"Unspecified Technology" in vManage (Viptela) Policy Performance Portal Dashboards

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management
• Virtual Network Assurance

Issue/Introduction

"Unspecified Technology" in vManage (Viptela) Portal Dashboards.

Policy Performance Portal dashboards display "Unspecified Technology" and no data is provided within these views.

Environment

Dx NetOps Portal 

CA Virtual Network Assurance

Resolution

For application/SLA path data, when you provision tunnels in a Viptela network, you must create policies that define the SLA classes for the different types of traffic. 

If no sla-class policies are defined, VNA can discover tunnels, but cannot create application/SLA paths.

VNA Swagger

curl -k -X 'GET' 'https://<vna-host>:8443/vna/rest/v1/inventory/stats' -H 'accept: application/json' > get_stats.json

There are no policies defined on this Viptela:

"Default_Domain": {
    "entityTypeCounts": {
      "CONTROLLER": 1,
      "LOCATION": 6,
      "MANAGEMENT_SYSTEM": 1,
      "NETWORK_INTERFACE": 94,
      "ORCHESTRATOR": 1,
      "ROUTER": 6,
      "SITE": 9,
      "TECHNOLOGY_GROUP": 3,
      "TUNNEL": 84,
      "USER_DOMAIN": 1
    },

There are policies defined on this Viptela:

{
  "Viptela-Sim-1234": {
    "entityTypeCounts": {
      "CONTROLLER": 3,
      "LOCATION": 5,
      "MANAGEMENT_SYSTEM": 1,
      "NETWORK_INTERFACE": 75,
      "ORCHESTRATOR": 1,
      "POLICY": 9,
      "POLICY_GROUP": 9,
      "ROUTER": 10,
      "SITE": 6,
      "TECHNOLOGY_GROUP": 3,
      "TUNNEL": 50,
      "USER_DOMAIN": 1
    },