JUNIPER MX204 Routing Assurance
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SUMMARY
Juniper Routing Assurance enables you to onboard routers and monitor their health and performance. Juniper Routing Assurance collects routing insights and platform information from the routers and displays them on a dashboard. To see the list of routers that Juniper Routing Assurance supports, see “Supported Hardware Platforms” on page 5.
Install the Router
Follow the instructions in the hardware documentation to unbox the device, mount it on a rack, and power on the device. For details about installing a device, see the device’s Hardware Guide (on the Routing > View More section of the Documentation site) or the Quick Start Guide.
Prerequisites
Before you can onboard a router to Juniper Routing Assurance, you’ll need to ensure that you have:
- Login credentials to access Juniper Routing Assurance (https://routing.ai.juniper.net/).
- Super User role in the organization.
- Created the site to which the router needs to be onboarded.
- Configured firewall to allow outbound access on TCP port 2200 from the management port of the router.
- Enabled Internet access from the router. You can verify this by pinging the IP address 8.8.8.8.
For more information, see Juniper Routing Assurance Quick Start Guide.
Up and Running
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Onboard Routers
You must first onboard the router to Juniper Routing Assurance and assign it to a site. After the router is onboarded, Juniper Routing Assurance starts providing information about the router’s health and performance.
Before you onboard a router, ensure that;
- The router can reach the gateway.
- The router can connect to the Internet. You can verify this by pinging the IP address 8.8.8.8.
- The firewall is configured to allow outbound access on TCP port 2200.
- Take a backup of the existing Junos OS configuration on the router by running the following command on the router’s CLI.
user@host> request system configuration rescue save
Backup configuration is saved in the config directory.
To onboard a router:
- Log into Juniper Routing Assurance.
- Navigate to Organization > Inventory.
The Inventory page appears. - On the Routers tab, click Adopt Routers.
The Router Adoption page appears displaying the outbound SSH configuration that needs to be committed on the router to establish a connection with Juniper Routing Assurance. - Click Copy to Clipboard to copy the CLI commands to the clipboard.
- Log into the router’s CLI using SSH and enter configuration mode.
- Paste the contents of the clipboard and commit the configuration on the router.
[edit] user@host# set system services ssh protocol-version v2
[edit] user@host# set system authentication-order password
[edit] user@host# set system login user ai-prod class super-user
[edit] user@host#…nmgvFTc2SdRnZECGa9UHhD.hWuolkoR2abFKk/fkz28IRf.9nJnWXmX8.p41DDjc/
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[edit] user@host# commit
commit complete - In Juniper Routing Assurance page close the Router Adoption page. Click Organization > Inventory > Routers tab.
The Inventory page appears displaying the newly onboarded router in the Unassigned state.
NOTE: After the outbound SSH configuration is committed from the router’s CLI, it takes about three minutes for the router to be displayed on the Inventory page in Juniper Routing Assurance.
Assign Routers to Sites
After the router is onboarded successfully, you must assign the router to a site.
To assign a router to a site:
- From the menu, click Organization > Inventory > Routers tab.
The onboarded routers are displayed.
The status of a router that is onboarded to Juniper Routing Assurance, but is not assigned to a site appears as
Unassigned. - Select the router that you want to assign to a site and click the More drop-down list.
- Click Assign to Site.
The Assign Routers pop-up appears. - From the site drop-down list, select the site you want to assign the router to and click Assign to Site.
- Click Close to close the assign routers pop-up.
After the router is assigned to a site, the status of the router changes to Connected, indicating that the router can be monitored from Juniper Routing Assurance. The status of a router changes to Disconnected if your network stops allowing outbound SSH connection or if the outbound SSH configuration is removed from the router.
NOTE: You can monitor a router only after it is assigned to a site.
View Router Insights
After a router is connected to Juniper Routing Assurance, you can view information about the health of the routing platform and its components, the router’s performance, and connectivity. Administrators can use this information to proactively respond to network events that impact network traffic. You can view router insights by clicking Router Insights from the Routers: Router name page.
NOTE: After a device is onboarded, the current device information is displayed first, along with by a Lime stamp in the top right corner of the table. Graphs are populated after the required aggregation nterval of 10 minutes or 1 hour, depending on the requested time-range.
NOTE: After an event occurs in the network, it takes up to three minutes for the events to be visible in the router insights dashboard in Juniper Routing Assurance.
Information that Juniper Routing Assurance provides includes the following:
- Front panel, port list, and physical inventory information
- Routing table information
- BGP sessions and BGP peer information
- OSPF summary information
- Router interface queues
- Router charts displaying CPU and memory utilization and port errors
- Visualization in charts and graphs
- Site-level aggregation of router events
Supported Hardware Platforms
*Juniper Routing Assurance currently supports MX480 and MX960 routers with the following Gigabit Ethernet type MPCs: MPC7E 3D MRATE-12xQSFPP-
XGE-XLGE-CGE, MPC10E-10C-MRATE, MPC10E-15C-MRATE and, MPC3E-3D-NG-Q.
Keep Going
Step 3
What’s Next
| If you want to | Then |
| Know more about the routing insights that Juniper Routing Assurance provides | See Router Insights |
| Troubleshoot routing issues. | See Router Utilities |
General Information
| If you want to | Then |
| Know more about Juniper Routing Assurance | Juniper Routing Assurance Documentation |
| Learn about new features in Juniper Routing Assurance | Release Notes |
Learn With Videos
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| Get short and concise tips and instructions that provide quick answers, clarity, and insight into specific features and functions of Juniper technologies. | See Learning with Juniper on Juniper Networks main YouTube page |
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Documents / Resources
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JUNIPER MX204 Routing Assurance [pdf] User Guide MX204 Routing Assurance, MX204, Routing Assurance, Assurance |