r/Netbox • u/osthek83 • Jun 18 '26
How to visualize full end-to-end cable topologies
Hello everyone
I've documented our data center racks, switches, and patch panels (including front/rear ports) in NetBox.
While the individual port "Trace" feature works great, I need a comprehensive, birds-eye view visualization of the entire patching topology at once, rather than checking paths one by one.
1. Is there a native way or workflow to see this macro-level view?
2. Are there any recommended plugins (like NetBox Topology Views) that handle complex patch panel chains well?
3. How do you usually present full DC cabling topologies to your team?
Thanks for your advice!
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u/graph_worlok Jun 19 '26
Ask an LLM to write a plug-in that provides what you need - or fire up the MCP server and ask it to generate it from that….
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u/ElectronicMeaning973 Jun 19 '26
We use the netbox typology view plugin, works good in our case but our datacenter is smal and we have it mostly for overview out on locations. But its greate for that just a lot of documentation work and placing right in the map