Creating cross-domain network views

After running your cross-domain discoveries, create cross-domain network views to visualize your network. You can create standard or dynamic network views.

Before you begin

Before creating a cross-domain network view, you must configure and run cross-domain discoveries for each domain that you want to aggregate.

About this task

To create network views across domains, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Click the Incident icon and select Network Availability > Network Views.
  2. Within Network Views, in the Libraries tab, click New View New button.
  3. Complete the General tab as follows:
    Name
    Type a name for the network view, dynamic view, or network view container.
    Important: It is best practice to use network view names containing Latin characters only. Network views names containing non-Latin characters (for example Cyrillic characters) are not supported as they cannot be imported and exported when migrating to a new version of Network Manager.
    Parent
    Select the node under which the view appears in the hierarchy in the Navigation Tree. To display the view on the top level, select NONE.
    Type
    Select a type of network view. Because the resulting network view will contain all devices from all discovered networks, consider the size of the network views so as not to create unnecessary load on the server.

    Fill in the other fields as appropriate for that type of network view.

  4. Click the Filter tab. Complete the tab as follows:
    Domain
    Select the AGGREGATION domain.

    Fill in the other fields as appropriate for that type of network view.

  5. Click OK.
    The new view is added to the navigation tree in the Navigation Panel. If you added the view to a container, expand the container node to see the new view in the tree.

Results

Your network view shows devices from all discovered domains.

Example: Small network or Proof of Concept (POC)

If you want to check whether two or more domains have been discovered and joined together as you expect, you could recreate all the network views that are usually created automatically after a discovery finishes. Do this only if you are sure that the total of the resulting network views will not have an adverse performance impact. For example, you might want to do this while testing cross-domain discovery, on a non-production system. To create all the usual network views, complete the following steps:

  1. Create a new network view of type Dynamic Views - Template.
  2. Select the domain AGGREGATION.
  3. Select the template IP Default.