Juniper Mist Access-points are used. The management platform is very much straight forward.

The management platform is webbased and cloudbased and uses API’s in the core. To put it in other words; All rrm/alerting/config/management magic is managed in the cloud. And here lies the power op MistAI. Trending/Lessons learned of all customers can be applied to all customers.

Whereas Cisco likes to install a CNC (Cisco Network Collector) to gather configurations, routes tables, arp entries and such. After interpretation you as customer receive a report with items to address with in the network. With Juniper MistAI you do not have to wait for that report.

On the downside: as a consequence that MistAI stores all of the data in the cloud, data retrieval is limited to a number of days.

From a network management perpective: Information presented in MistAI is way beyond sufficient. If you want to do some advanced reporting get familiar with API, Python and purhaps Grafana.

My next post will be on the subject of a quit simple python script to retrieve AP notes of a Mist Site.