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Network Map

The Maps tab strip links three views of your network: the Network Map, the Sites Map, and the RF Planner. Coverage predictions moved into the RF Planner, and old /coverage bookmarks redirect there; the Network map is described first, including its Utilization edge layer, the old weathermap, then the Sites map and the location data it depends on.

Network Topology

The Network map draws your devices and the links between them as an interactive graph. Topology is discovered automatically from your devices over LLDP and CDP: nodes are the devices you monitor, the neighbours discovered on their ports, and the sites they belong to, while edges are the links between them. The map updates itself as devices, links, and alerts change.

  • Monitored or all devices: the Monitored Devices tab shows your managed devices; All Devices adds everything discovered on the way
  • Summary stats: total devices, monitored devices, discovered devices, and total connections
  • Edge layers and filters: the Edges selector colours links by link health or by bandwidth utilization (the old weathermap's view, with its Good/Moderate/High/Critical stats); filters show all links, degraded links, sites with alerts, or only hot links on the utilization layer
  • Search: find any node by name, IP address, site, or manufacturer
  • Layouts: auto layout places sites geographically when they have coordinates and by connectivity otherwise; geo and tree pin the mode explicitly, and dragging a node pins it until Reset layout
  • Node details: click a node to see its address, site, client count, and connections, with a link through to the device page; click a link to see its type, health, and utilization

Subscriber trace map

The subscriber trace's Subscriber card shows a small map of the subscriber's address, using stored address coordinates or an address lookup. When the serving access point identifies a tower site with coordinates, a second marker and a straight line connect the subscriber to that tower. The line shows the serving relationship, not verified line of sight or RF health. Missing or ambiguous tower data leaves the subscriber marker alone; an address that cannot be located shows an explanation instead of a guessed pin.

Sites Map

The Sites tab is a geographic view of your sites on an interactive OpenStreetMap map. Sites with both a latitude and a longitude are displayed as markers that you can click to see the site's name, description, address, coordinates, and device count, with a link through to the site page. The header summarises how many sites you have and how many of them are geocoded.

Adding Location Data

Each site can have an address and/or latitude/longitude coordinates. You can set these in two ways:

  • Manual entry: Enter latitude and longitude directly in the site edit form
  • Geocoding: Enter a street address and click "Geocode" to look the coordinates up automatically

Geocoding Setup

Geocoding needs no setup. With no API key configured, addresses are looked up through OpenStreetMap Nominatim, which is free and keyless but limited to one lookup per second across the whole installation, a second click inside that second is refused and asks you to retry.

For higher volume or better address coverage, your administrator can set a Google Maps Geocoding API key as the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY environment variable on the server; lookups then use Google Maps instead, with no rate limit of ours. Either way the success message names the service that answered, and you can always type latitude and longitude in by hand. The map display itself uses OpenStreetMap tiles and requires no API key.

Sites Map Features

  • Interactive pan and zoom with OpenStreetMap tiles
  • Click any site marker to see site details and open the site page
  • Auto-fits the map to show all your sites
  • Summary stats showing total sites and geocoded sites
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