Would like to see Custom Pollers roll up in Network Atlas.

Allowing UNDPs / Customer Pollers to affect the status of a node should be a basic capability of a monitoring platform.

Otherwise you would have to have a complicated.

1) Write an alert out based on a value of UNDP being X to for example a file.

2) Create an application monitor that then checks if file contains alert xyz

3) Add this monitor to your map.

E.G:

Map Object: Rollup

Contains: Map Object - Customer Poller

Contains: Map Object - NPM Generic Status

So in order to accomplish a task as showing something going wrong with for example Firewall HA Heartbeat failing NPM alone is enough to get you an alert generated (for example via email) but not visualised as a status. You would have to buy two products and a clunky solution.

Another option that might be worth requesting is the ability to treat alerts as a map object. This way you might be able to add an object to your map called IBM Temp Sensor Alert. When the alert is not triggered it is green, when it is triggered it is orange / red. Therefore it might be able to leverage this so change the colour of rolled up maps.

Allowing UNDPs / Customer Pollers to affect the status of a node should be a basic capability of a monitoring platform.

Otherwise you would have to have a complicated.

1) Write an alert out based on a value of UNDP being X to for example a file.

2) Create an application monitor that then checks if file contains alert xyz

3) Add this monitor to your map.

E.G:

Map Object: Rollup

Contains: Map Object - Customer Poller

Contains: Map Object - NPM Generic Status

So in order to accomplish a task as showing something going wrong with for example Firewall HA Heartbeat failing NPM alone is enough to get you an alert generated (for example via email) but not visualised as a status. You would have to buy two products and a clunky solution.

Another option that might be worth requesting is the ability to treat alerts as a map object. This way you might be able to add an object to your map called IBM Temp Sensor Alert. When the alert is not triggered it is green, when it is triggered it is orange / red. Therefore it might be able to leverage this so change the colour of rolled up maps.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the solution has to be user friendly because we have about a dozen administrators at different skill levels creating these views in Network Atlas. I was hoping that a simple drag and drop in Network atlas would be all that is needed similar to the other objects. I see what your are saying about taking a different approach to make this work and perhaps for my own views I can try this but for the admins that expect it to work out of the box  it might be a tough sell.