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Spotlight: InterMapper Network Monitoring Software

By // October 15, 2009, 1:01 AM PST

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  • InterMapper Control Center

    Running as a system tray task, the InterMapper Control Center performs the monitoring tasks and provides a launch pad for the InterMapper application.

    For a full review of InterMapper Network Monitoring Software, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Map List

    Clicking on the Open InterMapper button in the previous screen brings up the Map List. The Map List provides easy access to any maps you have created and saved.

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  • New Wizard: Screen 1

    Creating a new map only takes a few easy steps. The first step is naming the map.

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  • New Wizard: Screen 2

    The next step in creating a new map is choosing the method of discovery. You are able to automatically search, enter a manual list, or import a file of addresses.

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  • Automatic Discovery

    To do an automatic discovery, simply enter a starting address or subnet and InterMapper will find any systems within a single hop from the entered address.

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  • Main Window - Scanning

    Once the discovery process is started, InterMapper takes you to the main window, where the scanning begins.

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  • Main Window

    After the scan is complete, all devices in the specified discovery task are shown in a list format.

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  • Map View

    Another feature of InterMapper is a graphical view of the devices on the network. This can help to visualize device relationships.

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  • Alert Settings

    You are also able to specify alert events on this window.

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  • Monitor Menu

    Among other menus is the Monitor menu. Within the monitor menu is the Set Probe feature where you can specify which probe type (Ping, HTTP, FTP, DNS, etc) you want to use to monitor a specific device.

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  • Set Probe

    Here is the screen where the probe type is chosen. You can see a list of the probe type groups listed here.

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InterMapper Control Center

Running as a system tray task, the InterMapper Control Center performs the monitoring tasks and provides a launch pad for the InterMapper application.

For a full review of InterMapper Network Monitoring Software, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

Image created by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic.

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