Connectivity Definitions

Important:The product name for this user guide has changed from Foundation and Cloudscape to Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning. Previous UI pages known as Foundation have changed to Business Service Discovery. Previous UI pages known as CloudScape have changed to Migration Planning.

The following are connectivity definitions.

Connectivity Definitions

Term

Definition

Critical vs. Non-Critical

The derivation of Critical vs Non-Critical is primarily driven from the identification of traffic that does NOT play a role in application or supporting system communication. Application process and contexts with corresponding traffic supporting the OS or default system level communication is marked as ‘Non-Critical’. Traffic from OS default system processes is also classified as Non-Critical.

Internal vs. External

An internal connection (displayed as green and blue within the visualization) is one that is internal to the group whereas an external connection (displayed as red and orange within the visualization) is one that is made to a device outside of the select group.

Application Context

Is a mapped application based on the process that initiated the connection. This proprietary mapping is maintained by RISC Networks.

Location
• LocationXX—If access to the switching and routing environment is granted via SNMP then the Platform will automatically group devices into Locations based on the routing tables gathered during Inventory
• risc-autoconfiguration—RFC 3927 
• risc-broadcast—RFC 919 
• risc-loopback—RFC 6890 
• risc-multicast—RFC 5771 
• risc-reserved—RFC 1700 
• risc-testnet—RFC 5737 
• risc-unknown-private—(RFC 1918 addresses that are not already assigned a location – which would be all RFC 1918 addresses if there are no routers/switches in scope) RFC 1918 
• risc-unknown-internet—(All Class A,B, and C addresses that are non-RFC 1918 and are not part of a location – likely all – although we do have a few defined internet locations – such as Amazon EC2 IP Ranges)