Topology & reporting · 5 min read · topologydashboard

Read and use the live topology map

What the colors, shapes and connections on the topology view actually mean, and how to use it during an incident.

What you'll need

  • No special prerequisites, just a Zynty account.
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How the map is built

Zynty builds topology from a combination of SNMP neighbor discovery (LLDP/CDP), routing tables, and manually defined links, no separate mapping tool required.

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Read device status by color

Green means healthy, amber means degraded (a threshold breached but the device is still up), red means unreachable. A degraded node stands out before it becomes a full outage.

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Trace blast radius during an incident

Click any node to highlight everything downstream of it, useful for quickly answering "what else is affected" when a core or distribution device goes down.

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Export for documentation

Export the current topology as an image or PDF, handy for change requests, onboarding new team members, or NIS2 asset-inventory evidence.