Port Mapping

Every device drawn as its faceplate, to scale, with each NIC and port where it sits on the chassis. This is where the network is cabled. Power items are shown here read-only; they are wired in Power Budget.

What you can do here

Task	How
Place a device	1 / 3 / 4, then click the canvas
Add a NIC to a server	5, then click the server
Draw a cable	C, click a port, click the other port
Draw N cables at once	C, + to set N, click the first port of each side
Split a switch port	Select the port, set Breakout to 2× or 4×
Bond ports	Select a port, Bond → + New bond, then add the other members
Record link state	Select the cable, set Link and Negotiated speed
Move a device	Drag its card
Arrange everything	Auto Layout (Ctrl+L)
Show the other face	Back | Front at the top

See Adding items for the full cable workflow.

Showing cables

Network cables are hidden by default, because a full fabric hides the ports. Selecting a device, port or cable shows the cables that touch it. The Hide/Show Cables toolbar button shows them all. Straight / Orthogonal Cables switches how they are drawn.

Back and front

Only one face of the chassis is drawn at a time. Back | Front at the top switches it; NICs installed on the other face are hidden, and so are cables that don't have both ends on the face shown.

Port colours

The legend in the bottom-left corner explains them:

Port	Meaning
Bright green	Cabled, link up
Muted green	Cabled, link state unknown
Hollow	Cabled, link down
Grey	Free
Small amber dot	Running below what it could (negotiated below the cable's capacity)
Purple outline	Member of a bond

A breakout port is drawn as its lanes, each with its own colour. A cable with a negotiated speed is labelled with it, for example 100G (of 200G).

In the DSL

Cables are <Cable> elements; their ends are port paths such as leaf-01/links/swp1:0. A device's position on this canvas is its position.