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Table of Contents
- play_arrow Getting Started
- play_arrow Blueprints
- play_arrow Blueprint Analytics
- What are Blueprint Analytics
- play_arrow Dashboards
- What are Blueprint Analytics Dashboards
- Configure Auto-Enabled Blueprint Analytics Dashboards
- Instantiate Predefined Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- play_arrow Predefined Dashboards
- Create Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- Export Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- Import Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- Update Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- Delete Blueprint Analytics Dashboard
- play_arrow Anomalies
- play_arrow Probes
- What are Probes
- Show Context Patterns
- Instantiate Predefined Probe
- play_arrow Predefined Probes
- Probe: BGP Monitoring
- Bandwidth Utilization Probe
- Critical Services: Utilization, Trending, Alerting Probe
- Device Environmental Checks Probe
- Device System Health Probe
- Device Telemetry Health Probe
- Device Traffic Probe
- Drain Traffic Anomaly Probe
- ECMP Imbalance (External Interfaces) Probe
- ECMP Imbalance (Fabric Interfaces) Probe
- ECMP Imbalance (Spine to Superspine Interfaces) Probe
- ESI Imbalance Probe
- EVPN Host Flapping Probe
- EVPN VXLAN Type-3 Route Validation Probe
- EVPN VXLAN Type-5 Route Validation Probe
- External Routes Probe
- Hot/Cold Interface Counters (Fabric Interfaces) Probe
- Hot/Cold Interface Counters (Specific Interfaces) Probe
- Hot/Cold Interface Counters (Spine to Superspine Interfaces) Probe
- Hypervisor and Fabric LAG Config Mismatch Probe (Virtual Infra) Probe
- Hypervisor and Fabric VLAN Config Mismatch Probe
- Hypervisor MTU Mismatch Probe (Virtual Infra - NSX-T Only)
- Hypervisor MTU Threshold Check Probe (Virtual Infra)
- Hypervisor Missing LLDP Config Probe (Virtual Infra)
- Hypervisor Redundancy Checks Probe (Virtual Infra)
- Interface Flapping (Fabric Interfaces) Probe
- Interface Flapping (Specific Interfaces) Probe
- Interface Flapping (Spine to Superspine Interfaces) Probe
- Interface Policy 802.1x Probe
- LAG Imbalance Probe
- Leafs Hosting Critical Services: Utilization, Trending, Alerting Probe
- Link Fault Tolerance in Leaf and Access LAGs Probe
- MAC Monitor Probe
- MLAG Imbalance Probe
- Multiagent Detector Probe
- Optical Transceivers Probe
- Packet Discard Percentage Probe
- Spine Fault Tolerance Probe
- Total East/West Traffic Probe
- VMs without Fabric Configured VLANs Probe (Virtual Infra) Probe
- VXLAN Flood List Validation Probe
- Create Probe
- play_arrow Probe Processors
- Accumulate Processor
- Average Processor
- BGP Session Processor
- Comparison Processor
- Environment Processor
- EVPN Type 3 Processor
- EVPN Type 5 Processor
- Extensible Service Collector Processor
- Generic Graph Collector Processor
- Generic Service Data Collector Processor
- Interface Counters Processor
- Logical Operator Processor
- MAC Processor
- Match Count Processor
- Match Percentage Processor
- Match String Processor
- Max Processor
- Min Processor
- Optical Threshold Processor
- Optical Xcvr Processor
- Periodic Average Processor
- Periodic Change Processor
- Range Processor
- Ratio Processor
- Service Collector Processor
- Set Comparison Processor
- Set Count Processor
- Standard Deviation Processor
- State Processor
- Subtract Processor
- Sum Processor
- System Utilization Processor
- Telemetry Service Health Processor
- Time in State Processor
- Traffic Monitor Processor
- Union Processor
- VXLAN Floodlist Processor
- Import Probe
- Update Probe
- Export Probe
- Delete Probe
- play_arrow Predefined Reports
- play_arrow Root Causes
- play_arrow Staged Freeform Blueprints
- Freeform Introduction
- play_arrow Blueprints
- play_arrow Physical
- play_arrow Selection
- play_arrow Topology
- play_arrow Systems
- Systems Introduction (Freeform)
- Create Internal System (Freeform)
- Create External System (Freeform)
- Update Assigned Config Template(Freeform)
- Update System Name (Freeform)
- Update Hostname (Freeform)
- Change Assigned Device Profile (Freeform)
- Update System ID Assignment (Freeform)
- Update Deploy Mode (Freeform)
- Add/Remove System Tags (Freeform)
- Delete System (Freeform)
- Device Context (Freeform)
- play_arrow Links
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- play_arrow Resource Management
- Resource Management Introduction (Freeform)
- play_arrow Blueprint Resources
- play_arrow Allocation Groups
- play_arrow Local Pools
- play_arrow Catalog (Freeform)
- play_arrow Config Templates
- play_arrow Device Profiles
- play_arrow Property Sets
- play_arrow Tags
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- play_arrow Tasks
- play_arrow Uncommitted Blueprints
- play_arrow Active Datacenter Blueprints
- play_arrow Time Voyager (Blueprints)
- play_arrow Devices
- Device Configuration Lifecycle
- What are Managed Devices
- Add Managed Device
- Drain Device Traffic
- Upgrade Device NOS
- Device AAA
- play_arrow Device
- play_arrow Agent
- play_arrow Pristine Config
- play_arrow Telemetry
- play_arrow Apstra ZTP
- What is Apstra ZTP
- Create User Profile for Communicating with ZTP Server
- Download and Deploy Apstra ZTP Server VM
- Configure Static Management IP Address for Apstra ZTP Server
- Replace SSL Certificate for Apstra ZTP Server GUI
- Create Vendor-specific Custom Configuration
- Configure Credentials for Apstra ZTP Server GUI
- Configure Apstra Server Connection Details
- Configure DHCP Server for Apstra ZTP
- ztp.json Keys
- Configure ztp.json with Configurator
- Configure ztp.json with CLI
- Show Apstra ZTP Logs
- Onboard Devices with Apstra ZTP
- Check ZTP Status of Devices and Services
- Reset Apstra ZTP GUI Admin Password
- Authenticate User (AZTP REST API)
- play_arrow Device Profiles
- play_arrow Design
- play_arrow Logical Devices
- play_arrow Interface Maps
- play_arrow Rack Types
- play_arrow Templates
- play_arrow Config Templates (Freeform)
- play_arrow Configlets (Datacenter)
- play_arrow Property Sets (Datacenter)
- play_arrow TCP/UDP Ports
- play_arrow Tags
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- play_arrow Resources
- play_arrow Telemetry Analytics
- Analytics Telemetry Services
- Analytics Telemetry Service Registry
- Create Telemetry Service Schema
- Telemetry Collection Statistics
- Telemetry Streaming
- Apstra Telemetry Streaming Plugin for Telegraf
- Route Anomalies for a Host - Example
- Juniper Telemetry Commands
- Cisco Telemetry Commands
- Arista Telemetry Commands
- Linux Server Telemetry Command
- Debugging Telemetry
- play_arrow Flow Analytics
- play_arrow Apstra Flow Overview
- play_arrow Dashboards
- play_arrow Supported Flow Records
- play_arrow Flow Enrichment
- play_arrow Monitor Apstra Flow
- play_arrow Configuration Reference
- play_arrow API
- play_arrow Additional Documentation
- play_arrow Knowledge Base
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- play_arrow Exploratory Analytics
- play_arrow External Systems
- play_arrow Providers (Not SSO)
- play_arrow SSO Providers
- play_arrow Provider Role Mapping
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- play_arrow Platform
- play_arrow User Management
- play_arrow Security
- play_arrow External Services
- play_arrow Streaming
- Event Log (Audit Log)
- Licenses
- play_arrow Apstra Edge
- play_arrow Apstra VM Clusters
- play_arrow Developers
- play_arrow Technical Support
- Check Apstra Versions and Patent Numbers
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- play_arrow Favorites & User
- play_arrow Apstra Server Management
- Apstra Server Introduction
- Monitor Apstra Server via CLI
- Restart Apstra Server
- Reset Apstra Server VM Password
- Reinstall Apstra Server
- Apstra Database Overview
- Back up Apstra Database
- Restore Apstra Database
- Reset Apstra Database
- Migrate Apstra Database
- Replace SSL Certificate on Apstra Server with Signed One
- Replace SSL Certificate on Apstra Server with Self-Signed One
- Change Apstra Server Hostname
- FIPS 140-2 Support
- play_arrow Apstra CLI Utility
- play_arrow Guides
- play_arrow References
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Generic Systems vs. External Generic Systems
When to use a generic system and when to use an external generic system:
Generic System
- For attaching compute/storage
- Can only be connected to a single rack
- Appears in the topology as part of a rack
External Generic System
- For middleware devices, such as firewalls, load balancers, external routers and so on*
- Can be connected to multiple racks
- Appears in the topology outside of racks for easier identification
* In many cases, middleware boxes only connect to a single border leaf pair in a rack, but configuring it as an external generic system allows it to be visually separated outside of the rack. However, if there is a requirement such as connecting to an external router (MX) via BGP and you want to provide rack redundancy, then you would use an external generic system to allow this multi-rack connectivity.
