Ethernet Activator

New Features

The Ethernet Activator application supports the following new features in Release 1.2 of Junos Space:

• Hub and spoke services support—Enables the design, provisioning, and management of point-to-multipoint Ethernet services, implemented as virtual private LAN services (VPLS). These services use BGP switching in the network core. Each customer site is configured as either a hub or a spoke in the service. Hub sites communicate with all other customer sites in the VPN. Spoke sites communicate only with hub sites. Spoke or hub customer sites can be added with ease. The Junos software in the devices uses the route targets and route distinguishers provided automatically by the Junos Space software for autodiscovery to establish the correct secure connectivity among provider-edge routers quickly and efficiently.
• Enhanced functional audit—Provides checking of the data plane in addition to the control plane checking performed in previous releases. The display of the functional audit results is enhanced to provide control plane and data plane checking results for each link in the service.

Resolved Issues

The following issues have been resolved since the Junos Space 1.1 release:

• The Manage Device Roles screen allows you to select the Unassign NPE Role action for a device even when the NPE role assignment job has not finished yet for that device. The following error message is generated when trying to unassign such a device: “unassign when role assignment is still running for that device.” This issue occurs only when the device has many services already deployed. [PR/495714]
• The Search option is not implemented in Prestaging Rules page. [PR/495750]

Known Issues

The Junos Space 1.2 release includes the following known issues:

• For VPLS services, data plane validation does not work for devices running Junos 9.2 or Junos 9.3 because these versions of Junos software do not support this feature. If any device in the service runs one of these versions of Junos software, a functional audit returns an error message and the audit does not finish. [PR/496346]