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Chapter 3. Using the Skydive UI

Use the Skydive UI to perform a number of tasks, such as viewing your network topology. By default, you access the UI through a web browser on port 8082. For example: https://192.168.123.141:8082.

The default view shows all your physical nodes. Click the Expand button to see the full view for a node:

expand nodes

The expanded node displays the virtual networking topology:

skydive expanded example

In this example, the physical node osp-node05 contains various connection types; these are presented in different colors to distinguish their functions:

  • Beige: The physical NICs and the OVS interface br-ex
  • Blue: The network namespaces created for the OpenStack projects.
  • Red: Indicates that the network interface is down.

To see additional details, click the same Expand button again:

expand nodes

This view reveals further details of the network topology, such as the instance interfaces within a Project’s namespace:

expanded namespace