Introducing the new "Worldwide Map" resource

rob.hock over 10 years ago 1 minute read time

Let's Welcome the new "World Map" resource

If you've already had a chance to upgrade to the NPM 10.6 or SAM 6.0 RC's, you may have noticed the new "Worldwide Map" resource.

For those of you that have been requesting this feature, or maybe already framing in Google Maps with your own API key to display dynamic map content, this new resource will be a real treat.

Worldwide Map has the capability to display the status of nodes or an aggregated group of nodes over dynamically updated street data.

Perhaps you're an ISP that manages customer premise equipment all over town? Worldwide map makes it easy to layout and view where your equipment is, and it's relative status. Manage a campus environment and want a birds-eye view of your gear? This new resource has you covered.

To add nodes to the map, simply click "Manage Map" and "Place Nodes on the map"

Just select where you want the nodes, what nodes are to be placed at that location, and click submit. That's all there is to it.

If you placed a group of nodes, the status of the icon will reflect the "worst" so you instantly be able to see if a node is in a down status.

To select the default position and zoom level, simply "Edit" the resource.

In the future we can look at adding support for other objects, or borrowing some further functionality from the Network Atlas playbook.

What else would you like to see added? Please Let us know in the comments below.

Top Comments

MagnAxiom over 10 years ago +6

Seeing as we already have the GPS Lat/Long loaded in the properties of each node, it would be very helpful if the map could make use of this info.. In a perfect world, I could create a dynamic group, and…
jordandalley over 10 years ago +5

This looks awesome but I need the ability to add groups to the map, not nodes.
bleearg13 over 10 years ago +5

The ability to import .kmz files would be excellent, as well as the ability to freehand draw lines on the maps. Both of these functions would make this 100% more useful, in my opinion. That said, it…

nathan.hejnicki over 7 years ago

I would say that there is no data sent back to Mapquest- SW only uses the map as a background and the points are all stored entirely in the SW database, and no data of that kind ever leaves SW or gets monitored by MapQuest or similar.
Nathan Hejnicki
Loop1 Systems
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jhandberg over 7 years ago

Our security team is questioning this tool and whether or not they should allow it due to possible risks of the outside company i.e. MapQuest, having "access to our internal IP addressing, hostnames and street addresses."
Does anyone have any ideas on how to respond to this security concern? I don't believe there would be outside access to IP Addresses or hostnames since this is an address lookup, but I would like to hear ideas on how to put their minds at ease so we might use this tool.
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nathan.hejnicki over 8 years ago

You can most likely use a SQL query/stored procedure- poll the UnDP values, and use those values to set the custom property/built-in location values that you have set up. If those geo-locations that you can poll are in latitude/longitude format, I can see that working. It would take some work on the front end but it would at least be doable.
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andrew_watson over 8 years ago

Hi rob.hock
We are looking at some of the new 4gx cards from cisco, a lot of this new gear are coming now with built-in gps that can be pulled via snmp. would it be possible to store the gps geo-locations from the polling and plot them onto the open street maps in solarwinds?
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nathan.hejnicki over 8 years ago

Much agreed. This is the one feature I am still holding out on- at the job I most recently worked, we were really excited to learn about the newer versions of NPM allowing in-built maps like this, but as my position was essentially part of a NOC, we really liked having the weather show up so we could tell that some outages may be caused by a thunderstorm or similar. If they could add support even for a Google Maps API key or something to pull in the Weather Underground system, I'd be ecstatic.
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