Displaying the Network Hop View related to an event

Display the Network Hop View related to an event to see the affected network device in context. This shows the network device affected by an event together with a network map of the connected devices. You can also specify a number of hops, or device connections, from the affected device.

Before you begin

Before you display a related Network Hop View, ensure that the event to investigate is selected in the Event Viewer.

About this task

To display the Network Hop View related to an event:

Procedure

  1. From an Event Viewer window, right-click an event and click Find in Network Hop View.
    The Network Hop View opens in a separate browser window. The network map is centered around the device affected by the selected event. The Seed device field is populated with the IP address of the device on which the alert was raised.

    You can select multiple devices to display in the Network Hop View. You can either press Ctrl and click the devices or drag a box around them with the mouse to select multiple devices. The number of devices that you can select is limited by the topoviz.hopview.maximum.seeds property in topoviz.properties. The default value for this property is 10. If it is negative, the number of devices that you can select is unlimited.

  2. Use the navigation features in the Network Hop View toolbar to move around the network.

What to do next

You can perform any of the following actions on this device:
  • Investigate network routes to this device
  • Drill into the device using the Structure Browser to investigate the health of device components
  • Log into the device to examine processes running on the device
  • Browse the MIB associated with this device