Understanding Network Director and the Management Lifecycle
Modes
Junos Space Network Director enables unified management
of Juniper Networks WLC Series Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), EX
Series Ethernet Switches, EX Series switches with ELS, QFX Series
switches, QFX Series switches with ELS, Data
Center fabrics (Junos Fusion system, QFabric system, Virtual Chassis
Fabrics, and Layer 3 Fabrics) and cloud-based and baremetal-based
data centers in your network. Providing full network lifecycle management,
Network Director simplifies the discovery, configuration, visualization,
monitoring, and administration of large networks. Operators can quickly
deploy a network by using it, configure it optimally to improve network
uptime and maximize resources, and respond agilely to the needs of
applications and users.
The Network Director user interface is based on the network
management lifecycle. The interface provides five main working modes
that are aligned to the network management lifecycle, and a sixth
mode for working with Network Director itself. Each mode provides
access to different tasks:
- Build mode—Use Build mode to build your network
in Network Director. You use Build mode to discover the devices in
your network, to create and manage device configurations, and to manage
devices. You can also organize your devices into hierarchal groupings
based on logical relationships or by physical locations. To support
flexible, large-scale deployment of devices, Build mode enables you
to apply configurations across multiple devices grouped by logical
relationships, physical locations, or type.
- Deploy mode—Use Deploy mode to deploy and manage
changes to devices. In Deploy mode, you deploy the configurations
you built in Build mode, install new software images on your devices,
and manage device configuration files.
- Monitor mode—Use Monitor mode to gain visibility
into your network performance and health. Monitor mode provides a
host of information about your network such as the operational status
of devices, traffic patterns and trends, client session statistics,
port capacity, and wireless signal throughput and interference patterns.
You can also search for a user and view a history of the user sessions.
- Fault mode—Use Fault mode to gain visibility into
unexpected network events and to manage faults or notifications.
- Report mode—Use Report mode to generate reports
from the data that Network Director stores on network performance,
status, and activity.
In addition to these modes, Network Director enables you to
perform system level tasks from the System button and the Preferences
button. System level tasks include viewing the Network Director user
and system audit trail, managing jobs, and gathering logs for troubleshooting.
Benefits of Network Director
- Provides network agility by offering holistic view of
your network by providing unified management of wired and wireless
infrastructures with a campus and datacenter.
- Simplifies network orchestration allowing you to adapt
seamlessly to the constantly changing configurations in a network.
- Boosts operational efficiency and enables error free deployment
using simple, innovative guided wizards.
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