Dashboard for graphic display of computer network topology

A method comprising:

• generating, by a policy controller, an output comprising a graphic representation of a topology of a computer network, the computer network comprising one or more compute nodes interconnected by a packet-based communications network provided by a set of network devices, wherein the policy controller is configured to:
• filter the network devices into a first group comprising any of the network devices that are physically coupled to at least one of the compute nodes and a second group comprising any of the network devices that are not directly coupled to at least one of the compute nodes;
• sort the network devices in the second group into a ranked order listing based on a number of physical network connections each network device in the second group has with one or more other network devices in the second group;
• bucket the network devices in the second group into one or more bins based on the ranked order listing, wherein the number of network devices placed into each of the one or more bins is determined by a predetermined number of radial positions around a respective one of one or more radial arrangements;
• and
• output a graphic user interface that includes the graphic representation of the topology of the computer network including a plurality of graphic symbols representing the network devices and the compute nodes,
• wherein the graphic user interface includes a visual representation of the graphic symbols for the network devices arranged in the one or more radial arrangements, and
• wherein the one or more radial arrangements of graphic symbols includes one or more inner radial arrangements, each of the inner radial arrangements corresponding to a respective one of the bins into which the network devices are bucketed.

A computing system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage media;
• and
• a policy controller having access to instructions stored on the storage media, the policy controller configured to execute the instructions to perform a method comprising:
• filtering the network devices into a first group comprising any of the network devices that are physically coupled to at least one of the compute nodes and a second group comprising any of the network devices that are not physically coupled to at least one of the compute nodes;
• sorting the network devices in the second group into a ranked order listing based on a number of physical network connections each network device in the second group has with one or more other network devices in the second group;
• bucketing the network devices in the second group into one or more bins based on the ranked order listing, wherein the number of network devices placed into each of the one or more bins is determined by a predetermined number of radial positions around a respective one of one or more radial arrangements;
• and
• outputting a graphic user interface that includes the graphic representation of the topology of the computer network including a plurality of graphic symbols representing the network devices and the compute nodes,
• wherein the graphic user interface includes a visual representation of the graphic symbols for the network devices arranged in the one or more radial arrangements, and
• wherein the one or more radial arrangements of graphic symbols includes one or more inner radial arrangements, each of the inner radial arrangements corresponding to a respective one of the bins into which the network devices are bucketed.