Course Overview
This four-day course introduces Paragon Automation applications including Paragon Pathfinder, Paragon Planner, and Paragon Insights. Through demonstrations and hands-on labs, students will learn the capabilities of these applications including WAN topology discovery, segment routing-traffic engineering (SR-TE) and RSVP- signaled label-switched path (LSP) management, Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) LSP discovery and provisioning, label-switched path (LSP) optimization, LSP calendaring, maintenance scheduling, point-to-multipoint (P2MP), LSP management, failure simulation, reporting, network modeling, path demand placement, hardware inventory collection, network telemetry collection, and closed-loop automation. Students learn to configure and monitor these features on a WAN consisting of vMX Series devices. This course is based on Junos version 22.4R1.10 and Paragon Automation version 23.1.
Who should attend
This course benefits individuals using Paragon Automation to automate the management of service provider or large enterprise MPLS networks
Prerequisites
- Understanding of the OSI Model
- Junos OS configuration experience—Introduction to the Junos Operating System (IJOS) course or equivalent
- Advanced MPLS knowledge—Junos MPLS Fundamentals (JMF) course or equivalent
Course Objectives
- Describe various WAN domains.
- Configure Paragon Pathfinder for initial use.
- Configure Paragon Pathfinder topology discovery.
- Provision various LSP types.
- Describe P2MP use cases.
- Perform LSP provisioning using Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF).
- Schedule network maintenance events.
- Use Paragon Insights to analyze network performance.
- Launch and use Paragon Planner.
- Perform network modeling.
- Perform network component failure simulation.
- Manage and optimize network demands.
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- WAN Automation
- Paragon Pathfinder Architecture
- Network Topology Discovery
- Using Paragon Automation
- Basic LSP Management
- Advanced LSP Management
- Segment Routing
- P2MP LSPs
- Maintenance Scheduling and NETCONF LSP Provisioning
- Paragon Insights
- Paragon Automation Troubleshooting
- Paragon Planner
- Network Modeling
- Network Demands and Failure Simulation
- Paragon Active Assurance Solution Components