As IT technologies have expanded onto to the plant floor, there has been a growing divide between IT and operations teams (OT). Things like operating system updates, switch failure, and other things expose risks to plant operations, which are not always understood. IntraVUE^® is a tool that helps the operations team have visibility into what is connected within the plant. Additionally, it shows how the device is currently connected, and how its connection has performed over a period of time. It does so without introducing the risk that the operations team can make changes to the network unauthorized by IT admin team – bringing more visibility and performance analytics without the risk.