About the Service Instances Page

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks on the Service Instances page:

• View details of service instances.

  Use one of the following options to view details about a service instance:

  • To view service details on the right pane:

    • Hover over the service instance and click the Details icon that appears next to the service instance name.

    • Select the service instance and click More > Detail.

    The service-instance-name pane appears on the right side of the GUI. For information about the details of the fields, see Table 1.

  • Click the service-instance-name hyperlink and view details on the service-instance-name Details page. See View Service Instance Details.

• Create L3VPN service instances. See Add an L3VPN Service Instance.

• Modify L3VPN service instances. See Modify an L3VPN Service Instance.

• Provision a service instance

  To provision a service instance, select the service instance and click Publish. After you publish, a service order is generated. You can view the service order in the Service Orders page (Orchestration > Monitoring > Service Orders) and the execution of the corresponding workflow on the Workflows (Orchestration > Monitoring > Workflows) page.

  Note:

  You can only provision L3VPN service in this release.

• Deprovision a service—To delete or deprovision a service from your network, select the service instance and click More > Deprovision. Click Yes when prompted for confirmation.

• Download sample network resource pools—To download sample resource pools, click More > Download Sample Network Resources. The following files are downloaded to your local system:

  • topo_sample.json.txt—contains samples for L3VPN service topology parameters such as point-of-presence (PoP).

  • vpn_resources_sample.json—contains samples for route distinguisher and route targets for the L3VPN service.

• Upload and view network resource pools—As a prerequisite to creating L3VPN service instances, you must upload topology and VPN network resources to the Paragon Automation database. Paragon Automation uses these network resources for automatic configuration of service parameters.

  To upload network service resources as JSON files, click More > Upload Network Resources. See Add Network Resources for L3VPN Service.

  To view the network resources, click More > View Network Resources. The Network Resources page displays all network resource pools available in the Paragon Automation database.

• Export details of a service instance in the JSON format—To export a service instance in the JSON format and save it on your local system, select the service instance and click More > Export. The plan.service-instance-name.json file is downloaded to your local system.

• Filter the data displayed in the table—Click the filter icon (funnel) and select whether you want to show or hide advanced filters. You can then add or remove filter criteria, save criteria as a filter, apply or clear filters, and so on. The filtered results are displayed on the same page.

• Search by using keywords—Click the search icon (magnifying glass), enter the search term in the text box, and press Enter. The search results are displayed on the same page.

• Show or hide columns in the table or reset page preferences, using the vertical ellipsis menu.

Field Descriptions

Table 1 lists the fields on the Service Instances page.