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Release Notes: Juniper Data Center Assurance

Software Highlights

2026

  • Enables you to view actionable energy insights at the organization, site, and device levels.

  • Helps you track GHG emission and power cost.

  • Provides annual energy reports with historical trends.

  • Provides AI-generated forecasts to predict future energy demand and support capacity planning.

  • Enables you to review device-level recommendations to optimize energy efficiency.

  • Enables you to prevent potential failures in the optical interfaces of the network devices by utilizing the insights provided by an ML-based mechanism to predict optical health.

  • Provides information about the overall service performance impact due to system health and link health related anomalies.

  • Provides information about the health and status of external routers connected to a border leaf of the data center network.

  • Provides insights about the performance of the access layer switches in the data center.

2025

  • Provides information about Service Level Expectation (SLE) score for entire organization, sites, and the devices.

  • Provides information about the VMs deployed in the data center network in the topology views.

  • Provides licensing information about the features you are entitled to use.

  • Monitors and analyzes anomalies and events from the data centers managed by Apstra Data Center Director and provides actionable recommendations.

  • Monitors events in data centers managed by Apstra Data Center Director from Mist.

  • Provides generative AI-based Marvis conversational interface to search Juniper Networks documentation for troubleshooting information.

  • Provides alert notifications and alert templates to notify administrators when an event is generated.

  • Enables network administrators to simulate failure scenarios to identify the potential impact an anomaly can have on services and clients.

  • Enables you to search about Juniper products and services using the AI-enabled Marvis Conversational Interface (CI).

  • Enables you to upgrade Apstra Edge remotely.

  • Enables you to validate the health and connectivity of DC Assurance setup using the Juniper Data Center Assurance Setup Validation Tool.

  • Enables you to provide feedback about Juniper Data Center Assurance and Apstra Data Center Director.

  • Enables you to monitor the health of the data center fabric.

  • Provides insights about the performance of the superspines in the data center.

  • Enables you to monitor the health and connectivity of virtual devices in the data center network.

  • Provides aggregated information about the sites that you have access to based on your user role.

  • Provides reports that summarize support insights at the organizational level and on a per-device basis within your organization.

  • Validates your user account before providing access to customer-centric information about your devices.

  • Enables you to easily report issues, get assistance, and track the status of the issues directly from within the Juniper Data Center Assurance application.

  • Enables you to verify configurations on Apstra as well as identify and address issues that might affect DC Assurance feature functionality using the pre-flight check feature.

  • Enables you to use Marvis—our AI-powered conversational assistant, to proactively resolve issues without having to create a support request.

  • Provides detailed information about the devices managed by all connected Apstra instances to observers, network administrators, and superusers.

  • Enables you to use a combination of screen readers and keyboard shortcuts to navigate the dashboard, making the dashboard compliant with WCAG 2.1.

  • Provides operational insights about the performance of flow servers associated with the controllers.

  • Enables you to configure multiple flow servers managing the sites in the network to a single Edge device.

  • Enables you to monitor and respond to anomalies in the virtual infrastructure in your data center.

  • Helps you prevent potential anomalies and device failures in the network by utilizing the insights provided by the ML-based predictive analytics feature.

  • Enables you to import and install add-ons from the DC Hub to enhance various Apstra features.

  • Provides network administrators the option to set a preferred application portal for the organization.

  • Enables you to track support coverage across your inventory by displaying the support status of your devices on the Installed Base tab.

  • Provides a dashboard for you to quickly access contract details, monitor overall support posture, and identify devices that may require attention.

2024

  • Provides visibility into application performance (Application Aware) by visualizing the impact of network events on services, allowing for faster troubleshooting and improved reliability.

  • Provides a graphical representation of network resource-to-service mapping of the data center network and the services showing how applications and services utilize the data center network.

  • Performs impact analysis to help identify the root causes of application issues, enabling quicker resolutions network issues.