This Story Posted:
March 18th

 
 

[2:05 PM]
Mac Network Tool Upgraded, New Network Watcher Released
Dartmouth College, the makers of Mac FTP stalwart Fetch, has updated InterMapper to version 2.1 and introduced a new tool called SNMP Watcher. According to Dartmouth:

InterMapper 2.1

InterMapper 2.1 is an upgrade to the sophisticated multiprotocol network monitoring tool now used by hundreds of network managers worldwide. SNMP Watcher is a new tool designed to retrieve information from devices on multiprotocol networks.

InterMapper 2.1 is an update to the monitoring package that the College has been marketing commercially since 1996. InterMapper 2.1 introduces a number of enhancements to its built-in web server, which gives the ability to view network information from a standard Web browser. The new InterMapper 2.1 also provides:

Clickable image maps. From your web browser, you can click on any device to show detailed information about the particular device and its network interfaces. The network manager can easily view uptime, packet and error rates, network addresses, and other critical information remotely.

Highly compressed images using PNG (Portable Network Graphics). This image format for the web gives much better compression (and thus greater speed when displaying graphics) as well as greater clarity than JPEG images.

Real-time strip charts--windows that show a plot of statistics such as packet rates, byte rates, error rates, and link utilization--are now viewable from the Web browser. A network map can have several strip charts showing unique sets of statistics.

SNMP Watcher 1.0

SNMP Watcher 1.0 is an easy-to-use tool for retrieving information using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv1), a standard protocol for monitoring and controlling network components. Network managers can use SNMP Watcher to query network components for information about their configuration, activity and errors.

SNMP Watcher collects information from standard SNMP Management Information Bases (MIBs) and displays that data in tabular form on-screen. It can also log successive readings of values from MIBs, so that a network manager can track these variables over time.

InterMapper 2.1 is available now for $795; educational institutions will receive a 50% discount. InterMapper 2.1 is a free upgrade to current customers of InterMapper 2.0.

SNMP Watcher 1.0 is available for $99.00.

Dartmouth College