About this document

The Event Driven Automation (EDA) User Guide describes the system's core graphical user interface (GUI) and its use to configure and manage resources. It provides some information about EDA's purpose, a brief summary of its architectural components and central concepts, and includes administration concepts and procedures for maintaining EDA and the network elements it can manage.

Many of the capabilities of EDA are provided by individual applications that can be installed, updated, or uninstalled independently of the core EDA software. For details about those capabilities, see the documentation for individual applications.

This document is intended for network technicians, administrators, operators, service providers, and others who use EDA.

Note: This manual covers the current release and may also contain some content that will be released in later maintenance loads. See the EDA Release Notes for information about features supported in each load.

Precautionary and information messages

The following are information symbols used in the documentation.

DANGER: Danger warns that the described activity or situation may result in serious personal injury or death. An electric shock hazard could exist. Before you begin work on this equipment, be aware of hazards involving electrical circuitry, be familiar with networking environments, and implement accident prevention procedures.
WARNING: Warning indicates that the described activity or situation may, or will, cause equipment damage, serious performance problems, or loss of data.
Caution: Caution indicates that the described activity or situation may reduce your component or system performance.
Note: Note provides additional operational information.
Tip: Tip provides suggestions for use or best practices.

What's new

This section lists the changes that were made in this release.

Table 1. What's new in 25.4.1
Feature Location
GUI basics
Updates basic GUI descriptions to:
  • adds a description of new Home > Platform Status page
  • updates the description of EDA Home page and menu controls
Mentions new "Hotkeys" option in the Help menu to see a list of key bindings within the EDA GUI Key bindings
Describes options for managing the main menu, including:
  • pinning the menu open
  • menu groups (Main, System Administration) and categories
  • expanding and collapsing categories (individually or collectively
  • searching the menu
 Working with the EDA menu
Describes new "bulk edits" capability Bulk edits
Namespaces
Explains that namespace selection is now limited to those namespaces to which the user has access permissions
Dashboard designer
Describes support for filters in dashboard queries
Describes new bar dashlet The bar chart dashlet
Workflows and workflow definitions
Updates descriptions of workflows, workflow definitions, and FlowEngine. Workflows and workflow definitions
Provides edactl commands to update and search for worfklows. Managing workflows with edactl
Alarms
Adds a description of the new Alarms Summary page and other updated GUI elements for alarms
Describes support for multiple parent alarms Alarms
Describes support for temporarily suppressing or acknowledging alarms (for a fixed period of time, or until a specific date/time)
Transactions
Describes changes to the Transactions GUI
Topology
Description of available overlays updated and the new Grouping selector is described. The Topologies page
EDA applications
Describes app dependencies. Apps
Security
Updates to indicate support for the use of wildcards for local group version

Rules
Updates restrictions on LDAP federated users Remote directories
Describes how to integrate an LDAP server. Configuring a federation
Updates description API issuer
Updates description Certificate key pairs for nodes