WhatsUp Gold provides a suite of layout and drawing tools to organize, annotate, and enhance the My Networkmap. WhatsUp Gold Custom Layout tools enable you to detail and better represent your specific network environment in a way that makes your site's operational tasks more fine tuned, easier, and collaborative.

Important: When viewing dynamic group and Layer 2 dynamic group maps with Custom Layout enabled, be aware that applicable custom link lines are lost in the event a connected device leaves the dynamic group currently displayed. If that device returns to the dynamic group, any previously existing custom link lines and map positioning may not be restored and/or the device may appear as new.
Tip: You can visualize, save, and share report-ready representations of your WhatsUp Gold network map using the Map View report.

To begin customizing your map, click to disable the automatic map arrangement defined by WhatsUp Gold, then, click to display the map editing tools.

Use the following controls to manipulate your annotations:

Bring the selected object to the front of the map.

Send the selected object to the back of the map.

Lock the selected object.

Unlock the selected object.

Clone the selected object.

Delete the selected object.

Display Options

  • Enable Always show labels to ensure device names remain displayed on your custom map regardless of zoom level.
  • Enable Clip device names to display truncated device names below icons on the custom map. Please note, when this option is enabled:
    • For domain name servers, everything prior to the first "." is displayed.
    • For devices using IPv4, only the IP address is displayed.
    • For devices using IPv6, only the compressed IP address is displayed.
    • For all other devices, the first ten characters followed by ellipses "..." is displayed.
  • Enable Device names in uppercase to display device names in all capitalized characters.
  • Enable Show graph paper to display the grid background behind the mapped nodes.
  • Enable Snap to grid to force device icons and annotations to align with background grid intersection points when repositioning.

Annotations

Use the following controls to annotate the map display:

Draw a line segment.

Draw a rectangle.

Draw a circle.

Draw a cloud.

Import an image file.

Add text.

The controls displayed in the annotation edit panel reflect the item or items selected on the custom map. Any changes made to style settings are applied to all selected map annotations. For line segments, both width and color can be defined by the user by selecting the number of pixels for the former and either selecting from a color palette or entering a specific HEX code for the latter. The same controls are available for the rectangle, circle, and cloud shapes along with the added ability to control what fill color the shape uses, if any. In the case of rectangles, the corner radius may also be customized by selecting a pixel value. When text boxes are added to the custom map, line width, line color, and fill can be defined for the shape along with commonly used options for the actual text including bold, italic, underline, strike through, as well as font style and size. Please note, map annotations may be connected to devices and device groups as well as other annotations using custom links.

Custom maps support the following bulk actions applicable to user-defined annotations:

  • Select
  • Move
  • Lock/Unlock
  • Bring to front/Send to back
  • Clone
  • Delete

Scale and Layout

The following additional controls allow you to adjust the scale and layout of your map nodes:

  • Click Detect map rendering problems to check for issues with current scale settings and node spacing which may prevent WhatsUp Gold from successfully rendering all available map elements.
  • Click Use auto layout to automatically arrange the map nodes as if Auto Layout was enabled while retaining the ability to customize your map view.
  • Click Delete annotations to remove map elements added manually by the user.
  • Increase or decrease the Scale factor to automatically adjust the spacing between nodes and annotations and ensure all map elements can be displayed properly.
  • Increase or decrease the Scale nodes setting to only adjust the size of nodes on the map.
  • Increase or decrease the Scale annotations setting to only adjust the size of map elements added manually by the user.
  • Increase or decrease the Scale everything setting to adjust the size of everything currently displayed on the Custom Layout map view.