This two-day course provides the opportunity for students to develop the knowledge and skills required to configure, operate, monitor, and maintain Paragon Active Assurance deployments.

The goal of the Paragon Active Assurance course is to give students hands-on experience with the tools they require to effectively use and manage Paragon Active Assurance Control Center and the Test Agents.

The Paragon Active Assurance for Automated WAN (PAAW) course is an intermediate level course.

Relevant Juniper Product

• Paragon Active Assurance

• Deploy and administer Paragon Active Assurance.

• Monitor and test network performance using Paragon Active Assurance.

• Integrate Paragon Active Assurance into OSS.

• Test site activation using Paragon Active Assurance.

Networking architects and operators, system engineers, DevOps, and IT professionals, anyone individual

responsible for identifying, understanding, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in service provider networks.

• Basic TCP/IP skills

• Attendance of the Introduction to Paragon Active Assurance (IPAA) course prior to attending this

class

• Basic knowledge of network routing is recommended

Day 1

Course Introduction

PAA Solution Components

• PAA Overview

• Passive and Active Monitoring

• Use Cases

Test Agent Architecture

• Test Agents Overview

• Appliance

• Application

Lab 1: Test Agent Registration

Tests

• Overview

• Types of Tests

• Test Status

Lab 2: Site Activation Testing

Day 2

Monitors

• Overview

• Types of Monitors

• Monitor Status

Lab 3: Continuous Network Performance Monitoring

Testing and Monitoring Templates

• Overview

• Types of Templates

Lab 4: Working with Templates

Getting Ready with REST APIs

• Overview

• Main Concepts

• SWAGGER tool

• Use Cases

Lab 5: Automation via REST APIs

Management and Integration with OSS

• Inventory

• Alarms

• SNMP

• Applications

• OSS Integration

The following Appendices be covered, if time permits, and are requested by the delegate/s prior to booking:

Appendix A: NETCONF and YANG APIs

• NETCONF

• YANG

Appendix B: Lifecycle Management

• Overview

• Fundamentals for the PAA Installation

• Service Configuration

• Monitoring System Health

• System Troubleshooti