Here are a few items for NPM that have been points of discussion during Customer Engagements with Loop1 Systems.
· Device Discovery
o Better Discovery and Topology Discovery selection options for Interfaces and Volumes (Matching Rules)
o Ability to identify the same Device on different scanned IP addresses (Router/Switch with multiple IP addresses/subnets)
o Topology Caching until next scan is run ( Lost data after modifying scan setup information)
o Ignore List included in Discovery/Node Management sections
· Reports
o Graphical Reports - Charts and Graphs
o Custom Header/Footers for Reports along with general Administration via Web Console
· Alerts
o Ability to modify the URL generated by the Alert Variable ${AlertAcknowledgeURL} example is URL had Hostname only, but needed the Fully Qualified Domain Name. (Orion vs. Orion.CompanyName.com)
o Option for Secondary or Redundant Email Servers w/ Email Server verification
· Views By Device and Device Types
o Ability to add a specific view on a per Device Bases vs. Type (separate views on the same 6509 models)