Topology Visualization
Using the SANnav Management Portal, you can easily view and navigate a visual representation of the elements in your SAN topology based on a selected context. This enables you to focus on the information in the topology view instead of a complex network of devices and connections.
The Topology page displays graphical representations of the fabrics. For example, after you discover a fabric, you might want to view the topology to see a pictorial representation of the connected switches and devices.
The following are the contexts for which you can display a Topology:
• Fabric context: displays all switches in the fabric and other directly connected fabrics.
• Switch context: displays all fabrics, switches, and devices directly connected to the selected switch.
• Switch port context: displays all entities connected to the selected switch port.
• Host or storage context: displays the connectivity to edge switches, fabrics, and other devices that are zoned with the selected device.
• Host port or storage port context: displays edge switches, fabrics, and other device ports that are zoned with the selected device port.
• Zone context: displays all zone members, including involved fabrics.
Topology views are a snapshot in time, and are not automatically updated.
The topology shows information related to discovered fabrics only. For this reason, it is recommended that, for FC Routing, you discover all fabrics (backbone and edge fabrics) in the same instance of SANnav Management Portal.
Note: The topology feature is available on SANnav Management Portal only. It is not available on SANnav Global View.
Understanding Topology Icons
The following table lists the icons seen in the topology view.
Note: If an icon on the topology page is grayed out, it means that the associated object is unavailable.
Icon | Entity |
|---|---|
 | Fabric |
 | Director |
 | Switch (fixed-port) Switch icons might have additional annotations: • AG: Access Gateway • LS: Logical switch |
 | Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform (AMP) AMP icons might have additional annotations: • LS: Logical switch |
 | Port Port icons might have additional annotations: • V: Virtual port • VE: VE_Port • VEX: VEX_Port |
 | GbE port group |
 | Virtual port group |
 | Host Host icons might have additional annotations: • H: Hybrid host |
 | Host group |
 | Storage Storage icons might have additional annotations: • H: Hybrid storage |
 | Storage group |
 | ISL |
 | Virtual link (LISL, VE-VE, and VEX-VE) |
 | Trunk Note: SANnav does not support IFL Trunks. |
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