- play_arrow Administration Portal
- play_arrow Introduction
- Unified Administration and Customer Portal Overview
- Administration Portal Overview
- Logging in to Administration Portal
- Switching the Tenant Scope
- Changing the Administration Portal Password
- Changing the Password on First Login
- Resetting the Password
- Setting Password Duration
- Extending the User Login Session
- Setting Up the Cloud CPE Centralized Deployment Model with Administration Portal
- Setting Up the Cloud CPE Distributed Deployment Model with Administration Portal
- play_arrow Managing Objects
- play_arrow Using the Dashboard
- play_arrow Monitoring Tenants, Sites, and Services
- play_arrow Monitoring Alerts
- play_arrow Monitoring SD-WAN Alert Definitions
- play_arrow Monitoring Device Events
- play_arrow Monitoring Tenants SLA Performance
- play_arrow Monitoring Jobs
- play_arrow Managing POPs
- About the POPs Page
- Creating a Single POP
- Importing Data for Multiple POPs
- Viewing the History of POP Data Imports
- Viewing the History of POP Data Deletions
- Managing a Single POP
- About the VIMs Page
- Creating a Cloud VIM
- About the EMS Page
- Creating an EMS
- Changing the Junos Space Virtual Appliance Password
- About the Routers Page
- Creating Devices
- Configuring Devices
- Adding a Hub Device
- View the History of Device Data Deletions
- play_arrow Managing Devices
- play_arrow Managing Device Templates
- play_arrow Managing Software Images
- play_arrow Configuring Network Services
- Network Services Overview
- About the Network Services Page
- About the Service Overview Page
- About the Service Instances Page
- Configuring VNF Properties
- Assigning a Service to Tenants
- Removing a Service from Tenants
- Viewing a Service Configuration
- vSRX VNF Configuration Settings
- LxCIPtable VNF Configuration Settings
- Cisco CSR-1000v VNF Configuration Settings
- Riverbed Steelhead VNF Configuration Settings
- Silver Peak VX VNF Configuration Settings
- Managing a Single Service
- play_arrow Configuring Application SLA Profiles
- play_arrow Configuring Application Signatures
- play_arrow Managing Tenants
- Tenant Overview
- About the Tenants Page
- Managing a Single Tenant
- About the Tenant Sites Page
- About the Tenant Services Page
- Importing Data for Multiple Tenants
- Adding a Single Tenant
- Adding Service Profiles
- Viewing the History of Imported Tenant Data
- Viewing the History of Deleted Tenant Data
- Allocating Network Services to a Tenant
- play_arrow Configuring MSP Users
- play_arrow Configuring Authentication
- play_arrow Configuring Licenses
- play_arrow Managing Signature Database
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- play_arrow Customer Portal
- play_arrow Introduction
- Unified Administration and Customer Portal Overview
- Customer Portal Overview
- Switching the Tenant Scope
- Accessing Customer Portal
- Setting Up Your Network with Customer Portal
- Changing the Password on First Login
- Changing the Customer Portal Password
- Resetting the Password
- Extending the User Login Session
- play_arrow Using the Dashboard
- play_arrow Managing Objects
- play_arrow Monitoring Tenants, Sites, and Services
- play_arrow Monitoring Security Alerts and Alarms
- play_arrow Monitoring Security and Device Events
- play_arrow Monitoring SD-WAN Events
- play_arrow Monitoring Applications
- play_arrow Monitoring Jobs
- play_arrow Managing Devices
- play_arrow Managing Device Images
- play_arrow Managing Network Services
- Network Service Overview
- About the Network Services Page
- About the Service Overview Page
- About the Service Instances Page
- Configuring VNF Properties
- vSRX VNF Configuration Settings
- LxCIPtable VNF Configuration Settings
- Cisco CSR-1000v VNF Configuration Settings
- Riverbed Steelhead VNF Configuration Settings
- Silver Peak VX VNF Configuration Settings
- play_arrow Managing Firewall Policies
- Firewall Policy Overview
- About the Firewall Policy Page
- Firewall Policy Use Cases
- Creating Firewall Policy Intents
- Editing, Cloning, and Deleting Firewall Policy Intents
- Firewall Policy Schedules Overview
- About the Firewall Policy Schedules Page
- Creating Schedules
- Editing, Cloning, and Deleting Schedules
- play_arrow Managing SD-WAN
- play_arrow Managing NAT Policies
- play_arrow Managing Shared Objects
- Addresses and Address Groups Overview
- About the Addresses Page
- Creating Addresses or Address Groups
- Editing, Cloning, and Deleting Addresses and Address Groups
- Services and Service Groups Overview
- About the Services Page
- Creating Services and Service Groups
- Creating Protocols
- Editing and Deleting Protocols
- Editing, Cloning, and Deleting Services and Service Groups
- Application Signatures Overview
- About the Application Signatures Page
- Creating Application Signature Groups
- Editing, Cloning, and Deleting Application Signature Groups
- About the Departments Page
- Creating a Department
- Modifying a Department
- Deleting a Department
- play_arrow Managing Deployments
- play_arrow Managing Sites
- About the Sites Page
- Creating On-Premise Sites
- Creating Cloud Sites
- Configuring a Site by Uploading a JSON File
- Managing a Single Site
- Managing LAN Segments on a Tenant Site
- Activating a CPE Device
- Viewing the History of Device Activation Logs
- Configuring a Site
- Configuring VRFs and PNE Details for a Site in a Centralized Deployment
- play_arrow Managing Site Groups
- play_arrow Reports
- play_arrow Managing Tenant Users
- play_arrow Licenses
- play_arrow Signature Database
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- play_arrow Designer Tools
- play_arrow Configuration Designer
- Configuration Designer Overview
- Accessing the Configuration Designer
- Using the Configuration Designer
- Changing Your Password
- About the Requests Page for the Configuration Designer
- Creating Requests for Configuration Templates
- Designing Templates with a YANG Configuration
- Designing Templates with a Configuration
- Publishing Configuration Templates
- About the Designs Page for the Configuration Designer
- Cloning Configuration Templates
- Deleting Configuration Template Designs
- play_arrow Resource Designer
- Resource Designer Overview
- Using the Resource Designer
- Accessing the Resource Designer
- About the Requests Page for the Resource Designer
- VNF Overview
- Creating Requests for VNF Packages
- Designing VNF Packages
- Adding VNF Managers
- Publishing VNF Packages
- About the Designs Page for the Resource Designer
- Cloning VNF Packages
- Importing VNF Packages
- Exporting VNF Packages
- Deleting VNF Packages
- play_arrow Network Service Designer introduction
- play_arrow Creating Requests for Network Services
- play_arrow Creating Network Services
- About the Build Page for the Network Service Designer
- Viewing Information About VNFs
- Designing Network Services
- Connecting VNFs in a Service Chain
- Defining Ingress and Egress Points for a Service Chain
- Monitoring Performance Goals
- Configuring Network Services
- vSRX Configuration Settings
- LxCIPtable VNF Configuration Settings
- Cisco CSR-1000v VNF Configuration Settings
- Silver Peak VX VNF Configuration Settings
- Riverbed Steelhead VNF Configuration Settings
- play_arrow Managing Network Services
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- play_arrow Service and Infrastructure Monitor
- play_arrow Service and Infrastructure Monitor introduction
- play_arrow Monitoring Activities in the Deployment
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- play_arrow Downloads
Resource Designer Overview
Configuration Designer, Resource Designer, and Network Service Designer are visual designer tools used by the Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) for smooth onboarding. The designer tools offer network designers a convenient way of bringing virtualized network functions (VNFs) from Juniper Networks and third-party companies into the network services catalog using a graphical user interface (GUI).
Resource Designer provides an intuitive GUI-based workflow that guides administrators as they provide the required information to create a VNF package. Resource Designer also validates the created VNF package before it is published to Network Service Designer. Network Service Designer uses VNF packages to design customized network services that are published to the network services catalog, which contains a list of usable network services.
Service provider administrators access the network services catalog to assign a set of network services to their customers using the Administration Portal. Finally, customer administrators access the network services assigned to them using a Customer Portal to manage their sites and services. Figure 1 shows a Resource Designer workflow.
As a system integrator or a service provider, you can use Resource Designer to create and onboard a VNF package that can be used for defining network services. A VNF package is a set of metadata or templates designed for a specific vendor’s VNF. Each VNF has its own combination of resources and performance characteristics. Having access to different levels of VNF packages can help you to design specific service-level agreements (SLAs) for your services. You can assign resources to VNFs using your vendor’s data sheets as a basis.
A typical VNF package might include:
VNF base configuration template—A configuration template can be created in Configuration Designer:
To ensure correct startup and ongoing manageability of the VNF
For management IP, SNMP, and system log configuration of the VNF
VNF descriptor (VNFD)—A deployment template that describes a VNF in terms of its deployment and operational behavior requirements. VNFD is mainly used during the instantiation of a VNF and for lifecycle management of a VNF instance. It includes the following properties:
Connection points—Represents the management interface, left interface, and right interface. Connections points are used to connect the virtual links.
Virtual links—Represents the management network link, left network link, and right network. Virtual links provide connectivity between VDUs.
Virtual deployment units (VDUs) and a topology showing how the VDUs are connected—VDUs are basic part of VNFs. VDUs are used to host the network function.
Allocated CPU and memory
Required storage
Names and types of VNF images
Deployment flavors—A differentiated option such as Gold, Silver, or Bronze with an appropriate SLA metric.
VNF auto-scale policies
VNF Manager plug-in—A plug-in type and name. For example, a VNF Manager for VNF lifecycle management.
Supported function chains—Sequences of network functions, such as firewall, NAT, or WAN optimization, that the VNF packages offers.
Some VNFs, like vSRX, support multiple functions and service chains. For example, vSRX can be deployed in the context of multiple functions such as firewalls, carrier-grade NAT, IDP, UTM, malware, and others.
