Abstract
Distributed applications such as Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), may benefit from the capability of monitoring (dynamically requesting and displaying the status of a network) for management purposes. This document presents the enhancement of a graphical tool named NetView which was implemented in Santa Anna Laboratories, and allowed applications to display and monitor a generic network topology expressed as an XML-based file. In particular NetView may be used for displaying a multitude of aspects regarding physical and Virtual networks topology. The advantage of the use of NetView is that the visualization process is accomplished by issuing a simple request in terms of parameters and without any reference to the network technology implementation details.
