Clouds in Network Atlas

BakerD

I would like to create an Internet and MPLS cloud on a network map and be able to connect links to them.  Anyone doing this and what sort of object are you putting in the cloud to allow you to link to it?

IE: I want a link from my internet router to an internet cloud.  I want the link to be active and show status etc.  Otherwise I would just draw a line on my background image.  One thought is if my gateway or ISP has an IP that is pingable, I could use that.

On the MPLS one, not sure on that since they are metro/ethernet links.

Just wondering how anyone else was doing this sort of thing?

 

Thanks

ecklerwr1

You need to do the right click on the link to open properties on it... then you can find the interface on your router on the left side of Network Atlas window and drag it over and drop onto the inteface properties window you have open.  This makes the link change to red when your internet router interface is down.

You can use any of the orion or your custom properties on mouse overs on you map for interfaces or nodes... a list of the variables is here:

To add them to show up when you hover over click on edit from the map in the web interface (not atlas) and at the bottom of page click on Customize Map Tooltips.  You can use any variable or custom property in there in the form ${variablename}  Also say you have a node custom property called lab... you could use ${lab} in the tooltips that shows up when hovering over a node.  On my interfaces I like the hoverover to show me when the interface last changed status and it's Bandwidth so I use:

Last Change: ${LastChange}
${OutBandwidth}

For nodes I use:

${Location}
${Contact}
${SerialNumber}
${City}
${DNS}

The Atlas is getting better but still has a way to go as far as letting you configure custom colors for link to change to like green to yellow to red based on x.  It's definately improved though.