Labels

Node labels

When you click on a node in the topology diagram, a view pops up with node details:

The table belows shows where the values of each field in the popup come from, depending on the type of the topology.

Label	NetBox	Containerlab	Live Data
Name	nodes: {name}	nodes: {name}	N/A
Full name	N/A	longname	Ansible inventory
Hostname	N/A	N/A	hostname
Kind	N/A	kind	N/A
Image	N/A	image	N/A
Group	labels: group	labels: group	N/A
Role	labels: role	labels: role	N/A
Vendor	labels: vendor	labels: vendor	N/A
Model	labels: model	labels: model	N/A
Platform	labels: platform	labels: platform	vendor model
Version	N/A	N/A	os_version
IPv4	mgmt-ipv4-address	mgmt-ipv4-address	N/A
IPv6	mgmt-ipv4-address	mgmt-ipv6-address	N/A

Special labels

Label	NetBox	Containerlab	Live Data
Node icon	labels: graph-icon	labels: graph-icon	N/A
Node level	labels: graph-level	labels: graph-level	N/A
Node display mode	labels: graph-mode	labels: graph-mode	N/A

Node icons

Possible graph-icon values, based on Cisco DevNet NeXT UI API doc:

label: graph-icon
switch
router
wlc
server
phone
nexus5000
ipphone
host
camera
access
cloud
unlinked
firewall
hostgroup
wirelesshost

port visualization mode

Some nodes that can be used within the topology may not act as regular network devices. Examples of such nodes could be

• Linux hosts with disabled IP forwarding,
• Traffic Generators.

If such node has multiple interfaces connected to the emulated topology, its visualization might not represent their role well. To address this, there is a special port visuzalization mode available in Graphite. With such mode enabled for a node, each its interface would be displayed as a separate icon with a name "interface-name@node-name". Below is an example of using port mode for ixia-c-one traffic generator, together with a "cloud" icon:

    ixia:
      kind: keysight_ixia-c-one
      image: ghcr.io/open-traffic-generator/ixia-c-one:0.0.1-2770
      labels:
        graph-icon: cloud
        graph-mode: port
  links:
    - endpoints: ["pe-router:eth1","ce-router:eth1"]
    - endpoints: ["pe-router:eth2","ixia:eth1"]
    - endpoints: ["ce-router:eth2","ixia:eth2"]

The ixia node will be visualized as two icons eth1@ixia and eth2@ixia: