What's New in InterMapper® 5.6?
InterMapper 5.6 includes many new features and enhancements. Here's a summary...
Web server identification
InterMapper identifies an HTTP server during auto-discovery, and creates a probe groups automatically to monitor it.
ARP discovery
InterMapper uses the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table to find additional devices during auto-discovery, broadening its view of the network.
UI Enhancements
Many parts of the user interface have been modernized. A number of menu items have been consolidated to improve usability.
- The Info Window has been expanded and redesigned to include many of the Set Info menu commands, and will eventually replace them.
- A new Welcome page to helps you get started more quickly.
InterMapper Reports
InterMapper Reports now works on the iPad and other modern web-capable mobile devices.
- Datasets are better organized, and each user-created dataset is labeled with its probe and variable name.
- Many improvements have been made to charts, including a cleaner visual design, smarter axis scaling and value selection, and a legend.
- A number of improvements result in faster load times, better interface responsiveness, and overall performance.
- Units of measurement are now shown throughout Reports, for any dataset that specifies them.
- The Adobe Flash plug-in is no longer required to display charts.
Data Management
Additional tools have been added to let you manage how data is exported to the database.
- The probe <autorecord> section is deprecated in favor of a new <datasets> section, which can be used for any dataset.
- The new <datasets> section lets probe authors specify the units in which the data will be shown.
- Probe, variable and units columns have been added to the dataset table, making it easier to write SQL queries against user-created datasets.
- The Database overview page content has been condensed into a more useful form.
New fields in labels, notifiers and status windows
- Several Entity MIB fields are now available when editing a device label.
- The sysName, sysDescr, MAC Address, and several Entity MIB fields are available when editing a notifier message.
- Several Entity MIB fields are displayed in the status window for an SNMP probe.
Minor Features
- Sounds are turned off by default for new installs, but are easily turned on .
- Server Settings, Map Settings and Preferences windows on Windows and Linux platforms contain a number of visual improvements.
- Scaling of Reports charts has been improved so that a chart fits the page when printing.
- You can now drag-and-drop Label variables to add them to labels.
- In the Send Feedback window, you can now update an open ticket by providing the ticket number.
- A number of bug fixes and minor improvements have been made.
Documents versions:
- InterMapper & InterMapper RemoteAccess: 5.6
- InterMapper Flows: 1.3
- Document Built: 2/18/2013 10:50 AM