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Release Notes: Juniper Routing Director Release 2.9.0

Software Highlights

Device Life-Cycle Management

  • Onboard PTX10002-60MR device and configure the devices by using configuration templates.

  • Enhanced network implementation plan page.

  • Enhanced interface modeling in network implementation plans.

  • Enable artificial-intelligence and machine-learning (AI-ML) use cases selectively on Juniper devices during onboarding.

  • Vendor-agnostic device management framework.

  • Bulk import brownfield Juniper devices to Routing Director.

Observability

  • Observability Recommendation Engine (ORE)

  • Enable AI operations and ORE selectively on devices.

  • Dynamic thresholds for BGP, RIB, and FIB KPIs.

  • Detect fabric queue drops and fabric destination errors using AI-ML

  • View predictive alerts for FPC reset

  • Custom KPI collection for Nokia devices

  • Stream Active Assurance metrics to an external Kafka system.

LLM Connector

  • LLM Connector enhancements.

  • Use Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to query Routing Director.

Service Orchestration

  • Save a candidate version of a service instance before provisioning.

  • Define custom descriptions for L2VPN and L3VPN service fields.

  • Configure an IRB interface for L3VPN services

  • Enable VLAN mapping and C-VLAN preservation for Layer 2 services.

Network Optimization

  • Support for container Label-Switched Paths (LSPs).

  • Enable SID compression in SR-MPLS tunnels to reduce the label stack.

  • View historical data for packet loss

  • Reroute LSPs based on packet loss violation

  • Filter nodes using topology filter

Planner

  • Speed up exhaustive failure simulations using elastic simulation optimization.

  • Analyze network capacity with Capacity Viewer.

  • Edit offline network models.

  • Implement tunnel diversity in offline network models.

  • Configure Segment Routing (SR) protocol for links.

Active Assurance

  • Support for additional plug-ins (DSCP Port Mapping, DSCP Remapping, VoIP, and RFC 6349 TCP Throughput).

  • Manual installation of Test Agent Appliance on NFX150.

  • Restore or permanently delete Test Agents.

  • Schedule Tests at defined intervals.

  • View intermediate hop details for Pathtrace Streams.

Administration

  • Reuse ABAC policies across access control profiles.

  • Enforce password policy.

  • Bulk upload sites to Routing Director.

Installation and Upgrade

  • Deploy Routing Director on AWS.

  • Upgraded base OS on the cluster VMs.