InterMapper

{{short description|Network mapping program}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Fortra, LLC

| type = Privately held company

| foundation = 2000

| location_city = Eden Prairie, Minnesota

| location_country = United States of America

| key_people =

| num_employees = 550+

| industry = Network Management, Monitoring, Mapping and Alerting

| homepage = [https://www.fortra.com/products/network-monitoring-software/maintenance-plans]

}}

Intermapper is a cross-platform, network monitoring, and network mapping program for Mac, Linux, and Windows. It is produced by Fortra.

The current version of Intermapper comes with a variety of network probes based on ping, SNMP, http and other network protocols used to monitor the state of networked devices and servers. It displays the status of the devices it monitors in maps or lists.

{{cite news

|newspaper=Network World

|title=Intermapper: Your network at a glance

|first=Barry

|last=Nance

|date=2007-02-12

|url=http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2007/021207-net-manager-test-intermapper.html

}} For example, the software can monitor the internal state of Apple Inc. Xserves such as fan speed and CPU temperature remotely by using a probe to query the servers.{{cite news

|title=InterMapper 4.2.3 monitors Xserves

|first=Brad

|last=Cook

|newspaper=MacCentral

|url=http://www.macworld.com/article/40238/2004/10/intermapper.html

|access-date=2010-10-09

|archive-date=2011-06-11

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611032208/http://www.macworld.com/article/40238/2004/10/intermapper.html

|url-status=dead

}} Intermapper can also discover network devices by probing a network, building a map of devices found in each network segment starting from a single IP address.

{{cite news

|title=Two other 'network' monitoring options

|first=Barry

|last=Nance

|date=2001-03-22

|newspaper=IT World

|url=http://www.itworld.com/NWW0904revside?page=0%2C0

}}

Intermapper also supports alarms for devices that have disappeared from the network or which are in a warning state, and can send alerts via email, pager, console alerts, or script execution.{{cite news

|newspaper=Network World

|title=Response to RFP: Dartmouth College

|date=1999-08-23

|url=http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/0823rfpdart.html

|access-date=2010-10-09

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613142015/http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/0823rfpdart.html

|archive-date=2011-06-13

|url-status=dead

}} The software can be configured to display graphs of performance data stored at variable intervals to show trends. Intermapper can export data for use with Google Earth to show network infrastructure on a map,

{{cite news

|newspaper=MacNN

|title=InterMapper 5.1 adds map creation, probe groups

|date=2009-03-12

|url=http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/12/intermapper.51.ships/

}} and provides a web service for display of network status and maps.

As of 2017, Intermapper offered a free 30-day trial to monitor up to 500 devices, as well as a free 10-device version. Subscription pricing is also offered.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fortra.com/products/network-monitoring-software/maintenance-plans|title=Intermapper Pricing, Maintenance, and Discount Information|website=www.fortra.com|language=en|access-date=2017-09-27}}

Intermapper began as a Macintosh program, and was created at Dartmouth College, supporting monitors via both SNMP and AppleTalk. Dartware was purchased from the original founders in December 2012, by HelpSystems. None of the original founders (William Fisher, Richard Brown, Stuart Pompian) remain.{{cite news

|last=Berkley

|first=Travis

|newspaper=Network World

|date=1999-08-23

|title=Net monitoring tools stand watch

|url=http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/0823rev.html

|access-date=2010-10-09

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419162805/http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/0823rev.html

|archive-date=2010-04-19

|url-status=dead

}}