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Step 1: Begin

This guide walks you through the simple steps that you should complete to set up Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and monitor data center events from a data center managed by Juniper Apstra.

Juniper Apstra Cloud Services monitors data centers in real-time, and notifies administrators when there is a network event. It analyzes events and provides actionable recommendations. Juniper Apstra Cloud Services also provides a conversational interface that supports natural language processing (NLP), which administrators can use to search for feature or troubleshooting information within Juniper Apstra documentation.

Create Juniper Apstra Cloud Services Account

To access Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, you must create an account in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and activate your account. You can create an account in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services in one of the following ways:

  • Access the Juniper Apstra Cloud Services portal at https://dc.ai.juniper.net, create an account, and create your organization.

  • Use the invite received from an administrator in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services to join an organization.

To access Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and create an account:

  1. Access Juniper Apstra Cloud Services at https://dc.ai.juniper.net from a web browser.

  2. Click Create Account on the Juniper Apstra Cloud Services page.

  3. On the My Account page, type your first name, last name, e-mail address, and password, and click Create Account.

    The password can contain up to 32 characters, including special characters, based on the password policy of the organization.

    Juniper Apstra Cloud Services sends you a confirmation e-mail to validate the account.

  4. In the verification e-mail that you receive, click Validate Me.

    The My Account page appears.

  5. Click Create Organization.

    The Create organization page appears.

  6. Enter a unique name for your organization and click Create.

    The New Account page appears displaying the organization that you created.

  7. Select the organization you created.

    You have successfully logged in to your organization in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services.

To access Juniper Apstra Cloud Services using the invite from an administrator:

  1. Click Access organization-name in the e-mail body of the invite that you received.

    The Invite to Organization page appears.

  2. Click Register to Accept.

    The My Account page appears.

  3. Enter your first name, last name, e-mail address, and the password that you'll use to access your account.

    The password can contain up to 32 characters, including special characters, based on the password policy of the organization.

  4. Click Create Account.

  5. In the verification e-mail that you received, click Validate Me.

    The My Account page appears.

  6. Select the organization for which you received the invite.

    You can access the organization in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services. The tasks you can perform in this organization depends on the role assigned to you.

By default, the first user who creates an account and the organization has the superuser privileges in that organization. The Super User can perform functions such as create organization, add sites, add users to various roles, and so on. For more information about roles, see Predefined User Roles Overview

Configure Organization Settings

A super user in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services can configure organization settings and perform the following tasks:

  • View organization name and organization ID and modify the organization name.

  • Enable or disable the password policy for the organization and modify the password policy when the password policy is enabled.

  • Modify the session timeout policy for the organization.

  • Add, modify, and delete identity providers.

  • Add, modify, and delete custom roles.

  • Configure webhooks for the organization.

  • Add Juniper account to link Juniper Networks devices to the organization.

  • Generate, edit, and delete API tokens for various roles in the organization.

For detailed information and the steps to configure organization settings, see Manage Organization Settings.

Add Users to Administrator Roles

To add users to an organization, you must be a user with the Super User privileges. You add a user by sending them an invite from Juniper Apstra Cloud Services. When you send an invite, you can assign a role to the user depending on the function they need to perform in the organization.

To add user to the organization:

  1. Click Organization > Administrators.
  2. On the Administrators page, click Invite Administrators.
  3. In the Administrators :New Invitation page, enter the user details such as e-mail address, first name and last name, and the role that the user should perform in the organization. For more information about roles in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, see Predefined User Roles Overview.
    The first name and the last name can be up to 64 characters each.
  4. Click Invite.
    An e-mail invite is sent to the user and the Administrators page displays the status of the user as Invited.
  5. (Optional) Repeat the above steps to add more users to the organization.