Wizard

Wizard Tutorial

General Information

In this tutorial you will learn how to create large topologies using the wizard integrated in the topology editor.

The tutorial assumes that you already read and understood the basic UserTutorial and that you have opened the topology editor.

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The upper most button of the palette on the left of the editor shows a "Wizard" icon.

All wizard functionality can be used by clicking this icon.

There are two main functionalities of the wizard:

If you click the icon without having selected any components of the topology, you can create a new topology.
If you select existing hosts of the topology and then click the icon, you can connect the existing hosts as a new topology.

An example is given below.

Creating a large example topology

In the following, we will use the wizard to create a large example topology:

First, we want to create a star with 5 hosts around a central host and place it on the upper left side of the editor.

Therefore, we first open the wizard by clicking the icon.

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The appearing dialog allows to configure the automatic topology that should be created. You can chose one of currently five different topology types, provide the number of nodes the topology should contain. Furthermore, you can define device information that will be setup for all nodes of the topology. If you select "additional Internet connection", an Internet node will be add to the topology and all nodes will be connected to this node to obtain a public IP interface.

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We configure the desired star around host...

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... and click "create".

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Then, we drag the area to the place where the topology should be created.

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If we click "create topology", the topology is created.

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Analogeously, we add a full mesh topology with 4 hosts.

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And a ring topology with 6 hosts, having an additional Internet connection.