Create Fabric Maps

To create Fabric Maps:

On the left navigation pane, click on and under Physical > Orchestrated Flows> Fabric Maps, click Create.

The following table describes the parameters displayed in the fabric map list view.

Field	Description
Alias	Alias name of the fabric map. Note: GigaVUE-FM does not allow you to configure fabric maps alias to start with _FM_, _FM-, FMAuto-. These prefixes are used in auto-generated fabric map alias.
Enabled	Indicates if fabric map is enabled – Yes/No
Source	Number of source ports associated with fabric map
Destination	Number of destination ports associated with fabric map
Rules	Rules for fabric map
GigaSMART Alias	Alias name of the GigaSMART operation
Type	Port type
Status	Health status of the fabric map

Click Create.The create map screen is displayed.

Enter map parameters as described in the following table:

Field

Description

Basic Info

Alias

Alias name of the fabric map

Description

Fabric map description

Enable

Toggle option that lets you toggle between:

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Enable: Traffic passes through the fabric map that is created.

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Disable: Traffic is temporarily prevented from passing through fabric map if 'Disable' is selected.

Note: You cannot disable the second-level maps (option is disabled in the UI). Alternatively, you must disable the corresponding first-level map.

Resource Allocation

Displays whether it uses shared or non-shared circuit id resources.

Type

Map type. Options are:

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Regular

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First level

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Second level

Subtype

Map subtype. Options are:

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By Rule

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Pass All

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Collector

Source

Source port. Use the Search by Node toggle bar to toggle between the following two options

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Enter the port alias/port id (Respective Cluster Id is displayed for selecting the required ports), or

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Specify the source node and source ports. Use the +/- icon to add new nodes or remove source ports.

Note: You cannot use ports already used as source ports in the orchestrated configuration.

Rules

Enable Non-Matching Rules for map type ‘Regular’. Use the toggle bar to either Pass all traffic or not.

The following options are available:

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Quick Editor: To select the port number or numbers to add for a pass or drop rule or both.

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Import: To import a map template

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Add a Rule: To add a description and select one or more conditions. Use this option to add rules one at a time. Click the +/- icon to add or delete rules and conditions.

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You can also associate tags to the map rules.

Note: When you associate a tag to a rule in Fabric map, GigaVUE-FM associates the same tag to the internally created flow maps. The visualizations displayed in the Map Rule Statistics dashboard is based on the tags associated with the internal flow maps .

Refer to the Add Tags to Map Rules section for more details.

GigaSMART Operation

Select a GigaSMART node and operation.

Destination

Destination port. You can either:

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Enter the port alias/port id, or

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Specify the destination node and destination ports. Use the +/- icon to add new nodes or remove destination ports.

Use the toggle bar to toggle between these two options. Click the Tool Finder option to search for the available destination ports.

You can also use Fabric Port Group as destination for the second level maps to allow load-balanced traffic. You must enter the name of the FPG created. (For details, refer to Fabric Port Group section).

Note: Starting in software version 5.7, you can also select the Null Port option for the second level maps if you do not want to send the traffic to any physical port. Refer to the “Create Application Filtering Intelligence by Selecting Applications from Dashboard” section for the use of null port in application intelligence solution.