Visualize Topology

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 Visualize Topology feature draws a layer 2 visualization built from collected network device and interface data.

How the Node-Link Diagram is Constructed

We create infrastructure nodes from licensed network infrastructure devices such as routers and switches.
We create edges from the direct connections between these infrastructure nodes. These connections are discovered using CDP.
We then create parent nodes from the locations to all the devices in those locations

How to Navigate the Diagram

Initially, we restrict the view to only the parent Location nodes to give an overview of the topology of the network. To edit these locations including member their names and member subnets, perform the following steps.

To navigate the diagram:

1. Go to Add Intelligence > Update Locations.
2. Right-click to drill down into a location and reveal its infrastructure nodes.
3. (Preview) Right-click an infrastructure device to drill-down to the servers connected to a given node.
4. Left-click on a node to focus the view on the direct connections to that node. Other nodes and edges will be grayed-out.
5. Left-click on the white space to de-focus the view.

View Options

The “hamburger” menu on the left-hand side of the interface reveals the following options:

“Show” Check Boxes

IP Address 
Host Name 
Locations—Appends the parent location name to a device name in the display
Description—The description is pulled from snmp, wmi, or other discovery protocols depending on the source device
Link Labels—Annotates device-to-device endpoints with the infrastructure interface names

Locations CheckBox List

All—Shows/hides all nodes and edges in the diagram.
Locations / Infrastructure Device 
Checkbox—Shows/hides the given node and its edges
Plus/Minus box—Expands/contracts the corresponding node

Export Options

You can output a given view to two different formats:

Export to Visio—Creates a MS Visio file of the current topology diagram
Export to CSV—Creates a comma-separated-value file of the current node coordinates and node labels