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What are the hardware and software requirements to install and run Paragon Insights?
What are the hardware requirements for the network devices, such as routers and switches?
What are the software requirements for the network devices, such as routers and switches?
What is the difference between Paragon Insights and AppFormix?
How do I monitor the status of the Paragon Insights application or container?
How do I verify all Paragon Insights components are running?
How can I check which version of Paragon Insights is running?
How can I change or recover the current Paragon Insights username or password?
Are there any prerequisites to configuring sensor precedence?
Paragon Insights Frequently Asked Questions
This topic includes our most frequently asked questions on Paragon Insights (formerly HealthBot). To learn more about the product, see our Paragon Insights User Guide.
What are the hardware and software requirements to install and run Paragon Insights?
For a complete list of hardware and software requirements, see Paragon Insights Installation Requirements.
A scaling tool, located at https://apps.juniper.net/hb-sizing/, is also available and provides more information on server configurations for a given use case.
What are the hardware requirements for the network devices, such as routers and switches?
The router and switch hardware requirements depend on the rules you are using. For example, if your rules are based on JTI sensors, then check the platform and release requirements on the gRPC support for the Junos Telemetry Interface page.
What are the software requirements for the network devices, such as routers and switches?
The router and switch software requirements depend on the data collection methods you are using. For a complete list of software requirements, see the Paragon Insights Installation Requirements.
What are the benefits of Paragon Insights ?
Paragon Insights provides several benefits, such as automated root cause analysis, greater network visibility, and open integration. For more information about how to use Paragon Insights and its benefits, see the Paragon Insights Overview.
What types of telemetry can Paragon Insights collect?
Paragon Insights integrates with various data collection methods, including Junos Telemetry Interface, NETCONF, and SNMP, to provide large volumes of time-sensitive telemetry data. For more information, see the Paragon Insights Overview.
What are rules and playbooks?
Paragon Insights uses rules and playbooks to extract the needed telemetry data from deployed network devices running Junos OS. A rule is a package of components, or blocks, needed to extract specific information from the network or from a device running Junos OS. Playbooks are the Paragon Insights element that are applied, or run, on your device groups or network groups. For detailed information, see Paragon Insights Concepts.
What is the difference between Paragon Insights and AppFormix?
AppFormix gives you a wide view across domains, whereas HealthBot provides a deep view of the network. They are completely complementary.
AppFormix enables operators to control and visualize how infrastructure resources are utilized by workloads, and plan adequate capacity to ensure application performance. Using AppFormix, operators of software-defined data centers have a toolset for visibility into operational performance and infrastructure resources.
Paragon Insights is a highly automated and programmable device-level diagnostics and network analytics tool that provides consistent and coherent operational intelligence across network deployments. Integrated with multiple data collection methods, Paragon Insights aggregates and correlates large volumes of time-sensitive telemetry data, providing a multidimensional and predictive view of the network.
How do I access the Paragon Insights Web UI?
Open a browser and go to https://machine-IP:8080, where machine-IP is the virtual IP address you entered, to connect to Healthbot services, during installation.
How do I monitor the status of the Paragon Insights application or container?
A dedicated service, healthbot_hbmon
, monitors the
state of the Paragon Insights container and triggers an alarm at predefined settings. Alarms can
be viewed in the Paragon Insights Web UI.
For more information, see Checking Paragon Insights Service Status.
How do I verify all Paragon Insights components are running?
Use the healthbot status
command to view all services
and their status. For example:
$ healthbot status Name of service Status --------------------------------------------- alerta Up api_server Up debugger Up gateway Up grafana Up hb_proxy_syslog Up hbmon Up influxdb_db Up iam Up license_client Up mgd Up postgres Up redis Up reports Up tsdb_shim Up
How can I check which version of Paragon Insights is running?
Use the healthbot version
command. For example:
$ healthbot version HealthBot 4.0.0
How can I change or recover the current Paragon Insights username or password?
Use the healthbot password-reset -u <user-name> [-p
password]
command. This procedure can be done while Paragon Insights is running.
For example:
$ sudo healthbot password-reset -u admin 👨💻 New password: 👨💻 Confirm password: ✅ Password for user with username: admin has been changed successfully
Are there any prerequisites to configuring sensor precedence?
Yes, before configuring sensor precedence, users must configure devices to retrieve vendor name, operating system, product, platform (product family in a series), and release/version details.