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Release Notes: Juniper Routing Director Release 2.6.0

Software Highlights

Device Life-Cycle Management

  • Onboard Nokia 7750 SR-s devices and configure the devices by using configuration templates.

  • Assign tags to devices and interfaces using profiles.

  • Configure Test Agent installation during device onboarding.

  • Configure a network implementation plan for a specific use case.

Observability

  • Group custom rules.

  • View IGP anomalies.

  • Colour classification in IGP Heatmap.

  • Monitor device health and temperature using AI-ML.

  • Obtain troubleshooting information using Routing Director chatbot.

  • Detect blackholes on PTX10008 devices using AI-ML.

Trust

  • Create, customize, and delete a benchmark document.

Service Orchestration

  • Migrate brownfield services to Routing Director.

  • Stitch services in Routing Director.

  • Configure BGP color community to automate steering of L3VPN traffic.

  • Support for VLAN-based and VLAN-aware EVPN service types.

  • Enable an EVPN service to span multiple device platforms.

  • Configure Q-in-Q tunneling for EVPN-VPWS and L2 circuit services.

Network Optimization

  • Configurable Interface delay type.

  • Set retention policies and database cleanup frequency.

  • View historical data for Segment Routing (SR) LSPs.

  • Reroute Tunnels based on tunnel delay constraints.

  • Enable LSP bandwidth sizing for RSVP and SR LSPs.

  • Network optimization support for Cisco devices running IOS-XR.

Planner

  • Import offline network models from a different controller application.

  • View Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLGs) in your offline network.

  • View and configure segment routing (SR) tunnels in offline network models.

  • What-if failure simulation for network impact analysis.

Active Assurance

  • Support for Path Trace, RPM RFC 2544, and Packet Capture plug-ins.

  • Interactive topology visualization for path trace analysis.

  • Analyze Packet Capture results.

  • View a consolidated list of all Measurements on the Measurements Explorer page.

  • Centralized plug-in inventory management.

Administration

  • Accountability in access control profiles.

  • Automatically back up configuration changes.

  • Execute Shell commands on devices from Routing Director GUI.

  • Onboard and manage non-Juniper devices using NETCONF.

  • Use existing RADIUS configuration on a device for authentication during onboarding.

  • Check cluster health from the Routing Director GUI.

Installation and Upgrade

  • Install a three-node cluster.

  • Upgrade Routing Director using the .img file.