Adopt Apstra Edge in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services
Apstra Edge is a hardware-agnostic virtual device that runs within a container in the data center. Apstra Edge functions as a proxy device in an Apstra-managed data center. It receives event and anomaly information from Juniper Apstra, Apstra Flow Server, and vCenter server, and forwards that data to Juniper Apstra Cloud Services.
To enable Apstra Edge to send event information and flow data to Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, you need to register Apstra Edge in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services by adopting it. To receive flow data from Apstra, you must configure Flow Server Details. To receive information about virtualized environments, you must configure vCenter Details. Once the edge is successfully registered, a registration ID is generated for the edge. This registration ID must be configured in Apstra Edge in the Apstra-managed data center.
To set up the edge in Apstra, you need to initialize the docker container and then configure the registration ID that Juniper Apstra Cloud Services generated for the edge. During the registration process, the edge retrieves the organization ID, secret, and the device ID. Once registration is completed, the edge can communicate with Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and Juniper Apstra Cloud Services starts receiving information from Apstra Edge.
Apstra Edge uses the edge registration ID that is generated by Juniper Apstra Cloud Services to retrieve unique organization ID, secret, and device ID during edge installation. These IDs must be stored securely as they cannot be retrieved after the initial setup is completed.
The docker container on which the edge runs can be installed anywhere in the data center - either on the same virtual machine (VM) on which Apstra is running or on a different VM. If edge is installed on the same VM as Apstra is installed, you need to take care during upgrades to ensure that the edge installation is not removed.
After the edge is initialized and configured, the status of the edge will be displayed in Juniper Apstra Cloud Services as Registered. The Cloud Connectivity status indicates that the edge is connected with the cloud and Apstra Connectivity status indicates that the edge is connected with Apstra Controller. That is, you can monitor the status of connectivity between Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and Apstra Edge, and between Apstra Edge and Apstra from Juniper Apstra Cloud Services UI without having to access Apstra.
To adopt Apstra Edge: