Tutorials
Route Explorer Tutorials
Visualization
Route Explorer’s visualization of your multi-area, multi-protocol, and multi-AS network’s routing topology provides the following unique benefits:- Unified network map makes it easy to:
- View the entire network at a glance and see outages
- See the network as running right now, including any tactical changes made during outages that are not reflected in network design documents
- Online monitor and topology map gives early indication of potential routing failures in the network, allowing IT staff to anticipate and head-off user complaints
- At-a-glance validation of network topology shows potential configuration errors that may result in service outages after a maintenance window
- Detailed drill-down features help isolate the failure to an individual router, link or prefix advertisement
- Routing Information Base (RIB) browsing and analysis provides unprecedented BGP diagnosis capability, potentially savings hours in problem isolation time
- Route Explorer provides the capability to view the routing events that led to a failure, to aid forensic analysis
- Accurate, vendor independent view of the routing network often points out potential implementation or interoperability issues not easily isolated using existing tools
- Customized topology layouts facilitate better communication and shorten the training of new support staff
- Optional shared desktop feature (VNC viewer) facilitates working meetings between geographically separated IT staff or network engineering staff from different business units
Ten things you can do with the Route Explorer viewer
Here are ten things you can do with Route Explorer that you cannot easily do with traditional network management systems’ displays:- View the comprehensive routing topology of your multi-protocol, multi-domain network [HTML] [PDF]
- View the most complex routing hierarchies by abstracting and drilling down. [HTML] [PDF]
- Find routing and topology anomalies such as single points of failure or reduced redundancy, at-a-glance. [HTML] [PDF]
- Get a complete and up-to-the-minute inventory of all of your most vital network service parameters. [HTML] [PDF]
- Get a summary view of your network’s comprehensive Routing Information Base (RIB) now or at any point in recorded topology history. [HTML] [PDF]
- Compare the state of the RIB between now and any point in history or between any two points in history. [HTML] [PDF]
- Get a high level summary of all routing events between two points in time. [HTML] [PDF]
- See the history of the routing events in your network and drill-down for diagnosis or forensics. [HTML] [PDF]
- Show the exit routers for any Internet destination from all points of your network. [HTML] [PDF]
- Highlight the IP route between any two points in your network; see possible ECMP routes; perform scenario planning on link and router failures; experiment with potential link metric settings. [HTML] [PDF]
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