Paragon Automation GUI Menu Overview

The Paragon Automation GUI menu enables you to access the different Paragon Automation applications and perform tasks related to those applications. In addition, you can perform tasks that are common to the different Paragon Automation applications. The tasks that you can perform is based on the roles and access privileges (capabilities) that you’re assigned as a Paragon Automation user. For more information, see Roles Overview.

Note:

Paragon Active Assurance is not yet integrated with the Paragon Automation suite of applications. Therefore, Paragon Active Assurance features are not accessible from the Paragon Automation GUI.

Table 1 shows the top-level menu items (sub-menus) in the Paragon Automation GUI.

Table 1: Paragon Automation Main Menu
Sub-menu	Description
Favorites	Displays the pages that are marked as favorites. See Paragon Automation GUI Overview.
Dashboard	Access a user-configurable dashboard that you can customize with available widgets (also known as dashlets). See About the Dashboard Page.
Monitoring	Access various monitoring tasks, such as network health, alarms and alerts, and jobs. See Table 2.
Reports	Access various types of reports, such as health,network, maintenance, inventory, and demand reports. See Table 3.
Network	Access tasks related to Paragon Pathfinder, such as network topology, label-switched path (LSP) delegation, and path optimization. See Table 4.
Planning	Access the Paragon Planner desktop and web application. See Table 5.
Configuration	Access tasks related to configuration, such as adding and discovering devices, device and network groups, templates, playbooks and rules. See Table 6.
Administration	Access tasks related to administration, such as managing users and roles, authentication, and licenses. See Table 7.

Note:

The Paragon Automation suite contains a built‐in element management system (EMS) that provides features that are used by one or more Paragon Automation applications. Therefore, in the sections that follow, for the menu items used to access these features, the applicable application is listed as base component.

Monitoring Sub-Menu

Table 2 displays the menu entries in the Monitoring sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 2: Monitoring Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
Network Health (Insights)	See About the Network Health Page.
Alarms and Alerts > Alarms (Insights)	See About the Alarms Page.
Alarms and Alerts > Alerts (Insights)	See About the Alerts Page.
Graphs > Charts (Insights)	See Manage the Charts Page.
Graphs > Grafana	See Grafana Overview
Jobs (base component)	See About the Jobs Page.
Logs
Action Engine	See About the Workflows Monitor Page.

Reports Sub-Menu

Table 3 displays the menu entries in the Reports sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 3: Reports Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
Reports > Health Reports (Insights)	See About the Health Reports Page.
Reports > Network > Integrity Check (Pathfinder)	See View Network Reports.
Reports > Network > LSP Discrepancy (Pathfinder)	See View Network Reports.
Reports > Maintenance > Link Oversubscription (Pathfinder)	See View Maintenance Reports.
Reports > Maintenance > Link Utilization Changes (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > LSP Path Changes (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Maintenance Simulation (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Path Delay (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Peak Interface Utilization (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Peak Link Utilization (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Peak Simulation Summary (Pathfinder)
Reports > Maintenance > Peak Tunnel Failure (Pathfinder)
Reports > Inventory (Pathfinder)	See View Inventory Reports.
Reports > Demand (Pathfinder)	View Demand Reports

Network Sub-Menu

Table 4 displays the menu entries in the Network sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 4: Network Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
Topology (Pathfinder)	See About the Topology Page.
Traffic Engineering > Bandwidth Calendar (Pathfinder)	See About the Bandwidth Calendar Page.
Traffic Engineering > Path Optimization (Pathfinder)	See About the Path Optimization Page.
Change Control Management (Pathfinder)	See About the Change Control Management Page.

Planning Sub-Menu

Table 5 displays the menu entries in the Planning sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 5: Planning Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
Paragon Planner	See Access Paragon Planner Desktop Application. See Access Paragon Planner Web Application.

Configuration Sub-Menu

Table 6 displays the menu entries in the Configuration sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 6: Configuration Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
Devices (base component)	See About the Devices Page.
Device Groups (Insights)	See About the Device Groups Page.
Network Groups (Insights)	See About the Network Groups Page.
Templates > Config Templates (base component)	See About the Configuration Templates Page.
Templates > Device Templates (base component)	See About the Device Templates Page.
Playbooks (Insights)	See Manage Playbook Instances.
Rules (Insights)	See About the Rules Page.
Resources (Insights)	About the Resources Page
Data Ingest > Settings (Insights)	See About the Ingest Settings Page.
Data Ingest > Diagnostics (Insights)	See About the Diagnostics Page.
Insights Settings (Insights)	See About the Insights Settings Page.
Summarization Profiles > Raw Data (Insights)	See About the Raw Data Summarization Profiles Page.
Summarization Profiles > Data Roll Up (Insights)	See About the Data Roll Up Summarization Profiles Page.
Device Images (base component)	See About the Images Page.
Network Settings > Topology Filter (Pathfinder)	See About the Topology Filter Page.
Network Settings > Admin Group (Pathfinder)	See Assign Names to Admin Group Bits.
Network Settings > Pathfinder (Pathfinder)	See Modify Pathfinder Settings From the Pathfinder CLI and Modify Pathfinder Settings From the GUI.
Action Engine (Insights)	See About the Workflows Page.

Administration Sub-Menu

Table 7 displays the menu entries in the Administration sub-menu and the applications to which each menu entry is applicable.

Table 7: Administration Sub-Menu Entries
Sub-menu Entry and Applicable Applications	Description
User Management > User (base component)	See About the Users Page.
User Management > Role (base component)	See About the Roles Page.
User Management > User Groups (base component)	See About the User Groups Page.
Authentication > Portal Settings (base component)	See Configure Portal Settings.
Authentication > SMTP Settings (base component)	See Configure SMTP Settings.
Authentication > LDAP Settings (base component)	See Configure LDAP Settings.
Authentication > Email Templates (base component)	See About the E-mail Templates Page.
Authentication > Identity Providers (base component)	See About the Identity Providers Page.
Audit Logs (base component)	See About the Audit Logs Page.
External EMS (base component)	See About the External EMS Page.
Task Scheduler (Pathfinder)	See About the Task Scheduler Page.
Security (Insights)	See About the Security Settings Page.
License Management (base component)	See About the License Management Page.

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