Wish List Items -
Am very pleased with some of the features this last patch offered. Including the ease of creating Trap processors, and prescheduled maintenance, and more!
Here's a couple more suggestions which I think could make OpManager even better!
- Time-base schedule for notification profiles. I would like the ability to turn-off pager notifications for some monitors during working hours. For instance we monitor our major websites, and as we are emailed (and prefer being emailed) during working hours, it is only necessary to receive pages during "off-hours". During the day we have a full staff that does respond to email notifications. It would be nice to only have this particular notification profile, active during specific, recurring, time periods (nights, evenings, weekends & holidays). During off-hours we have one specific person assigned to man our pager, which is typical.
- The DownTime schedule is a really good new feature. I would prefer however that only the notifications be turned off, and keep the device monitoring "active".
- "Quick Configuration Wizard" - Suspend Notification. I would like to be able to suspend notifications by category, business view, device type, or individual devices. We have encountered two extreme emergencies in the past year, where our UPS system failed. In fact our UPS caused a wide-spread system shutdown, by actually cutting off all power to our servers, routers, etc, at one of our locations. During that event, at 3am in the morning, I realized I couldn't turn on OpManager without incurring a massive onslaught of device outtage notifications, and yet OpManager could have proven itself quite useful had I been able to remove it's network cable long enough to start the OpManager service, and do a complete suspension of notifications, while teams worked to bring back up: mainframe, sans storage, switches, routers, servers, databases etc., There were so many devices to bring up, I had to touch each one to make certain it was up, and it would have been nice to see the server which was hanging at POST, etc, had I been able to use OpManager as a tool during that time.
- Device "additional information fields". You have already confirmed that this feature is taken up for the next release (applause!). I would like to confirm, that we be given plenty of flexibilty to accommodate several, searchable fields of information, including: Device Site Location; Device Rack Location; System Model ID; Inventory ID Tag; Device Role; Software Installed (would like to be able to search every server with "Example Vendor" software installed), RAM Type (handy when I come up with a couple extra sticks of a certain type of ram and am looking for a server which could use it); CPU Count and Type; Device Contact information (name, address, phone numbers).
Thank you much!
Here's a couple more suggestions which I think could make OpManager even better!
- Time-base schedule for notification profiles. I would like the ability to turn-off pager notifications for some monitors during working hours. For instance we monitor our major websites, and as we are emailed (and prefer being emailed) during working hours, it is only necessary to receive pages during "off-hours". During the day we have a full staff that does respond to email notifications. It would be nice to only have this particular notification profile, active during specific, recurring, time periods (nights, evenings, weekends & holidays). During off-hours we have one specific person assigned to man our pager, which is typical.
- The DownTime schedule is a really good new feature. I would prefer however that only the notifications be turned off, and keep the device monitoring "active".
- "Quick Configuration Wizard" - Suspend Notification. I would like to be able to suspend notifications by category, business view, device type, or individual devices. We have encountered two extreme emergencies in the past year, where our UPS system failed. In fact our UPS caused a wide-spread system shutdown, by actually cutting off all power to our servers, routers, etc, at one of our locations. During that event, at 3am in the morning, I realized I couldn't turn on OpManager without incurring a massive onslaught of device outtage notifications, and yet OpManager could have proven itself quite useful had I been able to remove it's network cable long enough to start the OpManager service, and do a complete suspension of notifications, while teams worked to bring back up: mainframe, sans storage, switches, routers, servers, databases etc., There were so many devices to bring up, I had to touch each one to make certain it was up, and it would have been nice to see the server which was hanging at POST, etc, had I been able to use OpManager as a tool during that time.
- Device "additional information fields". You have already confirmed that this feature is taken up for the next release (applause!). I would like to confirm, that we be given plenty of flexibilty to accommodate several, searchable fields of information, including: Device Site Location; Device Rack Location; System Model ID; Inventory ID Tag; Device Role; Software Installed (would like to be able to search every server with "Example Vendor" software installed), RAM Type (handy when I come up with a couple extra sticks of a certain type of ram and am looking for a server which could use it); CPU Count and Type; Device Contact information (name, address, phone numbers).
Thank you much!