Add a Network Implementation Plan

Click Browse to import a pre-created network implementation plan in JSON format. The values in the pre-created plan are automatically populated in the Add Network Implementation Plan page.

Click the Download this form into JSON file link to download and save the profile in its current state (for example, when you want to save the current configured values for later reference or for maintaining a record).

If you are creating a plan, enter a name for the plan.

The plan name can contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, and 0-9) and some special characters [period (.) and hyphen (-)], and cannot exceed 64 characters.

If you are editing a plan, the name is already populated and cannot be edited.

For example: plan-for-pe.

Enter a description for the plan.

Select one or more device profiles to be used in the plan. You can view only those device profiles that you associate with the plan while creating the profile. If you are editing an automatically generated implementation plan, the default interface and device profiles are already populated.

Configurations in the default device profile are common to all devices and applied to all the devices included in the plan.

Alternatively, click the Add new device profile link to create a device profile to be used as the default device profile. See Add a Device Profile.

Select one or more interface profiles to be used in the plan. You can view only those interface profiles that you associate with the plan while creating the profile.

The configurations in the default interface profile are common to all interfaces and applied to all the interfaces configured in the plan.

Alternatively, click the Add new interface profile link to create an interface profile to be used as the default interface profile. See Add an Interface Profile.

Select one or more port profiles to be used in the plan. You can view only those port profiles that you associate with the plan while creating the profile.

The configurations in the default port profile are committed on aggregated Ethernet interfaces that are included in the plan. Alternatively, click the Add new port profile link to create a port profile that can be used as the default port profile. See Add a Port Profile.

Add all devices that you want to configure while the device is onboarded to Routing Director. The plan can also be used to manage the configuration of the devices after the devices are onboarded. You can also edit and delete the devices added to the plan from here.

To add devices:

• Click the Add (+) icon to add devices to the plan. The Add Devices wizard appears that helps you configure the device, the device's interfaces, and add the chassis components for monitoring health. See Table 2 for adding devices.

• Click the Import Devices button and select the devices to be added to the network implementation plan from the List of Devices page.

Add links between the devices added to the plan.

Click the Add (+) to add links to other devices. The Add Link page appears from where you can configure the links.

You can also edit and delete the links configured between devices included in the plan from here.

See Table 4.

Displays a summary of the onboarding plan. Click the Edit link to edit the general information or the links added to the plan.

Enter a name for the device. Routing Director uses this name internally.

The name can contain alphanumeric characters and some special characters [hyphen (-) and underscore (_)]. The name cannot exceed 64 characters.

Alternatively, enter the hostname of the device and click the Search icon to populate the device values from the network inventory on this page.

For example, Singapore-ACX-05.

Enter a hostname for the device.

The name can contain alphanumeric characters and some special characters [hyphen (-) and underscore (_)]. The hostname cannot exceed 64 characters.

If you do not enter a hostname, Name is used as the hostname.

For example, Singapore-ACX-05.

Enter an IPv4 loopback address for the device in the dotted decimal notation format. For example, 10.10.10.1.

The value that you enter here overrides the value that is configured in a device profile.

For example, 127.0.0.1.

IPv6 Loopback

Enter an IPv6 loopback address for the device. For example, 2001:db8:4136:e378:8000:63bf:3fff:fdd2.

The value that you enter here overrides the value that is configured in a device profile.

For example, 2001:db8::1.

Select the site where you want to install the device.

Alternatively, if you have permissions to add a site, you can view the Add new site link next to the Site drop-down list. Click the link and add a new site on the Create Site page. See Add Sites.

Enter the serial number of the device that you want to associate with the plan.

The serial number will be used to map the device to this profile when it is added to the inventory (during adoption which is described later), and the onboarding process is started.

For example, XXXXXXXXXXXX.

Select the vendor of the device.

For example, Juniper Networks

Select the model of the device from the drop-down list.

For a list of supported devices, see Supported Junos OS Releases, Devices, and Browsers.

For example, ACX7024.

Select the software image to be installed on the device during onboarding from the drop-down list.

All software images that are uploaded to Routing Director are listed here.

For example, junos-evo-install-media-usb-acx-f-x86-64-25.2R1.8-EVO.img

Select one or more device profiles to be applied to the device from the drop-down list. The configurations in the device profiles are committed on the device in the order in which the profiles are added to the plan.

Configurations present in both the default device profile and the specific profiles that you enter here are committed on the device. However, for configurations that are present in both the specific device profiles and the default device profile, the values in the specific device profiles override the configuration in the default device profile.

Enter the time duration in minutes that the field technician can take to install the device, add pluggables, and connect cables. Routing Director checks the health of the device as soon as it pushes the configurations on the device. However, If the device installation is not complete by then, Routing Director notifies the device as unhealthy and executes the next task. For example, 30 minutes.

To prevent reporting the device as unhealthy before installation is complete, Routing Director retries the device health checks every minute. The device health is checked until the device is detected as healthy or for the duration that you enter here, whichever is earlier.

Default: 20 minutes

Range: 0 through 20

Enter instructions or any additional information that you want to provide to a field technician who is onboarding the device. The field technician can view the instructions that you enter here.

Placement Resources

Enable or disable (default) allocating resources for provisioning services on the device.

Bandwidth*

Enter the bandwidth (in Mbps) to be reserved on the device for service provisioning.

For example, 100Mbps.

MAC Address

Enter the maximum number of MAC addresses to be assigned to the device for service provisioning.

For example, 20.

Routes

Enter the maximum number of routes addresses to be assigned to the device for service provisioning.

For example, 50.

IRBs

Enable or disable (default) integrated routing and bridging (IRB) interfaces on a PE device.

Start*

Enter the starting IRB for the range of IRB IDs to which the PE interface connects.

Enter a value in the range 1 through 65535.

For example, if 200 is the starting VLAN ID, the first VLAN supported by the PE interface has a VLAN ID of 200.

Size*

Enter the number or range of IRB IDs available for a PE device. You can define a range using a starting ID and the number of IRBs required.

Enter a value in the range 1 through 65535.

Displays the device's chassis view. You can perform the following tasks from here:

• View the ports (interfaces) on the device chassis in the displayed chassis image.

• Add and define the configuration of all the logical ports that you want to configure during device onboarding.

  To add a logical port:

  1. Click the Add Default Interfaces to populate the interfaces in the device.

  2. Click a port that you want to configure and click the Edit icon (pen).

  Alternatively, click the Add (+) icon to specify and configure a port.

  See Configure Port.

  Note:

  In this release, Interfaces are populated for the ACX7024 devices only.

• Add and define the configuration of all aggregated Ethernet interfaces that you want to configure during device onboarding.

  To add and define an aggregated Ethernet interface, click Add icon to specify and configure the port. See Table 3.

  Note:

  To migrate a service from an earlier release of Routing Director to a later release, services using ports with aggregated Ethernet interfaces must add the port in the network implementation plan with its access parameters configured. The access parameters must not have VLAN configuration.

• Enter the number of LAGs that can be configured on the device (in the Count field under Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Settings). The maximum number of LAGs supported on a device depends on the device type.

• Edit, or delete the ports that you added.

• Zoom in and zoom out the chassis view.

Configure Port

Enter a name for the interface as follows:

• Use the type-fpc/pic/port.logical format to enter the name with a logical unit. For example, et-0/0/0.0.

• Use fpc/pic/port[:channel].logical format to enter the name for a channelized interface. For example, t3-0/0/0:1.0.

• Use the management interface name of the device for management interfaces. For example, re0:mgmt-0.0.

• Use the aggregated Ethernet interface name for aggregated interfaces. For example, ae0, ae1, and ae2.

For ports in the ACX7204 devices, this field is auto-populated if you select a port to be configured in the Physical Ports tab.

Enter a description for the interface.

Enter the IPv4 address (in dotted decimal notation) with the subnet mask for the interface. For example, 10.10.10.10/24.

If you have disabled automatic IP address assignment in the interface profiles assigned to the interface, you can assign the IPv4 address for the interface here.

IPv6 Address/Subnet Mask

Enter the IPv6 address with the subnet mask for the interface. For example, 2001:db8:4136:e378:8000:63bf:3fff:fdd2/48

If you have disabled automatic IP address assignment in the interface profiles assigned to the interface, you can assign the IPv6 address for the interface here.

Select one or more interface profiles to be applied to the interface from the drop-down list. The configurations in the device profiles are committed on the device in the order in which the profiles are added to the plan.

Configurations present in both the default interface profile and the specific profiles that you enter here are committed on the device. However, for configurations that are present in both the specific interface profiles and the default interface profile, the values in the specific interface profiles override the configuration in the default interface profile.

Enter the type of pluggable to use in the port; for example, QOD-400G-FR4.

A field technician can view the information that you enter here during device onboarding.

Enter instructions to connect cables to the interfaces.

A field technician can view and use this information that you enter here to connect cables to interfaces during device onboarding. We recommend that you use specific instructions that are known to the field technician, such as a reference number of the cable.

Access Parameters

Click the add (+) icon above the Access Parameters table.

The Add Access Parameter page appears.

Name*

Enter a reference name for the CE facing interface.

Tag Type

Select dot1q, qinq, or untagged as the VLAN tag from the Tag Type drop-down list.

The default tag type is untagged.

dot1q Tag Type

A Dot1q interface transmits and receives Ethernet frames with a single VLAN tag.

When you select dot1q from the Tag Type drop-down, the VLANs section appears. Enter VLAN details by referring to the following list:

• Start*—Enter the starting VLAN ID for the range of VLANs from the CE device that the PE interface supports.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

  For example, if 200 is the starting VLAN ID, the first VLAN supported by the PE interface has a VLAN ID of 200.

• Size*—Enter the range of VLANs from the CE device that the PE interface supports.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

qinq Tag Type

A Q-in-Q interface transmits and receives frames with double VLAN tags.

When you select qinq from the Tag Type drop-down, the Inner VLANs and Outer VLANs sections appear. Enter Inner VLANs and Outer VLANs details by referring to the following list:

Enter Inner VLANs details:

• Start*—Enter the starting VLAN ID for the range of inner VLANs.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

  For example, if 200 is the starting inner VLAN ID, the first inner VLAN supported by PE device has a VLAN ID of 200.

• Size*—Enter the range for inner VLANs.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

Enter Outer VLANs details:

• Start*—Enter the starting VLAN ID for the range of outer VLANs.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

  For example, if 200 is the starting outer VLAN ID, the first outer VLAN supported by PE device has a VLAN ID of 200.

• Size*—Enter the range for outer VLANs.

  Enter a value in the range 1 through 4094.

untagged Tag Type

Select untagged tag type to assign no VLANs to the interface.

An untagged interface receives and sends Ethernet frames without VLAN tags.

Chassis

Enter the number of power supply modules (PSMs) in the device.

This information is used for collecting analytics and health data from the PSMs.

For example, 2.

Enter the number of fans in the device.

This information is used for collecting analytics and health data from the fans.

For example, 6

Enter the number of line cards in the device.

This information is used for collecting analytics and health data from the line cards.

Enter the number of pluggables in the device.

This information is used for collecting analytics and health data from the pluggables.

Name

Enter a name for the aggregated Ethernet interface. For example, ae1, ae3.

Description

Enter a description of the interface. For example, Link to PE router.

MTU

Enter the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the aggregated Ethernet interface in bytes. For example, 1514 bytes.

The MTU range depends on the device. Refer to the device documentation for the exact range.

Range: 128 through 65,535

Tagging

Select a tagging option for the aggregated Ethernet interface:

• Tagged – You can configure VLANs on the interface.

  Define the type of tagging for the port under Access Parameters.

• Untagged – You cannot configure VLAN on the interface.

Port Profiles

Select one or more port profiles to be assigned to the aggregated Ethernet interface. Click Add new port profile to configure a new port profile and assign it to the interface.

LAG Parameters

Minimum Links

Enter the minimum number of links that can be configured on the aggregated Ethernet interface. For example, 10.

Member Link

Name

Enter a name for the physical interfaces (Ethernet interfaces and channelized interfaces) that are a part of the aggregated Ethernet interface, For example, ge-1/0/0, ge-1/0/1. t3-0/0/0:1.2

Access Parameters

Add the range of VLANs and the number of VLANs for service provisioning on the aggregated Ethernet interface. If you assign multiple VLANs, you can configure multiple services on the LAG. If you do not configure a VLAN, you can configure a single service on the LAG.

To use an existing manually configured aggregated Ethernet interface on a device as an access interface for a service, define the interface in the network implementation plan by including VLAN in the interface's access parameters.

Name*

Enter a reference name for the CE facing interface.

Tag Type

Select the type of VLAN tagging to be used on the aggregated Ethernet interface:

• Untagged

• dot1q
• qinq

If you select dot1q tag type, enter the VLAN starting ID and VLAN size.

If you select qinq tag type, enter the VLAN starting ID and VLAN size for outer (service) VLAN and inner (customer) VLAN.

VLANs

Start*

Enter the starting VLAN ID for the range of VLAN IDs that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a value of 10 indicates that the range of VLAN IDs assigned to the interface starts from 10.

Size*

Enter the size of the VLAN range that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a size of five with starting VLAN ID as 10 indicates that the VLAN IDs 10 through 14 are assigned to the interface.

Range: 1 through 4094

q-in-q

Inner VLANs

Start*

Enter the range of inner VLAN IDs (customer VLAN IDs) that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a size of five with starting inner VLAN ID as 15, indicates that the inner VLAN IDs 15 through 19 are assigned to the interface.

Size*

Enter the starting outer VLAN ID (service VLAN ID) for the range of outer VLAN IDs that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a value of 25 indicates that the range of outer VLAN IDs assigned to this interface starts from 25.

Outer VLANs

Enter the starting outer VLAN ID (service VLAN ID) for the range of outer VLAN IDs that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a value of 25 indicates that the range of outer VLAN IDs assigned to this interface starts from 25.

Enter the range of outer VLAN IDs (service VLAN IDs) that will be assigned to the interface.

For example, a size of five with starting outer VLAN ID as 25, indicates that the outer VLAN IDs 25 through 29 are assigned to the interface.

Enter a name for the link.

The name can contain alphanumeric characters and some special characters [hyphen (-), underscore (_), period (.), and colon (:)] and cannot exceed 64 characters.

You must enter the link name if you want to configure links between multiple devices in the same subnet.

For example, singapore-bogota-link1

Select a source device to originate the link.

For example, Singapore-ACX-05.

Displays the site where the device that originates the link is installed.

For example, Singapore

Select the interface on the source device from which the link originates.

For example, et-0/0/12.0.

Enter instructions for the link. For example, the cables to be used to connect the device to the network or another device.

Select the destination device to terminate the link.

You need not select a destination device if you want to connect to multiple devices from the same source device and interface.

For example, Bogota-MX-204.

Displays the site where the destination device that terminates the link is installed.

For example, Bogota.

Select an interface on the destination device at which the link terminates.

For example, xe-0/1/1.0

Enter instructions for the link. For example, the cables to be used to connect the device to the network or another device.