The easiest way to stop InterMapper's polling for a while is to disable all the maps. To do this:
Alternatively, you can disable maps individually from the Map List by right-clicking on a map in the list and selecting the ‘Disable’ command.
On MacOS X, InterMapper installs a Menu Bar Application that gives a summary of InterMapper's status, and allows you to start and stop the InterMapper daemon.
On Windows, InterMapper installs an icon in System Tray (lower right corner) that does much the same thing.
On all Unix/Linux installations, InterMapper installs a script to control the server daemon.
We recommend you read the Readme file on the Downloads page for information specific to your version.
The recommended way to move InterMapper to another server is to follow these steps:
The default location for the InterMapper Settings folder depends upon the platform where installed:
Note: If you are migrating from Mac OS X PowerPC to Mac Intel, Windows or any other Intel-based system; or from Solaris Sparc to Solaris Intel, please contact support@intermapper.com prior to installing on the new platform. Additional steps are necessary in order to preserve the historical chart data when migrating between these platforms.
Each version of InterMapper comes with its own uninstaller. Find the original distribution file (or retrieve the current version from http://www.intermapper.com/files) and use its uninstall feature.
The message "intermapperd dead but subsys locked" means that intermapperd is not running; the daemon has either crashed or was sent an explicit kill command by the root user. Furthermore, the InterMapper lock file /var/lock/subsys/intermapperd exists when intermapperd isn't running.
To restart InterMapper, log on to the system as root and type:
/etc/init.d/intermapperd restart
You may also clear the lock file by typing:
rm /var/lock/subsys/intermapperd
but this isn't required because the restart command does this.
Q: When I use HyperTerminal to telnet into InterMapper's server, I don't see character echoes. Why not?
A: Two commonly-available Windows telnet clients, HyperTerminal and the command-line telnet client, do not work correctly with InterMapper in their default configuration. Neither of them do local echoing by default, and both refuse to turn it on when asked to do so by the InterMapper server.
Therefore, neither of these clients work out-of-the-box with InterMapper, so you need to turn on local echoing yourself.
With your InterMapper session loaded, choose File->Properties. Click the Settings tab. Click the ASCII Setup... button. Check the box labelled "Echo typed characters locally". When connecting to earlier versions of InterMapper, you should also check the box labelled "Send line ends with line feeds". Later versions of InterMapper do not require this (although it won't hurt.) Click Ok to close the ASCII Setup dialog, then click Ok to put away the Properties dialog. Remember to save your session to make the new settings permanent.
Start your telnet session with InterMapper. Press Ctrl+] to enable the client to process setup commands. Type "SET LOCAL_ECHO" and press Enter to turn on local echoing. Press Enter again to return to your session. I'm not aware of any way to save this setting for future sessions, so you'll need to do this each time.
One free Windows telnet client we have had good luck with is Putty. Putty is available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. Putty requires no configuration to work correctly with InterMapper. You may find this nicer to use than either of the built-in options that come with Windows.
You can use the built-in serial port to drive an external modem that can in turn send page notifications. To do this, you must disable the getty process that's usually listening on that port.
On the Xserve, open this file:
/System/Library/StartupItems/SerialTerminalSupport
At about line 72 is:
ENABLE_SERIAL_TERMINAL=$TRUE
Change this to:
ENABLE_SERIAL_TERMINAL=$FALSE
Re-init the system, and there should be no getty and InterMapper will get to the modem just fine. (Thanks to Charlie Winchcombe for this tip.)