how to fine tune and maintain site hierarchy

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How to Fine Tune and Maintain Site Hierarchy

Application Scenario:

When defining sites or benchmarking network after network topology changes, your sites may change or

may not go as expected to some extent. You could fine tune your sites and maintain your site up-to-date

without having to re-define the total sites.

This document introduces how to fine tune and maintain sites based on the following cases:

One Cluster matches more than 1 Site

Cluster does not match any sites

Site without any devices

Solution:

One Cluster matches more than 1 Site

In the Site Manager window, click a Cluster node in the Site Tree on the left window, click the Site

Member tab on the right. You’ll see multiple devices listed under different leaf sites in the Static Site

column, and this message at the top: The Cluster matches more than 1 site.

To resolve this cluster site, you can find the edge interface and split the devices to their own leaf sites by

following the instruction below:


a) Right-click the cluster and choose Map All Devices to create a new Qmap.

b) Highlight sites in the map from the map Floating menu (Highlight > Site…), select all leaf sites

and click OK.

In the following window, we can see that there are several interconnection points (LAN

segments/WAN segments) between sites.

c) Right click the interconnected WAN segments and choose Add to Border Interface List to

switch back to the Boader Interface tab of the Site Manager window.


d) Click the Rebuild Site button to reassign the devices to the leaf sites, and the “old” Cluster site

will be removed from the Site Tree.

Cluster does not match any sites

In the Site Manager window, click a Cluster node in the Site Tree on the left window, and click the Site

Member tab on the right. If you don’t see anything in the “Static Site” column, that means all devices in

the cluster do not belong to any sites. You will also see this message at the top: “No Matched Site".


To resolve this cluster site, you can either set it as a new leaf site or merge it to an existing leaf site:

a) Set the selected cluster as a leaf site

Right click the cluster in the Site Tree and choose Set as a Site. Input a Site Name in the Create

a Leaf Site window and click OK, it will build the new leaf site under My Network Site layer.

b) Merge it to an existing site

If the devices in the cluster should be part of an existing site, right click the cluster in the Site

Tree and choose Merge to site. The cluster can only be merged to a leaf site. In the Merge to

Site window, select the leaf site, click OK. NetBrain will navigate to the merged leaf site and list

all devices merged from the cluster site.


Click the Rebuild Site button to calculate the sites, and the “old” Cluster site will be removed

from the Site Tree.

Site without any devices

If there is a site without a number next to the sitename, this means the site does not include any devices.

Click the Site Member tab, you will see no devices listed in the table and this message at the top: “No

Matched Cluster ".

To add devices to the leaf site, select the leaf site in the Site tree, click the Static Definition tab as shown

below. There are 3 ways to add devices to a leaf site manually:


o Via Border Interfaces

Click the Select button from the Border Interface section, search a device and select the appropriate

interface to be set as a border interface. NetBrain will auto add the corresponding devices to the leaf

site.

Select the Border Interface from the Device Interface List on the left side.

Click > button and add the Border Interface to the Interface list on the right side.

Click OK to add the selected Border Interface to the site.

Refer to the screenshot below:


o Via Dynamic Search

In the Dynamic Search section, select a search criteria (e.g. hostname or Interface IP) to add

matched devices to the leaf site.

Select Hostname from the search criteria, set the match operation to Contains, and then input a

keyword.

Click the Search button, the corresponding devices will be added to the current site.

o Via Static Add

Click the Add button to add a device to the leaf site manually.


Click the Add button to open the Select Device(s) window and select devices in the Device List.

1) Click > button and add the devices to the device list on the right pane.

2) Click OK to add the selected devices to the current site.

3) Click the Rebuild Site button to calculate the sites, then click the Commit button to update the

changes to NetBrain Server.

Note: If you find any problems when following these steps, please enter F1 on your key board to reference online help. Or

you could also contact NetBrain support team at [email protected].

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