- play_arrow Integration With Anuta ATOM
- play_arrow Workflows
- play_arrow Base Platform
- play_arrow Paragon Pathfinder
- play_arrow Paragon Planner
- play_arrow Paragon Insights
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- play_arrow Manage Devices and Network
- play_arrow Devices
- play_arrow Device Groups
- play_arrow Device Images
- play_arrow Network
- play_arrow Network Groups
- play_arrow Topology Filter
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- play_arrow Manage Device Templates and Configuration Templates
- play_arrow Configuration Templates
- Configuration Templates Overview
- Configuration Templates Workflow
- About the Configuration Templates Page
- Add Configuration Templates
- Preview and Render a Configuration Template
- Assign Configuration Templates to a Device Template
- Deploy a Configuration Template to a Device
- Edit, Clone, and Delete a Configuration Template
- play_arrow Device Templates
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- play_arrow Manage Playbook, Rules, Resources, and Graphs
- play_arrow Playbooks
- play_arrow Rules
- Understand Paragon Insights Topics
- Rules Overview
- About the Rules Page
- Add a Predefined Rule
- Edit, Clone, Delete, and Download Rules
- Configure a Custom Rule in Paragon Automation GUI
- Configure Paragon Insights Notification for LSP Gray Failures
- Configure Multiple Sensors per Device
- Understand Sensor Precedence
- Configure Sensor Precedence
- play_arrow Resources
- Understand Root Cause Analysis
- About the Resources Page
- Add Resources for Root Cause Analysis
- Configure Dependency Between Resources
- Example Configuration: OSPF Resource Dependency
- Edit Resources and Dependencies
- Upload Resources
- Download Resources
- Clone Resources
- Delete User-Generated Resources and Dependencies
- Filter Resources
- play_arrow Graphs
- play_arrow Grafana
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- play_arrow Manage Sensor Settings, Insights Settings, and Data Summarization Profiles
- play_arrow Sensor Settings
- Sensors Overview
- About the Ingest Settings Page
- Configure NetFlow Settings
- Configure a Rule Using Flow Sensor
- About the Frequency Profiles
- Manage Frequency Profiles
- Apply a Frequency Profile
- Configure Offset Time
- Configure a Rule Using Server Monitoring Sensor
- Configure Native GPB Ingest
- Configure sFlow Settings
- Configure SNMP Ingest
- Configure a Rule Using SNMP Scalar
- Configure SNMP Trap and Inform Notifications
- Configure Outbound SSH Port for iAgent
- Configure System Log Ingest
- System Log Optional Configurations
- Configure a Rule Using Syslog
- Understand Inband Flow Analyzer 2.0
- Configure Device Details for Inband Flow Analyzer Devices
- Delete an Inband Flow Analyzer Device
- Understand Bring Your Own Ingest
- Load BYOI Default Plug-ins
- Configure Bring Your Own Ingest Default Plug-in Instances
- Build and Load BYOI Custom Plug-in Images
- Configure Bring Your Own Ingest Custom Plug-in Instances
- Use Sample Rule and Playbook Configurations for BYOI Custom Plug-in Instances
- Configure Ingest Mapping for Default BYOI Plug-in Instances
- Delete a BYOI Plug-in
- About the Diagnostics Page
- Use the Self Test Tool
- Use the Reachability Test
- Use the Ingest Test Tool
- Use the No-Data Tool
- Paragon Insights Tagging Overview
- Types of Tagging
- Add a Tagging Profile
- Apply a Tagging Profile
- Delete a Tagging Profile
- Understand User-Defined Actions and Functions
- Modify User-Defined Action, Function, and Workflow Engines
- Enable UDA Scheduler in Trigger Action
- Understand kube-state-metrics Service
- play_arrow Insights Settings
- About the Insights Settings Page
- Add Alert Blackouts
- About Alert Notifications
- Use Exim4 for E-mails
- Configure the Exim4 Agent to Send E-mail
- Configure a Notification Profile
- Enable Alert Notifications for Device Groups and Network Groups
- Configure Report Settings
- Configure Scheduler Settings
- Configure a Retention Policy
- Configure Destination Settings
- Time Series Database (TSDB) Overview
- Manage Time Series Database Settings
- Backup and Restore the TSDB
- Time Series Database Replication Scenarios
- play_arrow Data Summarization Profiles
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- play_arrow Configure Your Network
- play_arrow Topology
- play_arrow Network Information Table
- Network Information Table Overview
- About the Node Tab
- Add a Node
- Edit Node Parameters
- Delete a Node
- About the Link Tab
- Add a Link
- Edit Link Parameters
- Delete a Link
- About the Tunnel Tab
- Understand How Pathfinder Handles LSPs
- Reroute LSPs Overview
- Segment Routing Overview
- Add a Single Tunnel
- Add Diverse Tunnels
- Add Multiple Tunnels
- Edit and Delete Tunnels
- About the Demand Tab
- About the Interface Tab
- Container LSP Overview
- About the Container LSP Tab
- Add a Container LSP
- Edit Container LSP Parameters
- Maintenance Event Overview
- About the Maintenance Tab
- Add a Maintenance Event
- Edit a Maintenance Event
- Simulate a Maintenance Event
- Delete a Maintenance Event
- About the P2MP Groups Tab
- Add a P2MP Group
- Edit P2MP Group Parameters
- About the SRLG/Facility Tab
- Add an SRLG/Facility
- Edit SRLG/Facility Parameters
- About the Topology Group Tab
- Add Anycast Group Tunnels
- play_arrow Tunnels
- play_arrow Change Control Management
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- play_arrow Monitoring
- play_arrow Monitor Network Health
- play_arrow Manage Alarms and Alerts
- play_arrow Monitor Jobs
- play_arrow Analytics
- play_arrow Monitor Workflows
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- play_arrow Reports
- play_arrow Health Reports
- play_arrow Network Reports
- play_arrow Maintenance Reports
- play_arrow Inventory Reports
- play_arrow Demand Reports
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- play_arrow Administration
- play_arrow Manage E-mail Templates
- play_arrow Manage Audit Logs
- play_arrow Configure External EMS
- play_arrow Manage Task Scheduler
- play_arrow Manage Security Settings
- play_arrow License Management
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Understand Differences between Paragon Pathfinder and Planner
This topic explains key differences between Paragon Pathfinder and Paragon Planner, two applications that belong to the Paragon Automation suite of applications:
Paragon Pathfinder (formerly NorthStar Controller) is a traffic engineering solution that simplifies and automates provisioning, management, and monitoring of segment routing and IP/MPLS flows across large networks.
- Paragon Planner (formerly NorthStar Planner) is a network modeling tool that can be used for offline visualization and detailed architectural planning of any production network.
Table 1 lists the key differences between the two applications.
Paragon Pathfinder | Paragon Planner |
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Paragon Pathfinder enables you to monitor your live network and any changes that you make in Pathfinder are propagated to your live network. | Paragon Planner is an offline modeling application, which means that changes that you make in Planner do not affect your live network. |
Pathfinder can connect to the live network because of connectivity between Pathfinder and the live network. | Planner has no capability to connect to the network because there's no connectivity between Planner and the network. |
In Pathfinder, there's only one live network model. | In Planner, you can have one or more offline network models, which means you can analyze and compare impact of different design changes or failure scenarios. However, the changes are not propagated into the live network. |
In Pathfinder, the network model is based on the traffic-engineering database, which is based on the live (real time) status of the network. For example, if you configure a link that later goes down, the down status of the link is reflected in the traffic-engineering database, but not in the router's configuration. | The network models that we use in Planner are from archives and collections in Pathfinder, which means that Planner relies on data from Pathfinder. Planner builds the model of the network using router configuration files, which means that it uses a configuration-based model of the network. Therefore, Planner displays an intent-based model (configuration) with some supplemental live information from Pathfinder, such as initiated label-switched paths (LSPs),which are not available in the router's configuration. |
In Pathfinder, any changes you make to the network model affects the live network. | Planner allows you to run what-if scenarios, which allow you to make changes to the network model and see the effect of those changes, without affecting the live network. |
In Pathfinder, you can perform a maintenance event simulation. You define a maintenance event by specifying what happens, for example, a router goes down or a link fails. Then, based on that event, you simulate what happens to the live LSPs and traffic demands. | In Planner, you can run failure simulations (for example, fail a link or a router) and analyze the impact on traffic demand or LSP tunnels. |
The network topology map shows live node status, link utilization, and LSP paths. | The network topology map shows simulated or imported data for nodes, links, and LSP paths. |
Network information table shows live status of nodes, links, and LSPs. | Network information table shows simulated or imported data for nodes, links, and LSPs. |
Discover nodes, links, and LSPs from the live network by using Path Computation Element (PCE) protocol (PCEP), BGP-LS,or NETCONF. | Import and parse router configuration, or add nodes, links, and LSPs for network modeling. |
Provision LSPs directly to the network. | Add and stage LSPs to the offline model for simulation. However, you cannot provision LSPs to the live network. |
Create or schedule maintenance events to reroute LSPs around the impacted nodes and links. | Create or schedule simulation events to analyze the network model from failure scenarios. |
Dashboard reports show the current status of and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the live network. | Report manager provides extensive reports for simulation and planning. |
Collects real-time interface traffic or delay statistics, and stores the data for querying and for displaying in charts. | Import interface data or aggregate archived data to generate historical statistics for querying and displaying in charts. |