Anomalies (Service)

From your blueprint, navigate to Dashboard to see a high level view of your network with its different statuses and if/where you have anomalies.

To see anomaly details, click one of the red indicators. The screenshot below is for IP fabric cabling anomalies.

To see the anomalies in the topology view, click Active.

To see the topology view of a selection, click the node in the topology. The screenshot below is for spine1.

To see a comparison of expectations vs. actual, click All Services in the right panel. If other anomalies exist in addition to the cabling anomalies (our example), they're shown in this list as well.

To see additional details, click one of the tabs, LLDP for example, click LLDP.

To see how to resolve these cabling issues, see Fetching Discovered LLDP Data.

You can see the history of blueprint anomalies in the Active tab of the blueprint (as of Apstra version 5.0.0).

Note:

This feature is classified as a Juniper Apstra Technology Preview feature. These features are "as is" and voluntary use. Juniper Support will attempt to resolve any issues that customers experience when using these features and create bug reports on behalf of support cases. However, Juniper may not provide comprehensive support services to Tech Preview features.

For additional information, refer to the Juniper Apstra Technology Previews page or contact Juniper Support.

From the blueprint, navigate to Active > Anomalies and click to toggle ON Time Series.

The Anomalies tab now shows a chart of the anomalies count over time, grouped per type of anomaly (BGP, cabling, route and so on). You can zoom in and zoom out to look for a specific time interval in detail.

Selecting an individual anomaly you also can see the historical timeline of the anomaly to show the occurrences of that specific anomaly in the recent history. The default retention period is set to 30 days.

Running configurations on devices are continuously compared with the Golden Config. If a config deviation is found, a configuration anomaly is raised. Typically such deviations are seen when changes were made outside of Apstra (from the device CLI), or attempting to deploy configuration on a switch that is not able to take the change. These anomalies remain active until either the anomalous configuration is removed from the device or the anomaly is suppressed. (The screenshots below are from a previous version of Apstra.)

1. From the blueprint dashboard, any configuration deviations are displayed in the Deployment Status section.
2. Click Config Dev. to see the list of node(s) with anomalies.
3. Click a node name to see the device telemetry page, then click Config to see a side-by-side comparison of the actual config to the golden config. (The difference is not shown in the image below.)
4. To keep the configuration difference, click Accept Changes. This suppresses the configuration anomaly, and does not affect "Intended" or Apstra-rendered config. the primary purpose of "Accept Changes" is to mitigate cosmetic configuration anomalies.
   Note:

   Out-of-band (OOB) changes to the fabric are not supported. Do not Accept Changes to attempt to add OOB changes. For custom changes, use configlets.

   CAUTION:
   • Depending on the change, Apstra may overwrite out-of-band changes. There is no way to avoid this. As such, always avoid OOB changes in the Apstra environment.
   • Using Accept Changes does not make the OOB change persistent. In the event of a full config push or Apstra writing to the same config, all OOB changes are discarded.
5. To make the actual configuration conform to the intended configuration, click Apply Full Config, then click Confirm. Applying the full config erases the device's current (unintended) configuration before re-applying the complete intended configuration. A full configuration push does not include any OOB changes, and therefore erases them, regardless of their "Accepted" state.
   CAUTION:

   Applying a full config is a disruptive operation and results in a temporary loss of service to the device.

   CAUTION:

   Never directly modify any Apstra-rendered config that affects routing and connectivity. Doing so can potentially impact the network's operation. When in doubt, contact Juniper Support.

6. After resolving the config deviation anomaly (accept changes or apply full config) the actual config matches the golden config and the anomaly is cleared.