Abhi Shamsundar, Product Management, AIDE, Juniper Networks

Demo - Day 2 Operations with Two New Juniper Marvis Actions

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The still image shows presenter Abhi Shamsundar in the bottom left corner of the screen. The first slide is shown, featuring the title “Wired Stuck Client.” There is a picture of an EX switch with numerous ports. Two points are made: Number one: Mist AI determines a client in a bad state. Number two: Future: power cycle the port to bring it back.

Explained: Marvis’s two handy new Actions.

Two new features have been added to Marvis, the industry's first and only virtual network assistant driven by Mist AI™.  Watch this short demo video to learn about these handy new features and to discover how they further enhance the customer experience. They are, after all,  just a small part of the many amazing things Marvis can do

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You’ll learn

  • Two use cases that aptly illustrate the new Mist AI Actions 

  • How the new Actions appear in the Marvis network assistant dashboard, making your job easier 

Who is this for?

Network Professionals Business Leaders

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Abhi Shamsundar
Product Management, AIDE, Juniper Networks

Transcript

0:08 right we want to do showcase some pieces

0:11 of marvelous actions uh a quick

0:14 introduction on marvelous actions itself

0:16 marvelous actions are are what we call

0:19 as cup of coffee view

0:21 um

0:22 to the world of saying uh how is your

0:26 network doing and are there actionable

0:28 things across your thousands of switches

0:30 that you can do as an administrator

0:32 I will show the dashboard uh just a

0:35 couple of slides uh to speak about the

0:37 two new marvelous actions that's been

0:39 introduced

0:39 so one of our Focus areas as we spoke to

0:42 our customers saying you know you're

0:43 focusing so much on uh the client side

0:45 of the house which is what we want we

0:47 want to see the client experience

0:49 but the most important use case that are

0:51 out there uh is you know some of these

0:53 applications that run on sometimes Poe

0:56 they just get stuck uh it happens and

0:59 usually the solution to it is just you

1:02 know bounce them and they come back come

1:03 back right back up the solution isn't

1:06 usually the same simplistic way I

1:08 defined it let's say for example there's

1:11 a camera and the camera is connected to

1:13 your switch and these cameras are

1:16 usually done they usually look at a ping

1:18 Loop to see whether they're pingable or

1:20 not and at some point a camera goes away

1:22 now the application theme which is the

1:25 camera team has to open a ticket with

1:28 the network team to say go as a first

1:30 order of defense let's just bounce the

1:31 port and see if it comes back up

1:34 is it uh an easy process not necessarily

1:37 because you have to open a ticket and

1:38 the ticket will be served in the order

1:39 of operations you're looking at camera

1:41 being down anywhere between an hour to

1:43 eight hours or however long it takes for

1:45 the network team to actually bounce the

1:47 port unless you have somebody on site to

1:49 just go on plug and plug

1:51 simple example of what we are driving

1:54 towards

1:55 can we as a system we get Telemetry all

1:58 the time from each every single port and

2:00 we as a system identify that this is a

2:03 camera first up and there are seven

2:05 other cameras on the same switch and 60

2:07 other cameras on the same side and they

2:09 are all working

2:10 and this same camera seasonality wise

2:13 was also working yesterday last week all

2:16 of these elements considered if that is

2:19 the case if you're true positive

2:21 can we actually bounce the port for you

2:23 instead of going through this cycle of

2:26 network theme application theme ticket

2:28 and bounce support

2:30 it's a simple use case it's a lot of

2:33 algorithms that run to meet all the

2:35 requirements that I mentioned right

2:37 above and that's that's where we're

2:39 getting into this point saying today

2:40 we're able to identify the court and we

2:43 will tell you that these are the ports

2:44 tomorrow if you give us permission we

2:47 will bounce the port for you

2:49 a simple use case but a whole lot of

2:52 backend that goes into making this

2:54 action possible so that's the uh the

2:57 temporary name for it is wired stock

2:59 client I think we should improve come up

3:01 with a smarter name uh but we will get

3:03 to that

3:04 so that's the camera use case another

3:07 use case that we have come about is uh

3:10 you know devices that are constantly

3:11 stuck at high CPU

3:13 so super simple all of your nms's in the

3:16 world can probably tell you your CPU is

3:19 high what are you doing here right one

3:22 obviously we are able to tell you

3:24 amongst the thousands of devices in your

3:25 network which are consistently stuck

3:27 here are the people who are the switches

3:29 that that you would want to pay

3:30 attention to that's one that probably

3:32 your nms can do today

3:34 two we are telling you which are the top

3:37 three processes that are actually

3:39 causing this device to be in this state

3:41 that also tells you that

3:44 it all comes back to the Mist Cloud how

3:47 can we use this data to say there is

3:49 something common amongst all of this how

3:52 can we help you implement best practices

3:54 for example on your switches

3:56 if you are constantly addressing your

3:59 where something called this routing

4:00 engine that helps route packets makes

4:02 decisions all of that is in the software

4:04 it's consumes CPU Cycles

4:06 if you want to protect your routing

4:09 engine it is Juno's best practice to

4:11 always enable protection of rotting

4:12 engine where you say I will only answer

4:14 packets from these destinations my bgp

4:17 peer somebody who's doing an SNMP query

4:20 uh whatever those or SSH from five or

4:23 six clients which are trusted

4:26 but rest of them if there's an hsrp

4:28 packet I'm just an L2 device I don't

4:30 want to care about it I would I always

4:31 multicast for example ospf multicast if

4:34 you know or even any broadcast packet

4:36 that is there I don't want to just open

4:38 the packet drop it open the packet drop

4:40 it that's CPU Cycles can I save on that

4:42 that's protection of routing engine

4:44 another example that could be you know

4:47 us saying the there's a there are these

4:49 Optics that we certify but that you're

4:51 using other Optics in we from uh the

4:54 missing Universe perspective are able to

4:55 say whenever you're using these

4:57 uncertified Optics there's a problem

4:59 something for you to look at so there is

5:02 a lot of cloud angle that we are

5:04 bringing in to say we can help you if

5:07 there are devices that are stuck we can

5:08 help you provide suggestions to say you

5:11 know we're not only just telling you

5:12 high CPU go figure out you're telling

5:14 you how can we help make this better so

5:16 that's the intention of these two Marvis

5:19 actions

5:20 um I will introduce you introduce

5:22 marvelous actions to you uh this is the

5:24 cup of uh coffee view as we call call

5:26 them there's a whole bunch of actions

5:28 that are already in here

5:30 and again all of this is at the scale

5:34 of 50

5:36 000 60 000 ports one of our customers we

5:39 see uh 1.2 million ports

5:41 we see we have about 400 actions in

5:44 there the Juniper office

5:46 uh amongst the 52 000 ports they have

5:48 they run about 1200 switches all across

5:51 uh the the all of all of the offices

5:54 across the world uh we're talking about

5:56 close to 26 27 marvelous actions so we

5:59 are not killing you with you know things

6:01 that are just alerting we'd rather say

6:03 these are true positives that we are

6:05 super confident about and you can pay

6:07 attention and you can kill uh you can

6:09 take care of it for example bad cables

6:10 negotiation mismatches

6:13 um these are the two new uh ones that

6:15 we're talking about we said you know

6:17 there is uh stop for uh this is uh this

6:21 particular device uh what do you want to

6:23 do with it you could power cycle disable

6:25 the port and the second one is saying

6:28 you know there is a device that's stuck

6:30 at 100 perennially stuck at 100 and not

6:33 just a simple Spike these are again the

6:36 our intent is for us to say

6:38 from this dashboard to say if you look

6:40 at this every morning this should give

6:43 you a list of items that you can

6:45 immediately take care of because

6:46 obviously we can't fix a bad cable uh we

6:49 cannot uh you know uh you know add uh or

6:52 how do you deal with a port stack issue

6:54 how do you do with the CPU we'll give

6:56 you recommendations

6:57 then eventually if you trust us enough

7:00 say Auto uh bounce support for me we'll

7:03 get you there that's that's the

7:05 intention of as simple as they look

7:08 there's a lot of math course behind it

7:09 and also you know the power of cloud you

7:11 will bring in elements of saying

7:14 we have the ability to do this and Cloud

7:16 Source information to say this is best

7:18 practices you might it's good for you to

7:20 follow this

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