ‘network’ To take this a step further for larger networks Intermapper allows you to ‘nest’ maps or hide maps within maps allowing you setup high 1,500 foot view of your network allowing you to then drill down into specific location to closer view of any performance issues. This way Intermapper can double as your network management server providing you important health information conveniently located in from a bird’s eye view of this particular section of your network. However, don’t let me paint a bad picture the feature does work. It’s great that there is a feature for easy roll backs, but I find it a little disappointing that the feature itself is experimental to begin with.Īfter all, it is the year 2016 and reading a CDP or LLDP table should be something a bit more reliable. The CDP and LLDP feature is great, but it is marked as experimental and when you enable this feature within Intermapper it will autmatically back up the current layout of the map. Background images & Google Map integration.Connect devices using discovered CDP & LLDP information (Experimental).Outside of the layout options we have quite a few different ways to affect the map: You can choose from quite a few different layouts to choose from. Once you have completed any scans you then move forward with customizing the layout of the map, now this is where Intermapper begins to shine. Once the initial scan is done you can easily circle back around and scan any additional subnets that were discovered or even add additional subnets to the map that were outside of the limits of the initial scan, during these additional scans is when you are able to utilize a different SNMP user or community from your original scan.ĭefinitely not the most optimized way to scan with multiple SNMP credentials but it’s possible. The end results are quite nice, the initial results of your scan will have your initial subnet or seed device in the middle of the map.īranching out from there you will see any discovered subnets and discovered devices. So let’s kick off the scan and see what Intermapper finds. You can also divide the scan a bit more by defining what kind of devices you want to automatically add to the map, this can be very nifty especially if you have larger subnets with a large number of client devices. This is not a show stopper by any means, just something I stumbled upon while scanning various devices and subnets. This can make network discovery a little interesting if you do not have a standardized SNMP schema. One interesting little caveat, is that you can only define a single SNMPv2c Community or SNMPv3 user per scan.
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