Inter Switch Links View

This view displays the super spines, spines and leaves in a tiered fashion. The super spines are displayed in the top tier under the section <number of> Super Spines, the spines are displayed in the middle tier under the section <number of> Spines, and the leaves are displayed under the section <number of> Leaves. Any spine that has tier level defined as 3 or above is considered as a Super Spine. If there are no super spines defined, then the spines and leaves are shown in 2 tiers.

The leaves can be grouped into Pods. Leaves inside a pod are shown as circles inside a box. Pod is defined for the switch by using the command fabric connectivity pod <podname>. The pod name is considered as the title for the pod. Any switch that do not have pods defined are shown under the Default pod. Border leaves and Edge Routers, are shown in vertical tiers in the BL/Edge Router pod with a dashed line border around the pod. BL/Edge Router is the standard default name for the pod showing border leaves and edge routers.

The Pods are ordered as Default pod, followed by user-defined pods in alphabetical order, followed by BL/Edge Router pod. Pod can be maximized using the '+' button at the top-right corner. Pressing the button again will bring it back to the original size. The size of the node inside the pod depends on the pod size and the number of nodes inside the pod.

All the nodes are shown as circles. The color of the circle depends on the status of the links or the status of the switch according to the color coding legend displayed under the Nodes section in the left-hand pane. The numbers on the circles indicate how many links are down currently on the switch. The numbers are not displayed in case of green (all links are OK) or grey circle (unreachable).

Clicking on the spine or leaf node disables all other nodes in that tier and displays detailed information about the links for the selected node in the left-side pane. The status column in the table shows the status of the link as an icon.

When the mouse is hovered over the target switch, the link between the 2 nodes is shown as a line along with a detailed popup. The popup displays the source port, target port, and status. Also, the corresponding row in the table on the left side panel is highlighted

Clicking on the selected node again will deselect the node and enable all the disabled nodes.

The color of the line specifying the link between the switches depends on the status of the link as defined below.

Green – Links status is Normal.

Red – Link is down

Blue – Cable/Tier mismatch detected

Orange – Wrong Configuration Detected

When a node is selected, the status of the link between the selected node and all the target nodes that the selected node is connected to is depicted by a colored halo around the original circle. The color of the halo depends on the status of the link, as specified above.

Check Show Links to view links between the Spines and the Leaves, and the links between the Border Leaves and the Edge Router.

Search

The search box in the left side panel provides a quicker way to search for a spine or leaf by name. It also supports VM search, where a user can enter a VM name (partial or complete) or VM IP or VM Mac or Segment ID or VxLAN ID or Multicast Group and search for the leaf/leaves that the VM(s) belong to.

The search box provides an auto-complete feature, which filters and shows the matched switch names in a drop down as the user types into the text box. User can type the partial or complete switch name in the box and enter to see the filtered results. A 'Details' link is shown under the search text box that can be clicked to see the search results. If only one node matches the entered text, then that node is selected and the rest of the nodes in the tier are disabled. The details for the links for that node are displayed on the left side panel. If multiple switch names match the entered text, all the matched nodes are, but no details are shown in the left side panel.