- play_arrow Introduction
- play_arrow Routing Protocols
- play_arrow Equal Cost Multiple Paths
- play_arrow Static Routes
- play_arrow Policy-Based Routes
- play_arrow Border Gateway Protocol
- NorthStar Planner Border Gateway Protocol Overview
- Border Gateway Protocol Recommended Instructions
- BGP Data Extraction
- BGP Reports
- BGP Options
- BGP Map
- BGP Live Status Check
- BGP Routing Table
- BGP Routes Analysis
- BGP Information at a Node
- BGP Neighbor
- Apply, Modify, or Add BGP Polices
- BGP Subnets
- Getipconf Usage Notes
- BGP Report
- play_arrow Virtual Private Networks
- NorthStar Planner Virtual Private Networks Overview
- Importing VPN Information from Router Configuration Files
- Viewing the Integrity Checks Reports
- Accessing VPN Summary Information
- Accessing Detailed Information for a Particular VPN
- VPN Topology View
- Route-Target Export/Import Relationships
- Additional Methods to Access VPN Information
- VPN Path Tracing
- VPN Design and Modeling Using the VPN Wizard
- L3 (Layer 3) VPN
- L3 Hub-and-Spoke VPN
- L2M (Layer2-Martini) VPN
- L2K (Layer2-Kompella) VPN
- VPLS-BGP VPN (for Juniper)
- VPLS-LDP VPN
- L2CCC (Circuit Cross-Connect) VPN
- Inter-AS VPN
- Forming VPN Customer Groups
- Deleting or Renaming VPNs
- VPN Configlet Generation
- Adding Traffic Demands in a VPN
- VPN Traffic Generation
- VPN-Related Reports
- VPN Monitoring and Diagnostics
- play_arrow GRE Tunnels
- play_arrow Multicast
- NorthStar Planner Multicast Overview
- NorthStar Planner Recommended Multicast Instructions
- Creating Multicast Groups
- Creating Multicast Demands
- Viewing Multicast Demands in the Network
- Comparing Multicast with Unicast
- Multicast SPT Threshold
- Multicast Reports
- Multicast Simulation
- Collecting Multicast Path Data from Live Network
- Importing Multicast Path Data
- Multicast Data Processing
- Viewing Multicast Trees
- play_arrow Class of Service
- NorthStar Planner Class of Service Overview
- NorthStar Planner Recommended CoS Instructions
- The QoS Manager
- Define Class Maps
- Create Policies for Classes
- Attach Policies to Interfaces
- Adding Traffic Inputs
- Using the Text Editor
- Reporting Module
- IP Flow Information
- Link information
- Traffic Load Analysis
- Traffic Load by Policy Class
- CoS Alias File
- Bblink File
- Policymap File
- Demand File
- Traffic Load File
- play_arrow Routing Instances
- play_arrow Traffic Matrix Solver
- play_arrow LSP Tunnels
- NorthStar Planner LSP Tunnels Overview
- Viewing Tunnel Info
- Viewing Primary and Backup Paths
- Viewing Tunnel Utilization Information from the Topology Map
- Viewing Tunnels Through a Link
- Viewing Demands Through a Tunnel
- Viewing Link Attributes/Admin-Group
- Viewing Tunnel-Related Reports
- Adding Primary Tunnels
- Adding Multiple Tunnels
- Mark MPLS-Enabled on Links Along Path
- Modifying Tunnels
- Path Configuration
- Specifying a Dynamic Path
- Specifying Alternate Routes, Secondary and Backup Tunnels
- Adding and Assigning Tunnel ID Groups
- Making Specifications for Fast Reroute
- Specifying Tunnel Constraints (Affinity/Mask or Include/Exclude)
- Adding One-Hop Tunnels
- Tunnel Layer and Layer 3 Routing Interaction
- play_arrow Optimizing Tunnel Paths
- play_arrow Tunnel Sizing and Demand Sizing
- play_arrow Tunnel Path Design
- Tunnel Path Design Overview
- Tunnel Path Design Instructions
- Designing Tunnel Paths Overview
- Backup Path Configuration Options
- Default Diversity Level
- Evaluate/Tune Options
- Advanced Options
- Viewing Design Results
- Tunnel Modifications
- Exporting and Importing Diverse Group Definitions
- Advanced Path Modification
- play_arrow Inter-Area MPLS-TE
- play_arrow Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Traffic Engineering
- NorthStar Planner P2MP Traffic Engineering Overview
- Point-to-Multipoint Traffic Engineering Instructions
- Import a Network That Already has Configured P2MP LSP Tunnels
- Examine the P2MP LSP Tunnels
- Create P2MP LSP Tunnels and Generate Corresponding LSP Configlets
- Examine P2MP LSP Tunnel Link Utilization
- Perform Failure Simulation and Assess the Impact
- play_arrow Diverse Multicast Tree Design
- Diverse Multicast Tree Design Overview
- Diverse Multicast Tree Instructions
- Open a Network That Already Has a Multicast Tree
- Set the Two P2MP Trees of Interest to be in the Same Diversity Group
- Using the Multicast Tree Design Feature to Design Diverse Multicast Trees
- Using the Multicast Tree Design Feature
- play_arrow DiffServ Traffic Engineering Tunnels
- DiffServ Traffic Engineering Tunnels Overview
- Using DS-TE LSP
- Hardware Support for DS-TE LSP
- NorthStar Planner Support for DS-TE LSP
- Configuring the Bandwidth Model and Default Bandwidth Partitions
- Forwarding Class to Class Type Mapping
- Link Bandwidth Reservation
- Creating a New Multi-Class or Single-Class LSP
- Configuring a DiffServ-Aware LSP
- Tunnel Routing
- Link Utilization Analysis
- play_arrow Fast Reroute
- NorthStar Planner Fast Reroute Overview
- Fast Reroute Supported Vendors
- Import Config and Tunnel Path
- Viewing the FRR Configuration
- Viewing FRR Backup Tunnels
- Viewing Primary Tunnels Protected by a Bypass Tunnel
- Modifying Tunnels to Request FRR Protection
- Modifying Links to Configure Multiple Bypasses (Juniper only)
- Modifying Links to Trigger FRR Backup Tunnel Creation (Cisco)
- FRR Design
- FRR Auto Design
- FRR Tuning
- Viewing Created Backup Tunnels
- Generating LSP Configlets for FRR Backup Tunnels
- Failure Simulation—Testing the FRR Backup Tunnels
- Exhaustive Failure
- Link, Site and Facility Diverse Paths
- play_arrow Cisco Auto-Tunnels
- play_arrow Integrity Check Report
- play_arrow Virtual Local Area Networks
- play_arrow Overhead Calculation
- play_arrow Router Reference
Bandwidth
- Click on “Browse” to select the appropriate
file or directory for each source. Then, if you want to deselect a
file or directory as a source, use the drop-down selection box and
choose <none selected>.Figure 1: Bandwidth Tab
- In the Select Bandwidth Options section, click in the
checkboxes to select any of the desired options. A description of
these options is listed in the table below.
Option
Description
Corresponding Text Interface Option
MPLS Topology File
This is the file that contains the topology information of the network obtained from the following commands:
show mpls traf topology (Cisco) show ted database extensive (Juniper)
-t topfile
Interface Directory
This directory contains interface bandwidth data retrieved using CLI commands. Read the CLI results of “show interface” on the router to get the bandwidth of the interfaces and save it to a file. The CLI commands are: Cisco:
# show running | include hostname # show interfaces
Juniper:
# show configuration | match “host-name” # show interfaces | no-more
-i interfaceDir
SNMP Directory
This directory contains interface bandwidth data retrieved from SNMP data. SNMP data is collected by the NorthStar Planner Traffic Data Collector. The file names should be hostname.suffix or ipaddress.suffix.
-snmp snmpDir
Config Directory
This directory contains your router configuration files (obtained using commands like “show configuration | display inheritance” (Juniper) and “show running-config” (Cisco).
Use the first word of the interface description for trunk type
This option is for certain users who indicate the trunk type in the description line for an interface. If checked, the first word of the interface description will be used to set the trunk type of that interface, if it is a valid trunk type. If it is not a valid trunk type, then the Trunk Type File, $WANDL_HOME/db/misc/bwconv, will be used to set the trunk type.
For example, suppose you have the following statement in the interface section for a Serial link:description T3 to N2 (Cisco) description “T3 to N2”; (Juniper)
If you select this option, that link will be assigned the trunktype T3.
-commentBW
Trunk Type File
This file is used primarily to define a mapping from interface types not recognized by NorthStar Planner into trunk types that are recognized. The default bwconvfile is located in $WANDL_HOME/db/misc/bwconv and is editable.
-b bwconvfile
Use STM instead of OC for trunk type
Trunk types in the generated NorthStar Planner bblink file will be given “STM” prefixes rather than “OC” prefixes.
-STM
Use average ATM bandwidth
(Retired option) In a router, if there are ATM interfaces, e.g. ATM1/0, ATM1/0.1, ATM1/0.2 and ATM1/0.3, their bandwidth will be derived using the following simple formula(if this option is selected):
Maximum BW of these interfaces / # of interfaces and subinterfaces
If ATM1/0 is 20M, ATM1/0.1 is 0, ATM1/0.2 is 2M, and ATM1/0.3 is 10M, then each bandwidth will be calculated as 20M/4 = 5M.
-atmbw
TSolve Bandwidth
If the interface utilization at the time of collecting “show interface” exceeds this bandwidth, a link will be created for this interface to a dummy node (e.g., AS1000xxx).
-TSolveBW bw
Figure 2: Network Tab
- Click on the next tab, Misc. Here, you may set other desired
options during the conversion of the router configuration files to
the NorthStar Planner network model.Figure 3: Misc Tab
Option
Description
Corresponding Text Interface Option
Allow duplicate address links
This option will print those links that have duplicated IP addresses in other links. By default, these links are commented out.
-printDup
Stitch by secondary subnet
For ethernets which have secondary addresses, if their primary addresses do not match any subnet, the program will try to match their secondary addresses.
-secondary
Only list policies on link
Only the CoS policies on links in the network will be processed and saved to the policymap file. This option can be used to speed up performance by reducing the number of policies to only the ones that are relevant to routing/dimensioning.
-policyOnLink
Enable media type checking
This option will match nodes that have different media types but are within the same subnet.
-noMedia (to disable this option)
Extract NetFlow sample rate
This option will read in the user-specified NetFlow sample rate
-iptraf
Extended Integrity Check
This option will cause the set of extended integrity checks to be performed
-exIC
Include management interfaces
By default, management interfaces, e.g., fxp0 for Juniper, will not be stitched together to form links. If it is desired to stitch together management interfaces based on IP address subnets, check this icon.
-mgnt
Create dummy nodes for unrecognized files
If you would like to include hosts other than routers and switches in your network model, check the option
-dummyNode
Allow logical nodes without interface
If this option is selected, logical nodes without any interfaces configured will be parsed and displayed as an isolated node. By default, this option is not selected, and logical nodes lacking interfaces will not be displayed.
-nodewoIntf
Use IPv6 addresses to stitching links
If this option is selected IPv6 addresses will be used to stich links.
-IPv6
Mark operational down links as deleted
If this option is selected, links that are operationally down will be marked as deleted in the bblink file.
-operStatus
Delete existing data with duplicated hostname
If this option is selected, and a config file is collected for the same hostname twice, one of the config files will be deleted.
Ignore VRF when stitching links
The data extraction program uses various rules to stitch links, some of which are intelligent guesses based on BGP/VPNv4 information. If this option is selected, those VRF-related rules will be ignored, and links will not be stitched based on VRF information.
-ignoreVRFOnLink
Remove JUNOS RE extension in hostname
For JUNOS dual routing engine support, by default the RE extension in the router name is removed for the Node ID and Node Name, but not the hostname. To also remove it from the hostname, select this option.
Use shutdown interfaces/tunnel for links
If this option is selected, then shutdown links will be used for stitching up the backbone links. By default, these links are not used for link stitch-up.
- Click on the Files tab.Figure 4: Files Tab
Option
Description
Corresponding Text Interface Option
IC message file
The IC message file is the integrity check profile file that allows the user to define the severity of a check as well as whether or not to include a particular check in the generated report.
-IC
Delay measurement file
A delay measurement file provides an easier method of inputting delay statistics into the network model. (Alternatively, delay information can be specified in the bblink link file.) Supplying the actual link delay measurements enables the program to accurately compute delays of end-to-end paths. See Delay Measurement File for file format information.
-delay delayFile
Routing instance file
A file containing routing instance definitions. For more information about this feature including the file format, see NorthStar Planner Routing Instances Overview.
-routeInstance routeinstanceFile
Service Type File
The service type file is used to match demands with services such as email, ftp, etc.
-srvcType serviceTypeFile
SRP Topology File
Output of “show srp topology” used for RPR rings. For more information, see Resilient Packet Ring Overview.
-srp srpTopoFile
Node Alias File
This file can be used when there are devices with dual routing engines to indicate that two routing engine hostnames belong to the same device. For Juniper, this is only needed if the names do not follow the standard naming convention of ending with re0 or re1.
Each line of the node alias file should contain the mapping from the routing engine(s) to the corresponding AliasName that will represent the device on the topology.
<AliasName> <RoutingEngine0’s Hostname> <RoutingEngine1’s Hostname>-nodealiasnodealiasFile
OSPF Neighbor
Either a directory or file can be specified for this option. If a directory neighborDir is specified, the program will read all the files in that directory. The text files should contain the results of a Cisco IOS router’s “show ip ospf neighbor” statement or Juniper router’s “show ospf neighbor | no-more” statement. See /u/wandl/db/command for the statements for additional vendors like Cisco CRS and Tellabs. This additional information helps connect the devices on the topology view.
Each file should be preceded by the hostname, e.g., “hostname <hostname>” for Cisco or “host-name <hostname>;” for Juniper. In some cases, it may be possible to extract the hostname from the prompt if the line "[hostname]>show ip ospf neighbor" is included before its results. Note that the prompt can be either “>” or “#” and that the short form, “sh ip ospf nei” is also recognized.
-ospfnbr neighborDir or -ospfnbr neighborFile
OAM directory
OAM can be used for connectivity checking for Juniper and Zyxel at the MAC address layer. The OAM directory can be collected from the Scheduling Live Network Task (online users), or manually via the commands in /u/wandl/db/command/*.oam.
-oam oamDir
Multicast Path
Output of “show ip mroute” (Cisco IOS) or “show multicast route” (JUNOS). Each file should be begin with the router hostname information.
ISIS Neighbor
If a directory is specified, containing the outputs of “show isis neighbors detail” (for Cisco IOS) or “show isis adjacency detail” (for JUNOS), the program will read these files to stitch together devices on the topology view.
Each file’s command outputs should be preceded by the hostname, e.g., “hostname <hostname>” for Cisco or “host-name <hostname>;” for Juniper.
-isisnbr neighborDir
LDP Neighbor
If a directory is specified, containing the outputs of “show ldp neighbor” (JUNOS) or “show mpls ldp neighbor” (Cisco IOS), the program will read these files to stitch together devices on the topology view.
Each file’s command outputs should be preceded by the hostname, e.g., “hostname <hostname>” for Cisco or “host-name <hostname>;” for Juniper.
-ldpnbr ldpDir
Figure 5: Ignore Options Tab
