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What's New in InterMapper 5.6?

The release of InterMapper 5.6 features numerous enhancements requested by customers to our industry leading network monitoring and mapping solution.  Taken as a whole, the new capabilities make the InterMapper network monitoring tool smarter, more reliable and easier to use:


Web server identification

InterMapper can now identify HTTP servers during auto-discovery, and automatically creates probe groups to monitor them.


ARP discovery

InterMapper now uses the ARP table to find additional devices during auto-discovery, broadening its view of the network.


UI Enhancements

We’ve modernized many aspects of the user interface, and are continuing to consolidate menu items and improve usability.

  • The Info Window has expanded and now allows you to adjust every setting for a device from one place.
  • InterMapper greets new users with a Welcome window to help them 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 user-created datasets are now labeled with their probe and variable.
  • Many improvements to charts, including a cleaner visual design, smarter axis scaling and value selection, and a legend.
  • Across-the-board improvements to load times, interface responsiveness, and overall performance.
  • Units of measurement are now shown throughout Reports, for datasets that specify them.
  • The Adobe Flash plug-in is no longer required to display charts.


Data Management

InterMapper 5.6 provides additional tools to 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 gives probe authors the ability to specify the units in which the data will be shown.
  • Added probe, variable and units columns to the dataset table, making it easier to write SQL queries against user-created datasets.
  • The information on the database overview page has been condensed into a more useful form.


New fields in labels, notifiers and status windows

  • Several Entity MIB fields are 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 enabled on demand.
  • Visual improvements to the Server Settings, Map Settings and Preferences windows on Windows and Linux platforms.
  • Improved scaling of Reports charts to fit the page when printing.
  • Label variables can be added to labels via drag-and-drop.
  • Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
  • New demo maps are available which highlight the updated interface.

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