I have a weather radar setup on solarwinds and would like for a certain user to be able to see it but no touchy lol.
Glad to hear it. I haven't had maps in my installations for about four years, so I was thinking back to what I might do if I did--and hoping I was providing you accurate information. (Since my in environment were already named geographically and my geographical custom properties were in place, and since I had too many stale items on my maps, and since we were already showing a map down if a single item was down...for all those reasons just 'forgot' to add maps back in and used groups.)
You might also view this video and get some good tips:
Wasn't really a factor. It was mainly not worth the time to keep maps updated. And an instance where senior leadership saw a region being up on a map when a switch was down. I explained the slider that set the percent of nodes that had to be down. They still wanted a map to show down for a single down node. Due to naming conventions, our maps weren't important. A node's name told you where it was.
I actually had to beg people to click on down items on maps. I couldn't possibly show 1700 devices in a meaningful way. Eventually I went to DirectLink accounts for datawalls, and those accounts were pretty neutered to prevent clicking around.
In an earlier job we did find maps to be quite useful for displaying server/ rack / elevation relationships. Simple yet quite helpful for datacenter monitoring. And with the right Visio or flow diagram as a background, it was a great way to show relationships. At that time group functionality did not yet exist.
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