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Release Notes: Juniper Routing Director Release 2.8.0

Software Highlights

Device Life-Cycle Management
  • Device Support:

    • Basic device support (onboard devices, export device details, view audit logs, and upgrade software)—SRX4100, SRX4200, SRX4300, SRX4600, SRX4700, and EX4400 Virtual Chassis.

    • Full support (device observability, routing observability, service orchestration, active assurance, network optimization, and viewing topology weather map)—MX301.

  • Use management VRF to adopt brownfield Junos devices.

  • Support for gNMI dial-in connection for telemetry.

Observability

  • AI/ML-driven device health monitoring on additional platforms (PTX10004 and PTX10008).

  • Detect physical layer faults in Routing Director using AI/ML.

  • Increase KPI data retention.

  • Use Export Manager to stream data to external systems.

  • IGP anomaly alert generation.

  • View BGP route details.

Service Orchestration

  • Updated ESI configuration format in the L2 resource instance.

  • Configure custom local VPWS ID.

Network Optimization

  • Re-parse device collection.

  • Map display options on the Topology page.

  • Flexible metric selection for color legend.

  • Configure multiple autonomous systems per BGP-LS.

Planner

  • View offline topology changes.

  • Group working models using tags.

  • View reports with in the Topology page.

Active Assurance

  • Centralized view of Measurement reports.

  • Support for additional plug-ins (Cisco IP SLA Ping, Path MTU Discovery, and QoS Policy Profiling).

Installation and Upgrade

  • Install Juniper Routing Director on a single node.