About the Network Implementation Plan Page

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks from this page:

• View details of a network implementation plan.

  To view details of a network implementation plan, select the network implementation plan and click More > Detail. Alternatively, hover over the plan name and click the Details icon that appears.

  The Network-Implementation-Plan-Name pane appears on the right of the page displaying information such as the number of devices to which the plan is applied, status of the plan, description and so on. See Table 1.

  You can also view the network implementation plan in JSON format, view the history of the plan, and the resources used in the plan.

• Add a network implementation plan. See Add a Network Implementation Plan.

• Publish a network implementation plan. See Publish a Network Implementation Plan.

• Resume the Onboarding workflow.

  You can use the Resume Onboarding option to resume onboarding a device when the onboarding of a device fails for any reason. Before resuming onboarding, ensure that you have resolved the reason for the onboarding to fail.

  To resume the onboarding workflow:

  1. Click More > Resume Onboarding.

     The Resume Onboarding page appears listing the devices included in the plan that have failed onboarding.

  2. Select a device from the list and click OK.

     The onboarding workflow restarts from where it failed and a message indicating that the onboarding workflow has resumed appears.

  3. Monitor the progress of the onboarding on the Put Devices into Service page (Inventory > Device Onboarding > Onboarding Dashboard).

• View the history of a network implementation plan.

  To view the change history of a network implementation plan, click More > Order History. The Order History: Plan-Name pane displays the operation (create, modify), status, device count, the user who created or edited the plan and the version of the plan.

  Click View Content to view the plan in JSON format.

• Export a network implementation plan.

  To export a network implementation plan, select the plan and click More > Export. The network implementation plan is exported in the JSON format.

  The exported file contains all the tasks executed to onboard the devices in the plan. You can export a network implementation plan and use it to:

  • View the progress of the onboarding workflow.

  • Troubleshoot issues in onboarding.

• Download sample network resources in JSON format.

  To download and view sample network resources in JSON format, click More > Download Sample Network Resources. The sample JSON files l3-stuff.json and routing.json are downloaded to your local system. The l3-stuff.json file contains resource pools for IPv4 addresses and loopback addresses. The routing.json file contains resource pools for autonomous system (AS) numbers, BGP cluster IDs, and segment identifiers (SID).

• Upload network resources. See Add Network Resource Pools for Device Onboarding by Using the GUI.

• View resource pools for the network resources that you uploaded to Paragon Automation. See View Network Resources.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Sort, resize, or re-arrange columns in a table (grid).

• Refresh the Network implementation Plan table and set auto refresh frequency—A Refresh icon is provided at the bottom left-corner of the Network Implementation Plan table. Click the Refresh icon to view the most recent updates made to the network implementation plans.

  Click the ellipsis next to the Refresh icon to set the auto refresh frequency. You can either turn off the auto refresh of the table or set the auto refresh frequency to 30 seconds, 1 min, 3 mins, and 5 mins.

• Set the number of rows to be displayed in the table—Set the number of rows (15, 30, 50, or 100) to be displayed in the Network Implementation Plan table in the Display drop-down list provided at the bottom right-corner of the table.

  If there are multiple pages of rows, use the arrow heads to traverse through the pages or enter a page number to view the entries listed on that page.