Juniper Data Center Assurance Overview

Obtaining real-time visibility into the functioning of the data center is critical to providing an unmatched user experience. It is important that administrators have the ability to resolve data center events and anomalies proactively, in the same way as administrators resolve campus network events using Mist.

For this, administrators should have visibility into the operations of the data center in real-time. The Juniper Data Center Assurance (DC Assurance) application, which can receive, process, and perform root cause analysis of network events from a data center managed by Apstra Data Center Director, can enable network administrators to proactively respond to data center events ensuring that users' application experience remains unaffected.

Juniper Data Center Assurance is a SaaS-based Day 2 observability platform for data centers that are managed using Apstra Data Center Director. By utilizing the AIOps capability of Marvis, Juniper Data Center Assurance analyzes the events information received from the data center managed by Apstra Data Center Director and displays them in Marvis Actions view along with recommended actions to resolve those events.

Juniper Data Center Assurance runs as an independent application in the cloud, receiving and analyzing events information from Apstra. You can also integrate Juniper Data Center Assurance with Mist. When integrated with Mist, you can view the total number of data center events in the Data Center/Application category in Marvis Actions along with other event types for the campus and branch networks. You can then access Juniper Data Center Assurance and view more detailed information about those data center events in Marvis Actions by clicking the Data Center Actions event type under Data Center/Application. This way, network administrators get complete visibility into the operations of the entire enterprise network, comprising the campus, branch, and data center networks. Administrators can resolve network issues proactively, which in turn enables enterprises to improve operational efficiency and reduce operational cost and downtime.

The Application Awareness and the Impact Analysis features enable administrators to visualize how the data center network is being utilized by the hosted services. The Impact Analysis feature helps you visualize the impact of an anomaly on the hosted services and the clients utilizing the data center network. This enables faster resolution of network issues that impact end user experience.

The Service level expectations (SLE) feature sets a benchmark for the performance of a data center network. SLEs help network administrators understand whether the network is performing optimally and enable them to respond proactively to network events or performance issues.

Predictive Analytics is an ML-based feature that analyzes historical data points, predicts future metrics, and recognizes outliers in the forecasted data. The insights from this information helps the network admin prevent potential anomalies and device failures in the network.

Juniper Data Center Assurance also provides the generative AI-based Marvis Conversational Interface (CI). Marvis CI enables administrators to quickly search within product documentation for relevant troubleshooting information to resolve the events. With the help of Marvis CI, you can also try to resolve issues, reduce the need to create support tickets, and accelerate the time to resolution. You also have the option to provide feedback on your experience with the AI-assisted issue resolution process.