Geo Topology - LiveNX - 25.3.0

LiveNX Operations Dashboard User Guide

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en-US
Product name
LiveNX
Version
25.3.0

The Geo Topology provides an overview of the sites monitored by LiveNX. It can be used for understanding site status, projecting application traffic between sites and monitoring SDWAN.

Main menu - Geo Topology Geo Topology map

The icons to the upper right of the map provide additional options for the topology and what it displays.

Geo Topology map icons

The Current Alerts icon will provide a list of the most recent active Alerts.


Geo Topology map - Current Alerts

Clicking on an alert will provide more details and drill-down to additional data.


Geo Topology map - Alert details

The below icons allow you to focus on the desired area of the map.


Geo Topology map - Zoom icons

When the Toggle Layout Lock is unlocked, it allows you to click-and-drag a Site icon to the position desired. If geo location has been configured for a Site, the Site will default to the Site’s geo-coordinates.

Geo Topology map - Layout locked

The Toggle Display Mode icon controls what technologies area overlaid on the Geo Map.

Geo Topology map - Toggle Display Mode icon

Applications will overlay application traffic on the Geo Map.

Geo Topology map - Applications

By clicking on the Application traffic of interest, a pop-up will show details of the Flow. Click on the cross-launch icon will open a curated Sankey diagram on a new browser tab.


Geo Topology map - Application traffic

Site to Site Analysis

The Legend can be updated to select the context to show the Application data and traffic. In this example the Display By is set to WAN Applications.


Display by WAN Applications

In the following example the Display By is set to Service Provider.

Display by Service Provider

In the following example the Display By is set to DSCP.

Display by DSCP

Internet/Unknown will toggle showing applicable icons for each site sending Flow to either Internet or Unknown sites.


Applications - Internet/Unknown Sites

SD-WAN will toggle showing SDWAN tunnels between sites.

SD-WAN tunnels between sites

Tunnels are color coded by status.

SD-WAN tunnels color code

Clicking on a tunnel, will pop-up summary details about the tunnel status.

Tunnel status and summary

Hovering over a SLA Class/ Service Provider status block will provide more details. Clicking the status block will open a curated SDWAN report highlight Jitter, loss, and delay metrics for the tunnel.

SLA Class/Service Provider details

SD-WAN report

Clicking on a tunnels pop-up icon will open a Sankey diagram for the tunnel.

Tunnel's pop-up icon

Example Sankey diagram

This Sankey diagram is curated to focus on SDWAN performance. The Sankey diagram highlights the applications, the VRF, their DSCP, the service provider path the application took, and its status. For more details for the options of the Sankey page please refer to the Site To Site Analysis Story.

Example Sankey diagram

Filtering can be applied to find the specific Flows, Tunnels, and/or Sites with specific status of interests.

Geo Topology - Filters

Historic time ranges can be selected for finding the Flows of interests.

Date and time filters

The page can optionally be auto-refreshed by toggling the Auto button in the top right of the page.

Auto (refresh) button