Are you talking avout the Network Map or the Google Map porlet for the 
Dashboard? They are entirely different.

In my opinion, they are both pretty useless. They use layer 3 data from the 
routing tables to determine relationships between devices. For me, a network 
spanning multiple core routers and hundreds of VLANS, the network map just 
looks like garbage. Plus Zenoss is not yet very good at pulling routing tables 
out of BGP routers.

To use the google map, you have to get a google map api key and install it in 
settings. Then just specify an address for each of your locations, and the map 
should populate.

To use the Network Map, you have to type  a device name or network name into 
the field, whatever you want to be the "center" of your network. Generally this 
would a core router...

There has been a lot of discussion about incorporating layer 2 relationships in 
Zenoss, which would be enormously useful (at least for me). Then you could have 
maps which would look something like phpweathermap, showing layer 2 
relationships and bandwidth over each link, etc.




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