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Route Explorer
Visualization
Route Explorer provides graphical, multi-level views of your single or multi-area IP network topology enabling real-time visualization of all dynamic routing activities. Important routes can be monitored using the Network Topology Map, allowing operators to see IP routing changes in their network as they happen. The History Navigator clearly highlights past routing events, such as flapping links, enabling rapid isolation of the specific link or router that is the source of a problem. Route Explorer also aids engineers with routine maintenance or network planning tasks by visually showing them the impact of taking down a router for service, what happens when a link fails, or how changing individual route metric alters the routing. Letting the operator see the affect on the network before making any changes, greatly reduces the potential for problems related to misconfigurations. After any changes are implemented, Route Explorer helps to visually verify that the network is operating as intended.
Route Explorer’s visualization capabilities include:
- Network Topology Map
The user can select a high-level view of the network topology showing the status of all routers and links, focus in on a specific area of the network, or view only specific types of routers, such as backbone routers. Selecting any source/destination pair will highlight the active route between the nodes.
- History Navigator
Route Explorer stores all historical routing event information and allows users to easily review events over a specified time period so that problems can be quickly identified and diagnosed. An animated playback mode allows the user to quickly see how past routing events affected specific routes or view other changes within the network. Route Explorer also provides for importation of external time series data that can be correlated with routing events, enabling visualization and analysis of the impact of routing changes on network service delivery.
- Route Summary Graphs
Route Explorer can display a summary of all routing events over a user specified time period in a bar graph, showing the number of link changes as well as the nodes involved. The Summary Graphs are useful for rapidly identifying the nodes experiencing the greatest amount of routing events, often the source of network problems.
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