InterMapper is designed to monitor any network. Its straightforward graphical user interface and ease of use make it
suitable to smaller networks. Installation is simple, and it’s easy to map and start
monitoring a network within minutes.
Larger organizations appreciate its ease of use and the clarity InterMapper offers with its overview of the
network.
InterMapper’s architecture permits it to scale easily from single-building LANs to multi-national WANs, meeting
the network monitoring needs of large environments with minimal overhead.
High Performance Polling Handles Thousands of Devices
InterMapper is designed to poll many thousands of devices using Pings, SNMP queries, and DNS/HTTP/FTP/etc.
transactions at a rapid rate. The default poll interval is 30 seconds, and the polling engine can even handle queries at
one-second intervals.
Consequently, you can poll as many devices as you need in a single InterMapper instance. However, it may be important
to
spread the polling
load across several servers to avoid a lot of monitoring traffic traversing a central part of the network.
Vendor Neutral Monitoring
Although some of the hundreds of built-in probes are designed to monitor specific hardware or vendor’s
equipment, most of the probes work with virtually any gear. For example, the Ping probe tests reachability and response
time for anything with an IPv4 or IPv6 address; the SNMP Traffic probes retrieve traffic and other data from any
vendor’s hardware, and the web, mail, ftp, and dns probes all work with multiple vendors as well.
Platform Agnostic
InterMapper runs on virtually any server: \Windows, MacOSX, and Linux/Unix. The software works identically on all
platforms, leaving the choice up to you. You can also mix and match: run the InterMapper server on one operating system,
and let your users run the GUI from their favorite desktop environment.
InterMapper and InterMapper RemoteAccess are also remarkably frugal in their
system requirements. We’ve optimized the polling
engine to handle even large networks easily.