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Access the Paragon Automation GUI

Before you access the GUI, activate your account.

  1. Click the Set your password link in the activation mail.

    The Set Password page appears.

  2. In the Password field, enter your password.

    The password should be between 6 to 20 characters and must be a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.

  3. In the Confirm Password field, enter the password again for confirmation. .

  4. Click OK.

    An e-mail with the subject Paragon Account Password Changed is sent to you.

Your account is now activated. You can access the Paragon Automation GUI by using the URL and the username present in the activation mail and the password you set.

After an account is created for a user in Paragon Automation, an activation e-mail with a subject Paragon Account Created is sent to the user if SMTP is configured on Paragon Automation. The activation e-mail contains the URL to access the Paragon Automation GUI, the username and the Set your password link to set your password. Your user account is activated only after you click the Set your password link and set your password.

If SMTP is not configured, you will be intimated about the URL to access Paragon Automation, your username and password, either verbally or through an e-mail by the system administrator who manages the Paragon Automation installation.

To access the Paragon Automation GUI:

  1. Click the URL of the Paragon Automation installation.

    The Paragon Automation Login page appears.

  2. Enter your username and password.

    Username is case insensitive.

    On successful authentication, the Dashboard page appears. The navigation menu on the left-hand side of every page allows you to access different objects and perform different tasks easily. The top-level menu items in the navigation menu are listed in Table 1.

    You need a license to activate the graphical user interface (GUI). Navigate to Administration > License Management to add a license. After you successfully add a license for a component (Paragon Insights, Paragon Pathfinder, or Paragon Planner), you can see the related GUI pages. The availability of features in Paragon Insights, Paragon Pathfinder, and Paragon Planner is based on the license you have installed.

    The Paragon Automation icon in the top-left corner of the GUI is updated depending on the license that you add. When you log in to the Paragon Automation GUI for the first time, the Paragon Automation icon appears without the names of the three components below it. The GUI displays the name of a component only after you add a license for that component. For example, after you add a Paragon Insights license, the name Insights appears below the Paragon Automation icon. After you add a license for Paragon Pathfinder, the names Pathfinder and Planner are also displayed.

Table 1 lists the top level menu items in the Paragon Automation GUI.

Table 1: Paragon Automation GUI Menu

Menu

Description

Favorites

Lists the pages that you marked as favorite. You do not have any listings when you log in to Paragon Automation for the first time.

Dashboard

Displays a variety of status and statistics information related to the network as widgets. These widgets are displayed in a carousel, that you can arrange.

Monitoring

View network health report, alerts and alarms, scheduled jobs, jobs that are initiated and completed, inventory reports, reports about link utilization changes, peak interface utilization and many more reports.

Network

View and manage the network topology, and perform tasks such as configuring tunnels, optimizing paths, and many more tasks.

Planning

Access the Paragon Planner desktop application to simulate your network.

Configuration

Configure devices, device groups, network groups, configuration templates, device templates, playbooks for analytics, upload device images, and many more objects.

Administration

Perform administration tasks such as configuring security, SMTP settings, LDAP settings, managing users, roles, user groups, licenses, and many more tasks.

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