I need to be able to define cloud objects that have definition criteria. Primarily that would be one or more CIDR blocks used to enter the cloud. Then when I have a sweep of my network, and devices are discovered, if they have an interface that falls in that defined range, connectors would be made. This would allow auto layout tools to better understand the hierarchy when drawing a visual.
Create Cloud object (given a name: AT&T US); define networks for this cloud (10.23.4.0/22 ) and maybe pick things like color or size of the drawn object, even several shapes of cloud icons to allow for better visual acuity.
Then when I start a discovery, or re-run one, as it finds network interfaces like 10.23.5.5/30 it would see that it belongs inside the cloud range and would draw the connector into the cloud.
LiveAction & RedSeal are my examples of how this cloud definition could be handled. Both do this very well.
Now, having drawing tools that would allow me to add or tweak the connectivity map to illustrate things that cannot be auto discovered, would also be very useful.. but I have over 140 nodes in the cloud in the US alone, and I don't want to manually draw anything of that size :-D
