About the Tunnel Tab (Planner)

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks on the Tunnels tab:

• View tunnel traffic—You can view the historical data for tunnel traffic. To view tunnel traffic, select one or more tunnels from the list and click View > Tunnel Traffic. The tunnel traffic page appears. On this page, you can view a graphical representation of tunnel traffic that has been collected over a period. This historical data provides you valuable insights into past trends and patterns.

  Click the pin icon to pin the page anywhere on the screen so that you can continuously monitor the historic data.

  Note: For Routing Director to display the tunnel traffic graph, you must have imported a production network along with data. Also, ensure that you have loaded an interface statistic file from the View Stats page (Planning > Networks > Offline Models > Model-Name > More > View Stats). For more information, see Traffic Matrix Workflow.

• View tunnel path—You can view the path of tunnel traffic by selecting one tunnel from the list and click View > Tunnel Path. The Tunnel Path page appears. On this page, you can view a tree structure of tunnel path that illustrates how the tunnel navigates across the network topology. The tree structure provides valuable insights into the path layout across multiple nodes.

  Note: Tunnel Path is available only for tunnels provisioned with SR (Segment Routing) as the type and Route by Device as the routing method.

• Download—To download tunnels-related data to your local system, click Download. The data is downloaded to your local system as a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

• From the More list, you can perform the following tasks:

  • View details of a tunnel—To view the details of a tunnel, you can do one of the following:

    • Select a tunnel on the table and click More > Show Details.

    • Hover over a tunnel row in the table and click the Details icon.

    The Tunnel - Tunnel-Name page appears.

  • Force delete a tunnel—Use the Force Delete option to delete a tunnel that is no longer present in the network but remains in the network model.

    To force delete a tunnel:

    1. Select one or more tunnels from the Tunnel tab and click More > Force Delete. Alternatively, right-click on the selected tunnel and select Force Delete.

       A confirmation message appears.

    2. Click Yes.

       The tunnel is deleted from the table and the topology map.

  • Create diverse tunnels to the network model—Click More > Create Diverse Tunnels to add new diverse tunnels. For more information, see Create Diverse Tunnels.

  • Add tunnels to the network model—Click + to add new tunnels. For more information, see Create a Tunnel (Planner).

  • Reload—To view the latest changes in the network table, click Reload.

• Edit a tunnel—To edit a tunnel, select the tunnel and click the edit icon to open the Edit Tunnel page. After you edit, click Submit. A message confirms that the edit request is sent.

  Note:

  You cannot edit the name of a tunnel.

• Delete a tunnel—To delete a tunnel, select a tunnel and click the delete icon. A message confirms that the device is deleted.

• To perform common actions such as filtering using advanced filter criteria and resetting preferences, see Network Table Overview.