Use Advanced Path Search

With Advanced Path Search, you can add more filters in your path search.

On the

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

home page, click

Network Map

In the

Network Map

page, click

Paths

In the

Source

and

Destination

text boxes, enter an entity query or IP address that you want to search. In general, you can use any query in the

Source

and

Destination

text boxes. For sample queries, see Search Queries for Entities.

Searches can match multiple entities, so that you can search for paths between a set of sources and a set of destinations.

Powered off VMs are not supported while performing a path search on the Network Map page. If you manually enter a powered off VM name in the

Source

Destination

field, path search will display the

Unknown Source

Unknown Destination

error message.

You cannot use a Cisco Nexus 2000 series fabric extender devices as a source or a destination as this device cannot generate or consume traffic.

To find the paths that traverse certain intermediate entities, click

Add a Hop

You can add multiple hops.

To add more option in your path search, click the

Advanced Options

check box and provide the required information.

Option	Action
Packet Headers at Source	Select one of the following: Source Port : Source transport port. Destination Port : Destination transport port. Protocol : Transport protocol.
Path Type	Select one of the following: Primary : To see the primary paths. Backup : To see the backup paths. All : To see all available types of paths.
Path Direction	Select one of the following: Forward : To see paths only in the forward direction. Bidirectional : To see the full round-trip path from source to destination and back.
Path Status	Select one of the following: All : To see both reachable and blocked paths. Reachable : To see paths for which packets reach the destination. Blocked : To see paths for which packets are blocked before reaching the destination. For example, because they are dropped by a firewall, dropped at a routing black hole, or are caught in a loop.

Click

SHOW PATHS

VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.14