I've finally had time to really work with Cirrus and I've come up with a bunch of suggestions, comments, etc. -----------------------Node List:*Needs a filter at the top of the Node List where I can type part of node name (or other field?) and have it hide any node that doesn't match.* Needs a "Collapse All" option for the Node List.* The node list needs to behave like most other windows tree controls. Specifically I should be able to move up and down with the arrow keys and open/close a tree with the left & right arrow keys.* Need the ability to save a random group of devices. As I go through things I may want to create a group like "Need contact update" that will be temporary but allows me to keep track of devices that I'm working with.* The ability to create sub-groups, possibly with something like "xxx.yyy.zzz" when you sub-group on the dots so the result would be sub-group zzz under sub-group yyy which is under group xxx.* Combine the above with the ability to add a device to multiple groups by comma separating them (like "xxx.yyy.zzz,aaa") and you'd have a lot of flexibility for organizing devices.* Being able to drag a device into another group would be nice too. Shift-drag (like Windows Explorer) to move and just drag to add to the new group without removing the old group.* I'd like to be able to see "Upload a configlet" added to the right-click menu on the node list.* Needs an easy way to export a list of devices in a group so that I can hand them off to someone else.* When editing multiple devices Cirrus makes the change as soon as I leave the field. I'd prefer for it to wait till I click Done.-----------------------Reports:* The Last Boot Time report needs to understand that dates are dates, not text fields. If you sort by Last Boot, say, in an attempt to find anything that's rebooted recently, you get a mess as 5/12/2006 sorts before 5/14/2005 and 5/10/2006 comes before 5/2/2006. Please either date-sort or pad the field out with leading zeros.* Same problem with the Last Inventory report and probably any other report where dates are important.* The Job Completion email for the config downloads frequently runs two lines together so instead of:
DevX : downloaded Running config
DevY : ERROR: Cannot download Running config
I get
DevX : downloaded Running config DevY : ERROR: Cannot download Running config
This makes it rather difficult to parse the file and figure out which ones had problems.
My preference would be one device per line with
DeviceName{TAB}The results message
This is more readable than the current " : " delimiter, especially since there are also colons in the error messages.
-----------------------Upload to Device:* Needs to allow drag-and-drop to add a device(s) to the Upload to Device list. Also needs a way to say "Upload a snippet to the current device(s)".* The Node list needs to be cached. It takes too long to pull up the list when I select "Add Devices" and we've only got 400 devices.* Another suggestion for the "Select Router / Switch" dialog: Add a find box at the top so I can type in the box and see only matching devices.-----------------------Find IP/MAC:* Find IP Address cuts off text on the right side and doesn't have a horizontal scroll bar. * When I hit escape on the Find dialog (find text, not find IP/MAC) it pulls up a help page. I want it to close the dialog.* Any time there's a MAC address on the screen it would be nice if I could right-click and select "Find MAC Address". Same goes for IPs.* The Find IP/MAC dialog should NOT clear the address field when I change from IP to MAC. See I might have typed something in there and then realized I needed to change the address type and then it makes me retype it which is really irritating.* The Find IP/MAC dialog should remember past addresses, say the last five or ten. That would be really handy, especially when I type a MAC instead of an IP and then you clear the field when I change the address type. 
* The Find IP/MAC dialog should automagically figure out where I typed a MAC, an IP or a hostname. They really don't look that much alike.* The Find IP dialog should do a better job of showing me the correct device. CiscoWorks can do it and they suck at everything else so I'm sure Solarwinds can figure it out. I'd think you could include the subnets (pulled from the configs) in a table and then look up the correct subnet, find the device(s) that the subnet is on and then check the ARP table of ONLY those devices.-----------------------Miscellaneous:* Please work out the name of the product. Is it called "Cirrus" or is it "Solarwinds Configuration Management"? In my opinion you should go with Cirrus. Orion has the same issue.* Needs to log the results of a job to a text file so I can see what devices had problems. I've got it emailing me but I really don't want them all in my inbox.* There needs to be some means of getting status on background processes. Currently if I close the Device Inventory Status window there doesn't seem to be any way to find out if it's still running. I'd like to see an overall status, something simple like "X of Y devices complete", rather than status on each device.* Config-Archive Macro ${NN} doesn't work. I really want it to as {$N} does NOT provide the same functionality.
