Major change bubbles on charts

Hello All,

We always make changes on our environment. We make changes on Network devices, Servers, appliances, softwares, etc. Some of them are major, some of them are minor. Sometimes these changes break something and we miss the problems in that time. We realise this problem after a week maybe. Then we forget what we change

The idea is "Major change bubbles on charts" If there is a special console for nodes or softwares as custom properties(but this information will be stored as historical), we can type changes via this console but the key parameter is that we see these changes on charts like bubbles with right time information

When we click on a bubble, we can see the change's detail. so when we see an abnormal trend(increase or dicrease) on charts, we will see the cause of problem on same change.

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NetEng33

If you can edit that second paragraph quotation "...chats...." to "....charts...". I hadn't got my full dose of coffee in me yet when reading this and it through me for quite the loop a couple of times I love the idea, I think this would be great to have this functionality within the system. Can you imagine not just for our records when we go back and see something or pull historical information - but what about all the departments and other users we roll this out to? Can you imagine another manager in a different department that really doesn't have anything to do with EMS or NMS (Enterprise Monitoring Systems - Network Monitoring Systems) that is simply an end user consistently using their custom dashboard that pertains to what the NMS Team has developed for them? They go back and pull historical data on their area of expertise and you now have this capability to show them changes that have happened as well as the results? Wow, that would be powerful!

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familyofcrowes

WOW, we were just discussing this feature with our executives. They want all charting to be moved to Orion but we were missing this feature.

please please please!!!!

ClintW

I really like the idea! Best I've heard in a long while.

Are you also recommending a radio button to overlay NCM device configuration change dates/times within the graph? Maybe a "c" icon or similar could be used. I recognize that others (like me) don't use real-time change detection but it could act as notice when looking for something amiss.

meech

Hi rams, (and everyone else, too!), are you imaging this feature would automatically place the annotations on a chart, or, would you be putting them on manually? Can you clarify?

Jfrazier

I think it should tie into a change in the environment...like an interface speed change which NPM polls and picks up on it's own....

Thus known/discovered metric changes that affect the display of the chart would trigger the placement of the bubble.

For example:

You have a network link to a remote site and the circuit is set for 5MB/s. Thus all the interface traffic utilization numbers are based upon that metric. Now down the road you increase the bandwidth of the circuit to 10MB/s Orion should detect the change and put the bubble marker in place so you can see when the change took place and a hover would show you what changed and by how much.

This could apply to drive space as well...you need to know when the size of the drive changed respective to the utilization amounts over time. If the sysadmin keeps extending the drive you need to be able to notate that in the view.

The point as I see it is that those critical milestones are not adequately represented..although I do see issues as historic data is rolled up and aggregated. Thus the Data Warehouse is still needed and this would be a great tie in with the data warehouse.

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familyofcrowes

I agree with Jfrazier, any change in speed, capacity, configuration, etc.

I see this concept being terrific for UDT as well. switches or even interfaces that have excessive changes in mac addresses, or logins.

I think of the LEM graphs when I talk about this. Lots of different ways to show the same data