InterMapper

Commercial; See text.

Current Version: 4.6.9 (March 19, 2008)

Dartware (the nucleus of which is comprised of former programmers from Dartmouth College) produces a heck of a lot of great Mac Internet software, and has some interesting commercial offerings. InterMapper is a an AppleTalk and IP network mapping and management tool that provides powerful Internet mapping and SNMP monitoring.

InterMapper is priced by the number of devices that you monitor. Every piece of network equipment (e.g., each router, switch, hub, etc) counts as a device. The total of the devices being monitored determines the license tier you will need. See the pricing page for more details.

Version 4.6 introduced a whole slew of enhancements:

• InterMapper DataCenter: We have a new product, InterMapper DataCenter, that is a framework for adding new tools. Our first component in the DataCenter is the InterMapper Auth Server, described below.
• InterMapper Auth Server: InterMapper can now use an LDAP, Active Directory, Open Directory, or Radius server to authenticate users. more...
• Updated MacOS X Monitoring capabilities: InterMapper has updated probes that will test Xserve RAID and Mac OS X server, showing the state of the Web, FTP, AFP, NAT, Print, QTSS, and NAT servers.
• IP SLA probes for Cisco equipment: The new Cisco IP SLA Jitter probe uses SNMP to collect the information from the RTTMON MIB in the agent, allowing you to alarm jitter, latency, and packet loss, and to chart these values. more...
• Periodic check for updates: InterMapper can check with the Dartware update servers to notify when new versions are available.
• Improved interfaces window: The Interfaces window now displays the VLAN information as well as transmit and receive speeds. The transmit and receive speeds can also be set for links with asymmetric data rates.
• Shared Polling feature: If a device is represented on multiple maps (or appears multiple times on a single map) with identical polling parameters (probe type, polling interval, etc.), InterMapper will poll the device one time, and share the information to all the maps. This eliminates redundant polling.
• Autolayout: InterMapper has new commands to arrange the selected devices into a pleasing arrangement.
• New Probes.
• UNIX functionality: All UNIX installers now create the 'intermapper' user and all UNIX packaged versions include a 'relaunch' script to automatically restart InterMapper Server after a crash.
• New "Select Adjacent" algorithm: An alt-click now selects only the leaf objects connected to the selection; a second alt-click selects everything connected to the selection. This retains the old behavior, but allows more control on the extension of the selection.
• Tool-tips in the Map List: Holding the mouse over a map name in the Map List will show the server's DNS Name/IP address and port for easy identification.
• Disable map from Map List: You can right-click on a map name in the Map List window to disable it, without opening the Server Settings window.
• Context Menu for Charts button: In the header of a map window, the Charts button has a context (right-click) menu that allows you to select a chart.

Version 4.6.9 is primarily a bugfix release.

InterMapper for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer. Any computer that can run Mac OS X will easily handle large maps. A minimum of 50 MBytes of disk space is required, although 1 GB or more will allow historical data to be stored. The Mac OS X InterMapper Remote application automatically selects the proper Java VM.