Browsing Network Resources
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The system provides four types of networks and provides built-in views for them.
Category |
Built-in View |
Description |
Physical Network |
Device Type |
organizes and displays devices based on their types, such as Router, L3 Switch, Firewall, and LAN Switch. |
Routing Protocol |
organizes and displays devices based on their routing protocols, such as BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF. |
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Virtualization |
organizes and displays virtualized devices based on their status and parent/child relation. |
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Cisco ACI |
displays tenants and the applications deployed under each tenant. |
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displays what nodes are part of the SDN fabric and how they connect to the rest of the network. |
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ESXi |
hierarchically displays the data centers, ESXi hosts, resource pools and virtual machines under a vCenter. |
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displays vSwitches, port-groups and virtual machines and their topology. |
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NSX-V |
organizes and displays the NSX-V network resources based on NSX components. |
Example: View the context maps of a firewall in a traditional network.
1.Click Network in the taskbar. The Network pane is used to manage, organize and provide various views for network resources discovered from traditional networks and software-defined networks.
2.In the Network pane, select Physical Network from the drop-down list and then select Device Type.
3.Expand the Firewall folder and select a specific firewall.
4.On the Context Maps tab, click Open Map to display the topology on a map.
5.Click the Node Details tab to view its property and interface details of the firewall.