Quick Tutorial: Adding a Floorplan Layout with Network Devices

UVexplorer has the capability to overlay an image of your floorplan with routers, switches, firewalls and all other assets. Simply, add a background image to your network map. This allows you to visualize the location of each device, helps with troubleshooting, and can be exported to PDF. This video takes you through the steps to create a floorplan with your network assets. Table of Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 0:31 - Background image button 0:41 - Scale the image as necessary 1:06 - Manually move the network device icon locations 1:41 - Other devices can be manually moved 1:56 - Background image can be for each category and device group 2:20 - Questions? Contact [email protected] Helpful links: https://www.uvexplorer.com/support Download UVexplorer and discover up to 500 network interfaces at: https://www.uvexplorer.com/uvexplorer/ If you still have questions don't hesitate to contact [email protected]. Feel free to comment for feedback or suggestions for other topics. Transcript: Hello, everyone. This is Paul Katzoff with UV Networks. We're looking here at UVexplorer today to demonstrate the image behind your network maps. For most of you, your network maps has created a design or diagram just like the one on the screen here. What we'd like to do is add in an image behind this typology. Go over here to the right side. There's a background image layer button on the bottom right. You can then right-click and select add image. Go ahead through your devices and choose your layout. Then you can drag this up and scale it up as needed. In this situation, we go ahead and place it here for this office layout. What you can do then is you switch back to the network topology layer and that allows you to manually move these devices to where they need to go. This will allow you to go through and move your devices wherever they need to go in your network map or layout map. You can move these devices around. This was set up a little better before, but as you can see, it did change a little bit. Cool. Now, what's nice is these devices are all listed. Now you know which office each of these switches or routers are in, and that helps you on your side on the troubleshooting. You also have your other device that's not connected up here. If you know where this is, you can go ahead and place it to where it should be as well. What's really nice about UVexplorer is you can go up here. This is the all core devices category. When I go to all devices, that map disappears. You can have an image for each of your categories. You can have an image in your device groups for each of your device groups as well. Let's move that up. For the mapping here, you can put in a different image for each of those as well. It's the background image layer button on the bottom right. You select that, right-click, and you can add an image. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We're here to help you and your network typology. Thank you.