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Discovering and Assigning All N-PE Devices

Prestaging all Ethernet Activator assignment recommendations is a powerful yet simple way to prepare your devices for provisioning. This procedure provides the prestaging steps that accept all system recommendations. To prestage devices and make exceptions to the system recommendations, see Discovering and Assigning N-PE Devices with Exceptions.

Prestaging has two parts:

1. Discovering Device Roles
2. Assigning Device Roles

Discovering Device Roles

To discover the roles of devices found during element discovery, follow these steps:

1. In the Ethernet Activator task ribbon, select the Prestage Devices workspace icon.
2. In the task ribbon, select the Manage Device Roles task icon.
3. In the task ribbon, select the Discover Roles task icon.

   The Role Discovery Status window shows the discovery of unassigned devices found in the database, as shown in the following example:

   

   In the graph portion of the Role Discovery Status window, the Total column shows the total number of devices under Junos Space management. At the start of the discovery process, the Discovered column shows the same number as the Total column. As discovery progresses, the Ethernet Activator software identifies devices as N-PE type, and moves them from the Discovered column to the PE column. On completion, the PE column shows the number of devices that the Ethernet Activator role discovery rules identify as N-PE devices, and the Discovered bar indicates devices for which the Ethernet Activator software was unable to determine the appropriate role.

4. To view the devices for which the Ethernet Activator software recommends the PE role, click on the PE bar.

   The Assign Roles screen appears, as shown in the following example:

   

   The question mark on each icon indiactes that the device role has not yet been assigned.

Device role discovery is now complete. To assign device and interface roles, follow the steps in the next section, Assigning Device Roles.

Assigning Device Roles

If you need to exclude devices from role assignment, or you need to exclude interfaces from the list of interfaces that can be used as UNIs, use the procedures documented in Discovering and Assigning N-PE Devices with Exceptions.

To assign all discovered roles and interfaces, follow these steps:

1. In the Ethernet Activator task ribbon, select the Prestage Devices workspace icon.
2. In the task ribbon, select Manage Device Roles.
3. The Manage Device Roles screen appears and shows all devices with roles currently assigned.
4. In the task ribbon, select the Assign Roles task icon.
5. In the Assign Roles screen, click Multiple in the quick view pane and select all devices.
6. Click Assign NPE Role.
7. In the confirmation screen, click Assign.
8. To view the assignment status, in the Job Details screen, click the job ID of the assignment job.

The Manage Jobs screen shows the progress and status of the role assignment job. See Viewing Scheduled Jobs for details.

While the job is ongoing, you cannot make additional assignments from the Assign Roles screen. The Assign NPE Role action is dimmed to indicate you cannot select it.