New and Changed Features

Running Test Agents on ACX7024 (Ultron)

This release adds the ability to install and run Test Agent Applications on the Juniper ACX7024 (Ultron) platform.

This feature requires Junos OS 22.4R1-EVO or later.

The Test Agent runs in Junos OS Evolved as a third-party container. The following active assurance measurement tasks are supported:

• UDP
• TCP
• HTTP
• DNS
• Ping
• Path trace
• IPTV
• OTT video
• System monitoring see below

Key-value tagging

Previously, Paragon Active Assurance has offered simple, "one-dimensional" tags for labeling Test Agents and certain other items. This release replaces tags with more sophisticated key-value tagging, where you can define multiple keys, each of which can take an arbitrary value. For example, you may want to define a key "country", with country names as values, and another key "operator".

Please note that this feature is not fully backward compatible with the Control Center REST API:

• Tags are now returned as a dictionary instead of a list of strings.

• Tags are now set directly in each taggable resource (such as a Test Agent). The special resource for tag assignment (/tags/assign/) is no longer used.

System monitoring task

This task retrieves details on the server on which it is running, keeping track of (among other things) memory, CPU and disk usage.

System monitoring is implemented as a dynamic plugin which is not delivered with Paragon Active Assurance but is uploaded separately to Control Center.

Support for UEFI boot

Test Agents now support UEFI boot in addition to legacy boot.