Visio as a monitoring tool

[Brian]

With all the back-end programming capabilities of Visio,
is there a way to set up objects within a page to reflect
the current status of a given computer on the network?
And if so, what might be the best way to go about it?

What I'd like to do is to draw a network floorplan and
then link the live server information to each object, so
at a visual glance I can tell the status of a given server.

Thanks,

Brian

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Since the back end of Visio is wide open, the key problem will be to find
out how a program that can interface with Visio can also obtain information
from the servers.

So the program will obtain status information from the server and issue the
appropriate command to update the corresponding shape in Visio. The
information from the server can be displayed on the Visio drawing by
changing text or numeric information within the shape or changing the colour
of the shape (or part of the shape).

You should be able to do this without an intermediatary table to hold the
information. Any extra information can be contained in the Visio shape. For
example; if the information is only provided by active devices, the extra
information can indicate when a device was last heard from. This extra
information need not be visible in the drawing.

John... Visio MVP

Need stencils or ideas? http://www.mvps.org/visio/3rdparty.htm
Need VBA examples? http://www.mvps.org/visio/VBA.htm
Common Visio Questions http://www.mvps.org/visio/common_questions.htm

 

[Brian]

Cool - thanks - I will.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
you might want to check John Marshall's site at
www.mvps.org/visio

al
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[JJ]

we integrated VISIO with MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager)

MOM Agents collect server and netinformations like repsonsetimes... and
visio uses the mom database to visualize the results

cheers
jj

 

[Paul Verjans]

JJ
Could you elaborate a bit about how this is achieved. Did you create your
own shapes, how do you visualise the variable data coming out of the MOM
database in the visio shapes. Can you recommend a manual or web site that
explains about this technology.
Thanks for your clarification
Paul