RouteExplorer™ Tutorial -- Visualization
View the routing topology of your multi-protocol, multi-domain network
Route Explorer monitors and displays the most complexmulti-protocol, multi-AS routing networks. Whether you have a single level IS-IS network with hundredsof routers, multi-area OSPF network with many areas, or a global multi-ASnetwork with EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP, Route Explorer can display it in a unifiedtopology map. The various IGPareas and ASes can be displayed hierarchically and in different windows forclarity.
In environments where a number of completely separatenetworks are maintained and serviced by a single entity – say in a managedservice provider or outsourced IT service provider – Route Explorer can monitorand display separate networks in separate topology databases, allowing themonitoring of all the networks while maintaining the separation of the data.
Seeing the complete picture of a complex multi-domainrouting topology has not been possible with traditional network managementtools. Their device-oriented layer2 views show too much detail, while their layer 3 views not enough – forexample, views of multiple routing domains across geographical areas andprivate AS boundaries are not shown. Route Explorer is the first multi-domain routing tool that allows you tomonitor your global enterprise network with diverse IGPs connected together byBGP.
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Figure 1at the left shows what Route Explorer shows you when you open a networktopology for viewing. Tree-structured hierarchical display of databases isshown with sub-trees corresponding to networks with diverse IGPs.
HOW TO:
- Open an X Windows or VNC session to the Route Explorer. See Route Explorer User Guide.
- Click on File->Open Topology
- Select the topology domain “DemoEnterpriseAMar03” from menu.
- Click Open.
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