Add Anycast Group Tunnels

You can add a segment routing tunnel with an anycast group as the destination, so that the traffic is routed to any one of the nodes that is part of the anycast group.

To add a segment routing tunnel with an anycast group as the destination:

Select Network > Topology.

The Topology page is displayed with the topology map at the center and the network information table at the bottom of the page.
In the Anycast Group tab, select Provisioning > Add Anycast Group Tunnel.
The Add Anycast Group Tunnel page appears.
Complete the configuration on each tab according to the guidelines in Table 1.

Note:
Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.
(Optional) You can click Preview Path at the bottom of the page to see the path drawn on the topology map.

Click Add to add the tunnel.

A confirmation message appears on the top of the page, indicating that a provision anycast tunnel request was successfully created:

If you have the Auto-approve permission assigned to your user role, the request is automatically approved and deployed on the devices.
If you don't have Auto-approve permission, the request must be manually approved and then,deployed by a user having the required permissions. See About the Change Control Management Page.

The tunnel then appears in Tunnel tab of the network information table (in the Topology page).

Table 1: Fields on the Add Anycast Group Tunnel Page
Field	Description
Properties
Provisioning Method	From the list, select one of the following methods to be used to provision the tunnel: NETCONF (default)—The tunnel is statically provisioned and the associated configuration statements appear in the router configuration file. Upon provisioning, this tunnel is added as a device-controlled tunnel. PCEP (Path Computation Element Protocol)—The tunnel is initiated by the path computation element (PCE) and the associated configuration statements do not appear in the router configuration file. Upon provisioning, this tunnel is added as a PCE-initated tunnel. Note: For IOS-XR routers, NETCONF-based tunnel provisioning has the same capabilities as PCEP-based tunnel provisioning.
Provision Type	Displays the type of tunnel to be provisioned—SR (segment routing).
Name	Specify a unique name for the tunnel. You can use any number of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores.
Node A	From the list, select the node that you want to use as the ingress node.
Node Z	Do one of the following: If you want the traffic to be routed to a single node, select that node as the egress node. If you want the traffic to be routed to one of the nodes in an anycast group, click the toggle button (Select destination as anycast group) and select the anycast group from the list. By default, this toggle button is disabled.
Admin Status	The Path Computation Server (PCS) uses the administration status of the tunnel to decide whether to route or provision, or both route and provision the tunnel. If the tunnel is routed, no traffic flows through the tunnel and its operational status is Up. If the tunnel is provisioned, traffic flows through the tunnel and its operational status is Active. Select one of the following options as the administration status: Up—If you select this option, the PCS routes and provisions the tunnel. Planned—If you select this option, the PCS routes the tunnel and reserves capacities for the tunnel. However, the PCS doesn’t provision the tunnel. Shutdown—If you select this option, the PCS neither routes nor provisions the tunnel. The tunnel is maintained in the datastore and is associated with a persist state so that the tunnel can be brought back up at a later time, if required.
Path Type	From the list, select primary, secondary, or standby as the path type.
Path Name	Specify the name for the path.
Planned Bandwidth	Specify the planned bandwidth (along with valid units, with no space between the bandwidth and units) for the tunnel. If you specify a value without units, bps is applied. Valid units are: B or b M or m K or k G or g Examples: 50M, 1000b, 25g.
Bandwidth Sizing	Note: This option is displayed only when you select PCEP as the provisioning method. Click the toggle button to enable or disable (default) bandwidth sizing for the tunnel. If you enable bandwidth sizing, the tunnel is included in the periodic re-computation of planned bandwidth based on aggregated tunnel traffic statistics.
Adjustment Threshold (%)	Note: This option is available only when you enable bandwidth sizing. Specify the sensitivity (in %) of the automatic bandwidth adjustment. The new planned bandwidth is only considered if it differs from the existing bandwidth by the value of this setting or more. The default value is 10%.
Minimum Bandwidth	Note: This option is available only when you enable bandwidth sizing. Specify the minimum planned bandwidth (along with valid units, with no space between the bandwidth and units) for the tunnel. If you specify a value without units, bps is applied. If the new planned bandwidth is less than the minimum setting, the PCE signals the tunnel with the minimum bandwidth. However, if the new planned bandwidth falls in between the maximum and minimum settings, The PCE signals the tunnel with the new planned bandwidth. The valid units are: B or b M or m K or k G or g Examples: 50M, 1000b, 25g.
Maximum Bandwidth	Note: This option is available only when you enable bandwidth sizing. Specify the maximum planned bandwidth (along with valid units, with no space between the bandwidth and units) for the tunnel. If you specify a value without units, bps is applied. If the new planned bandwidth is greater than the maximum setting, the PCE signals the tunnel with the maximum bandwidth. However, if the new planned bandwidth falls in between the maximum and minimum settings, the PCE signals the tunnel with the new planned bandwidth. The valid units are: B or b M or m K or k G or g Examples: 50M, 1000b, 25g.
Minimum Variation Threshold	Note: This option is available only when you enable bandwidth sizing. Specify the sensitivity of the automatic bandwidth adjustment when the new planned bandwidth is compared to the current planned bandwidth. Default: Zero. The new planned bandwidth is only considered if the difference is greater than or equal to the value of this setting. Because it is not a percentage, this can be used to prevent small fluctuations from triggering unnecessary bandwidth changes. If both the adjustment threshold and the minimum variation threshold are greater than zero, both settings are taken into consideration. In that case, the new planned bandwidth is considered if the percentage difference is greater than or equal to the adjustment threshold, and, the actual difference is greater than or equal to the minimum variation.
Color Community	Note: This field is available only for segment routing tunnels. Assign a color for the segment routing tunnel that can be used to map traffic on the tunnel.
Use Penultimate Hop as Signaling Address	Note: This field is available only for segment routing tunnels. Click the toggle button to enable the PCS to use the penultimate hop as the signaling address for Egress Peer Engineering (EPE). If you haven’t specified a color community, the setting applies to all traffic. If you’ve specified a color community, the setting applies to traffic in that color community.
Setup	Specify the setup priority for the tunnel traffic. Priority levels range from 0 (highest priority) through 7 (lowest priority). The default is 7, which is the standard MPLS tunnel definition in Junos OS. Based on the setup priority, the PCE determines whether a new tunnel can be established, by preempting an existing tunnel. The existing tunnel can be preempted if the setup priority of the new tunnel is higher than that of the existing tunnel and the preemption releases enough bandwidth for the new tunnel.
Hold	Specify the hold priority for the tunnel traffic. Priority levels range from 0 (highest priority) through 7 (lowest priority). The default is 7, which is the standard MPLS tunnel definition in Junos OS. Based on the hold priority, the PCE determines whether the tunnel can be preempted or not. If the hold priority for an tunnel is higher, it is unlikely for the tunnel to be preempted.
Planned Metric	Specify the static tunnel metric. The PCE uses this metric to route the tunnel instead of allowing the router itself to choose a path.
Routing Method	From the list, select a routing method for the tunnel to specify whether the PCE should compute and provision the path for the tunnel or not: The available options are: routeByDevice—This is the default routing method when a PCC-controlled tunnel is created or learned by the PCE. For this method, The PCE does not compute and provision a path. This method is appropriate for three types of tunnels: RSVP TE PCC-controlled tunnels, segment routing PCEP-based tunnels, and segment routing NETCONF-based tunnels. Other routing methods (default, delay, adminWeight, constant, distance, ISIS, OSPF)—When a PCC-controlled tunnel has a routing method that is not routeByDevice, the PCE computes and provisions the path as a strict explicit route when provisioning the tunnel. The tunnel’s existing explicit route might be modified to a PCE-computed strict explicit route. For example, a loose explicit route specified by you or learned from the router would be modified to a strict explicit route.
Binding SID	Note: This field is available only for segment routing tunnels with NETCONF as the provisioning type. Specify the numerical binding SID label value. This value then becomes the label that represents the path defined by the hops you specify on the Path tab (which are the hops that make up the private forwarding adjacency link). Range: 1000000 to 1048575.
Constraints
Admin Group Include All	From the list, select one or more admin group bits for the tunnel to traverse links that include all of the admin groups specified in this field. The maximum selections allowed is 32. The admin group bits are mapped to meaningful names, such as colors (configured from the Configuration > Network > Admin Group page), so that you can easily differentiate the different traffic routes in the display and also use coloring constraints to influence the path of the tunnel.
Admin Group Include Any	From the list, select one or more admin group bits for the tunnel to traverse links that include at least one of the admin groups specified in this field. The maximum selections allowed is 32.
Admin Group Exclude	From the list, select one or more admin group bits for the tunnel to traverse links that do not include any of the admin groups specified in this field. The maximum selections allowed is 32.
Maximum Delay	Specify the maximum delay (in milliseconds) for the tunnel, which is used as a constraint for tunnel rerouting.
Maximum Hop	Specify an integer value for the maximum number of hops that the tunnel can traverse.
Maximum Cost	Specify an integer value for the maximum cost to be associated with the tunnel.
Advanced
Count	Specify the number of parallel tunnels to be created between two endpoints. These tunnels share the same design parameters as specified in the Constraints tab. Note: Creating parallel tunnels in this manner is different from provisioning multiple tunnels (Provisioning > Multiple Tunnels) where you configure Design parameters separately for each tunnel.
Delimiter	Note: This field is available only when the count value is greater than 1. Specify a delimiter value, which can consist of alphanumeric characters and special characters except space, comma (,), and semicolon (;). This value is used in the automatic naming of parallel tunnels that share the same design parameters. The PCE names the tunnels using the name you enter in the Properties tab and appends the delimiter value plus a unique numerical value beginning with 1 Example: myTunnel_1, myTunnel_2, and so on.
Description	Specify a comment or description for the tunnel for your reference.
IP Z	From the list, select the IP address for Node Z (that is, the egress node). The options in the list are populated based on the Node Z that you selected in the Properties tab in this page.
Symmetric Pair Group	Specify a unique name for the symmetric pair group. You can use any number of alphanumeric and special characters. Tunnels with the same group name (as specified in this field) are considered part of a symmetric pair group. You create a symmetric pair group so that the tunnel from the ingress node to the egress node follows the same path as the tunnel from the egress node to the ingress node. When there are two tunnels with the same end nodes but in opposite directions, the path routing uses the same set of links. For example, suppose Tunnel1 source to destination is NodeA to NodeZ, and Tunnel2 source to destination is NodeZ to NodeA. Selecting Tunnel1-Tunnel2 as a symmetric pair group places both tunnels along the same set of links. Tunnels in the same group are paired based on the source and destination node.
Create Symmetric Pair	Note: This option is displayed only when you specify a symmetric pair group. Click the toggle button to enable the creation of a symmetric pair. This option allows you to create the symmetric pair in the same operation as creating the tunnel.
Diversity Group	Specify the name of a group of tunnels to which this tunnel belongs, and for which diverse paths are desired.
Diversity Level	From the list, select the level of diversity for the tunnel: Default—No diversity level will be applied. Site—Two paths don’t intersect at any given site (aside from the source and destination). Site diversity is the strongest as it includes SRLG and link diversity. SRLG (Shared Risk Link Group)—Two paths don't intersect at any of the group’s links or nodes (aside from the source and destination). SRLG diversity includes link diversity. Link—Two paths don’t intersect at any given link. Link diversity is the weakest.
Slice Include All	Specify one or more topology slice IDs for the tunnel to be routed over links and nodes, that are tagged with all the slice IDs specified in this field.
Slice Include Any	Specify one or more topology slice IDs for the tunnel to be routed over links and nodes, that are tagged with atleast one of the slice IDs specified in this field.
Slice Exclude	Specify one or more topology slice IDs for the tunnel to be routed over links and nodes, that are not tagged with any of the slice IDs specified in this field.
Route on Protected IP Link	Click to enable the toggle button if you want the route to use protected IP links as much a possible.
Custom Attributes	Click the Add icon (+) to specify provisioning properties not directly supported by the GUI. For example, you cannot specify a hop-limit when you provision a tunnel. However, you can add hop-limit as a custom attribute. At the edit > protocols > mpls > label-switched-path hierarchy level in the NETCONF template file, you must add the statements needed to provision with the property you are adding. If the property is present with the defined value, then the provisioning statement is executed.
Path
Routing Path Type	From the list, select the type of routing path for the tunnel: Dynamic—Allows the PCE to compute a path without imposing any path restrictions. Required—Prevents the PCE from using any other path for this tunnel. If the required path is not viable and available, the tunnel is down and the PCE does not perform computation to look for an alternate path. Preferred—Instructs the PCE to use this path over any other, as long as it is viable and available. If it is not viable and available, the PCE computes an alternate path.
Add Hop	This option available only if the routing path type is Preferred or Required. Click the Add (+) icon or click Add Hop. From the list, select an option as the first hop between node A and node Z. In addition, click the toggle button next to this field to specify whether the hop is strict or loose: If you specify the hop as strict, the tunnel must take a direct path from the previous router to this router. If you specify the hop as loose, the tunnel can take any path to reach this router; the PCE chooses the best path. To add additional hops, click the + icon again. You can add a maximum of 37 hops. Note: When specifying a loose hop, you can choose from all links in the network. When specifying a loose hop for a Required path, anycast group SIDs are also available for selection.
Schedule
Plan	No Schedule—(Default) tunnel provisioning is not scheduled (that is, tunnels are provisioned immediately upon submission of the provisioning request). Once—In the Start and End fields that appear, specify the start date and time and end date and time at which you want to provision the tunnels. The tunnels are provisioned once at the specified date and time. Recurring Daily—Specify the start and end dates and start and end times in the Start Date, End Date, Start Time, and End Time fields that appear. The tunnels are provisioned daily.