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GUI Navigation🔗

Verity Workspace🔗

Verity Workspace is the "single pane of glass" through which you can configure Tenant Services, BGP gateways, Layer-3 instances, and apply these settings to network leaf ports.

Basic GUI Navigation🔗

The Verity GUI is designed to behave like Google Maps in that it uses a zoomable user interface. Panning and zooming is how you view sections in more detail. The more you zoom in, the more context is shown. You zoom in/out by scrolling with your mouse wheel or double clicking to focus on a section. A single mouse click lets you see one layer deeper without zooming in.

  • Pan - Hold-click on any point of the map and move the mouse. Keyboard arrow keys also support panning.
  • Zoom - Double-click on an object to go to a defined view. You can also drag and scroll the page to navigate. The + and - keyboard buttons also control zoom.
  • Center Object - While selected, use the keyboard keys Ctrl + Shift + H.

To navigate forward or back you use the navigation icons.

Navigation actions are also applied using keyboard commands by pressing SHIFT left arrow (back) or SHIFT right arrow (forward).

The navigation history is accessible from the navigation history button in the upper left of the window.

Clicking Icons referencing related objects within a given pane moves the user to the referenced object where it can be viewed or edited. All icons are described in mouse pop up tool tips, this helps you learn the options as you become more proficient in using the GUI.

Topology Navigation🔗

Network Representation🔗

The devices are described in visually descending order.

  1. Super Spines
  2. Pods
  3. Spines
  4. Leafs

Every spine connects to every leaf. For configurations where the number of leaf’s outnumber the ports on the spine, the network is broken up into Pods. The demonstration image contains two pods.

Leaf Pairs🔗

Leaf Pairs are represented by a border encapsulating the paired switches.

When zoomed in, the fabric connection is represented by the following image.

Color Connections🔗

Using color connection icons, the state of connection lines between devices is visually toggled based on their availability. The available state is depicted by a green color icon, while the down state is denoted by red, provisioning by gold and unstable by yellow. Each color connection icon incorporates a corresponding image that conveys a specific behavior. The eye image signifies that the color connections are presently displayed, while the icon indicates that the connection lines are hidden but still accessible. Lastly, the image indicates that no color connection lines are available for the selected state.

Toggle Color Connections of Leafs🔗
  • Enable the world view by clicking the World icon.
  • Determine the desired POD (if more than 1). Click the POD object icon.
  • Select the color connection(s) you want to enable or disable.

Buttons🔗

There are two types of buttons in the Verity UI, Regular buttons and Hex buttons.

Regular Buttons🔗

Regular buttons are scattered throughout the application and are used to perform different actions. If a button is not a Hex button it is a regular button. To perform an action with a regular button you left click it. There are many more regular buttons than those shown in the example above. A more detailed description of buttons is presented later in this document.

Hex Buttons🔗

Hex buttons represent tangible objects such as switches or other devices and respond to both right and left click mouse button actions.

Hovering over a hex button changes the mouse cursor into the icon.

Clicking a hex button causes the window view to center on the Hex button container. Right-clicking a hex button gives you additional options that apply to the object.

Jumping Views🔗

When you click the hex button a window “jump” is performed moving your view to the respective Provisioning section of the application. In the example below, a “jump” is made to the Eth Port Profile after clicking the hex button.

On the bottom left of the screen, there is a navigation depth tracker. You can click on the level you would like to directly navigate back to. An example is shown below.

Badges🔗

Badges are used to group devices visually.

Network View🔗

The Network View window resides inside the “World View” and displays virtual devices and connections that represent hardware devices in the physical network configuration.

Search Workbench🔗

The typical use case for troubleshooting is when an end user calls in a complaint about a malfunctioning service. In this case, the first action by the support personnel is to find the equipment related to providing the service and diagnosing element by element. At this point, the Verity GUI user enters the information received from the customer in the search box, and a list of related resources represented as hex icons is presented. From that list, the GUI user clicks the icon to jump to the selected resource or they can right-click to select from a drop-down menu of troubleshooting options.

Jump Workbench🔗

To quickly jump to an area in the GUI, the user can use the Jump workbench and click on the listed sections: Hardware, Provisioning, and Endpoint Collections. By clicking the arrows, the user can access different sections of the GUI by clicking on the options in the dropdown.

System Event Log🔗

The System Event Log provides detailed information regarding all actions (user induced, equipment induced, etc.) affecting the network. Generally, when failures occur in a network, either a physical component has failed, or a user has logged in and changed provisioning. The log can be filtered on various criteria and gives the user all the details needed to view the recent history of the network.

The navigation history provides navigation short-cuts to the locations on the orchestration map that the user has recently viewed.

Growl History🔗

Growls are usually fatal errors that occur between the client browser and the Verity orchestration platform. Holding the mouse over the growl gives the user more detail about the error. Other information may be conveyed by the growl, but most information about the network is retrieved from the System log mentioned above.

Alerts🔗

Alerts are active system anomalies regarding provisioning, device issues and “Monitored Port” exceptions.

Highlighter🔗

Highlighter is a powerful tool for tracing an object usage anywhere in the GUI. It is shown within the various objects and at the bottom center of the map. When you use the highlight tool, a purple hue is applied to the selected object. The user cannot use highlighter in the world view.