Topology
Topology shows every captured device and the connections between them — with bandwidth and ports. No segment orders the picture here; the connection alone does that. Each device appears as one of three forms:
A firewall additionally carries an indented frame that marks it as a policy
boundary. If the map does not recognize a firewall, it shows it as an
ordinary device without that frame.
Bandwidth colors every connection by speed class, fixed on. The port names
of a connection appear as soon as the pointer rests on it. Several
connections between the same two devices appear combined as one line with a
number.
If a device carries ports, its detail area shows a section on port usage,
and a button there opens a second column beside it: one tile per port, grouped
by port group, each port marked Active or Inactive. A port without a
fixed number sits at the end of its group, with a lightning bolt instead of
a digit.
IP Networks
IP Networks shows which devices sit in which segment: every captured device at the IPv4 segments it holds an address in. A Segment is an IPv4 network address in CIDR notation. Each segment carries a kind, shown in its detail panel and derived from its address and the number of distributors on it:
Not to be confused with a distributor’s role (policy boundary or
forwarding, see IP Segments): both rows sit side by side in the same
detail panel but mean different things.
To keep the picture manageable, the map combines:
- A segment with only its own devices is combined into a single entry — the network address in the header, one row per device, grouped by device type.
- A redundancy pair of distributors appears as one Unit, a framed group.
- Pure coupling segments on a single distributor are combined into one node from two upward.
A device with no address in a known segment is counted but not drawn.
IP Segments
IP Segments shows only the framework: which distributors connect the segments. A distributor is a device with addresses in more than one segment — router, firewall or L3 switch. Only distributors are nodes here, the segments a distributor serves appear as connections between them. Every other device is contained in its segment and does not appear as a node of its own. Here too Public sits at the top of the picture, at the edge to the internet. A firewall acts as a policy boundary; every other distributor — router, L3 switch — connects segments without a rule. The summaries from IP Networks — the combined entry and the Unit — do not apply here, because no device sits in a single segment alone.Neither IP Networks nor IP Segments checks whether two segments overlap
or whether an address is assigned twice. Do not rely on these maps to find
IP conflicts.
The shared toolbar
All three maps carry the same toolbar.
A Preset saves a set of settings — arrangement, Starting From, location
filter and the checkmarks of Display — but not the search text. It applies
either to you alone or, with the Everyone badge, to every user of the data
source; without the right to save for everyone, that choice stays visible
but locked. If the map deviates from the applied preset, the button carries
a dot. Without write permission in the area, the buttons for saving,
editing, overwriting and deleting presets are missing; you can still apply
a preset. Reset settings returns arrangement, Starting From, location filter,
legend and Display to the state without remembered settings.