Inter-Node Communication Report
Overview
The Inter-Node Communication Report in Cloudamize provides detailed insights into all observed network-level communications between compute nodes (physical servers, virtual machines, cloud instances) within your environment. It highlights internal traffic flows, protocol usage, and connection dependencies between nodes (i.e., servers or endpoints), giving you a powerful foundation for migration planning, network design, security enforcement, and workload optimization.
It captures both inbound and outbound traffic and helps understand how workloads interact, where dependencies exist, and what connections are active or unnecessary.
This report forms the foundation of dependency mapping, helping organizations transition to proactive migration planning, modernization, and network optimization.
Steps to navigate to the Inter-Node Communication Report:
Log in to the console https://console.cloudamize.com/#/
Navigate to the Plan page of your completed assessment.
Click on the Reports Section as shown in the below screenshot under Plan section.
Click on Inter-Node Communication → Detailed to download the report.
Summary-
Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
Group | A logical or functional grouping of assets (e.g., by application, business unit, location, or environment). This categorization helps organize inter-node communication within contextually related systems. Group definitions are based on metadata such as tags, naming conventions, or manually assigned classifications in Cloudamize. |
Inter-Communicating Nodes | A list or summary of nodes (servers, VMs, or instances) within the group that are actively communicating with each other. This may be shown as pairs or as a set of nodes that exchange data over the network. |
Number of Inter-Communicating Servers | The total number of server nodes in the group that act as recipients of communication (i.e., servers responding to inbound connections from clients within or outside the group). |
Number of Inter-Communicating Clients | The total number of client nodes that initiate connections to other servers. These nodes represent the sources of outbound communications within the group or to other groups. |
Inter Communicating Nodes-
Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
Group | The logical classification or organizational unit assigned to the asset. This could represent a business unit, application group, geographic location, or environment (such as Development, Testing, or Production). Grouping helps to organize and analyze communication patterns within and across related sets of assets. |
Asset | The name or identifier of the physical or virtual machine involved in inter-node communication. This typically represents the hostname or device name of the server, VM, or compute instance. |
Instance | The specific instance identifier of the asset, especially useful in cloud or virtualized environments where multiple instances of the same asset or application may exist. This could be a cloud instance ID, VM name, or container ID that uniquely identifies the resource within the group. |
Inter-Communicating Server-
Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
Server Group | The logical grouping or classification of the server involved in the communication. This grouping could represent a business unit, application tier, data center location, environment (e.g., Production, Development), or other organizational categories that help contextualize the server’s role. |
Server Asset | The specific name or identifier of the server machine receiving or handling network communication. Typically, this is the hostname or device name of the physical server, virtual machine, or cloud instance. |
Server Instance | The unique instance identifier for the server asset, particularly relevant in cloud or virtualized environments. This could be a VM name, cloud instance ID, or container identifier that distinguishes the specific server instance within the broader server asset category. |
Inter-Communicating Client-
Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
Client Group | The logical grouping or classification of the client system initiating communication. This group can represent a business unit, application tier, geographic location, or environment (e.g., Development, Testing, Production) to provide context about where the client belongs within the organization. |
Client Asset | The name or identifier of the client machine that initiates network communication. Typically this is the hostname or device name of the physical or virtual machine or cloud instance acting as the client. |
Client Instance | The unique instance identifier of the client asset, especially important in virtualized or cloud environments where multiple instances of the same client asset may exist. This could be a VM name, cloud instance ID, or container ID to uniquely identify the resource. |
Example Report: