What's New in InterMapper® 5.0.1?

This document describes the new features and enhancements of InterMapper 5.0.1. Read InterMapper Features for a complete listing of capabilities.

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Major Features of InterMapper 5.0.1

  • InterMapper Flows offers at-a-glance telemetry on bandwidth hogs, top hosts, and top sessions for time intervals down to one second.

    NetFlow Analysis: InterMapper Flows integrates NetFlow data analysis with network monitoring, mapping, and reporting. Clicking on mapped devices and connections provides instant access to real-time NetFlow data that allows quick location of bandwidth hogs and information about bandwidth usage trends.

  • InterMapper 5.0 fully supports any device with an IPv6 address.

    IPv6: InterMapper 5.0 tests devices that have IPv6 addresses, and supports IPv6 client connections. TCP- and UDP-based probes, and IPv6-based DNS queries are supported in the current download.

  • The InterMapper database allows you to report on and chart network trends of consider data for a specific time period.

    InterMapper SQL Database: InterMapper Database is a component of InterMapper DataCenter. It acts as a central repository for data collected from one or more InterMapper servers.

    This data includes a snapshot of the current state of each server's managed elements (maps, devices, interfaces, etc), as well as historical readings from customer charts. InterMapper Database gathers this data efficiently, organizes it in a clear and logical schema, and provides means to respond to queries using industry standard SQL statements.

    InterMapper Database can be operated on its own or could be part of an organization's Configuration Management Database initiative (CMDB). more...

Minor Features

Maps can be organized in folders for easy access.

  • Hierarchy in Map List: You can now organize your maps into folders, reducing clutter for those who have lots of maps.
  • Acknowledgment filtering in device lists: There are two new buttons (at the top right of the window) that hide or show devices that have been acknowledged. This makes it easier to spot new trouble areas.
  • Server-wide find on DNS name, IP address, or IMID: The "Find Devices..." menu item allows you to search either a map or the entire InterMapper Server for a given DNS name, IP address, or IMID. Searching by IMID can be helpful for relating a device in InterMapper Database to a device on the map.

  • Enhanced Nagios Plugin Support: InterMapper has long supported command-line probes and has supplied a template specific to Nagios plug-ins. In Version 5.0, you can set a flag in your command-line probe to tell InterMapper to interpret the performance data (PERFDATA) supplied as part of the plugin's output and make it available for custom display. A newer template is also provided, and creates a nicely-formatted display from the output of NAGIOS plug-ins that provide perfdata. more...
  • Server Discovery Preference: InterMapper RemoteAccess now implements a preference allowing you to turn off server discovery, so that the only servers which appear in the Map List window are those servers you have added yourself.