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April 5, 2024

This section describes the features initially released in Juniper Mist Routing Assurance.

Onboard Routers

You can onboard routers to Juniper Mist Routing Assurance and monitor their performance by viewing the insights collected from the onboarded routers. You onboard a router by logging into the router's CLI and committing the outbound SSH configuration that Juniper Mist Routing Assurance provides. After a router is onboarded and assigned to a site, you can start monitoring it.

[See Onboard a Router.]

View Device Inventory Information

You can view detailed information about the inventory of your organization. The Inventory page:

  • Provides information about the devices in the organization.

    • Displays the total number of devices in the organization, grouped by their device models.

    • Click a router to view more information, such as the version of Junos OS installed on the router, connectivity status, router model, and so on.

    • Provides insights about performance of routing engines, PSUs, and fans, CPU and memory utilization, and so on.

  • The Installed Base tab provides information about:

    • Proactive bug notifications (PBN) that helps you identify potential bugs in the routers so that you can plan software or hardware upgrades. The PBN Tab displays the bugs in the routers and their severity. Click a bug to view detailed information about it.

    • EOL and EOS information for your organization's inventory.

    • Security Incident Resource Team (SIRT) advisories, which provide information about vulnerabilities that affect the routers in the network.

[See About the Inventory Page.]

Monitor the Routing Platform

You can monitor the performance of routers in an enterprise network from Juniper Mist Routing Assurance. Juniper Mist Routing Assurance provides actionable insights about the health of routers and alerts you when a router in the network needs attention (for example, when events like port down, port up, configuration change and so on occur). You can monitor the health of routers in the network in real-time by observing the following vital router parameters:

  • Performance of the routing engines

  • Status of channelized interfaces and breakout interfaces

  • Port status

  • CPU and memory utilization

  • Performance of cooling system components

  • Status of PSUs

You can correlate router events and quickly resolve routing anomalies such as packet drop or port failure.

[See About the Routers:Router Name Page.]

Insights about Routing Performance

As a network administrator, you can use the actionable insights presented in tables, charts, and time-series graphs on the Router Insights page to quickly respond to network events and anomalies.

You can view the global BGP summary for a RIB, and the BGP summary for the RIB of a particular BGP peer, from the Router Insights page.

You can:

  • View Router BGP Global Summary─You can view the BGP Peers graph, Routing Table Stats graph and the Global Peers Flaps graph, which show the BGP summary information for a specific routing table. The BGP summary includes graphical representation of the status of BGP peers, total number of prefixes, number of active prefixes, and BGP peer flaps.

  • View Router BGP Peer Summary─You can view the BGP peer information table which provides details such as BGP peer state, last flap event, last error, and so on. The Peer Flaps graph displays the peer flaps delta for a specific BGP peer. The Routing Table Peer Stats graph displays the prefixes in a routing table (Active, Received, Accepted, Advertised) for a specific peer.

You can use BGP summary to check if there are peering issues that need attention.

[See About the Router Insights Page.]

Monitor QoS

Juniper Mist Routing Assurance enables you to monitor Quality of Service by providing insights about traffic patterns and port errors by visualizing packet drops, which include aggregated random early detection (RED) drops and tail drops. The Router Interface Queues widget provides visualizations of traffic patterns and packet drops in the form of the following time-series graphs:

  • Queued or Transmitted Bytes Rate graph

  • Depth Percentage graph

  • Total Drop Packets Rate graph

  • Total Interfaces Drop Packets Rate graph

The interface queue graphs provide actionable insights into interface queue depth utilization over time. Network administrators can use these insights to resolve routing issues and prevent packet drops.

[See Router Insights.]

Router Utilities

You can access routers remotely using the tools provided in Router Utilities. Juniper Mist Routing Assurance offers testing tools such as Ping, Traceroute, Bounce Port, and so on, to test router connectivity.

You can use Router Utilities as a debugging tool to locate points of failure in your network. You can even inspect router ports and detect problems on the Ethernet cables on a given port, using the tools available in Router Utilities.

[See Router Utilities.]

Configure Alerts

Juniper Mist Routing Assurance notifies administrators about anomalies in the network by generating alerts. You can:

  • Specify alert types for which alerts should be generated.

  • Configure an alert template to display only those alerts that are tracked in the template.

  • Configure E-mail Recipient Settings to receive alert notifications in e-mail.

You can use these insights to respond to network events and anomalies in a proactive manner.

[See About the Alerts Page.]