Early the week of July 4th 2013 I was working with a customer on a Juniper QFX3000-M Micro Fabric in their lab running through various setup steps while the setup steps where documented on their internal wiki. When running through the process of a recovery installation on the Director Group an error message appeared stating... » read more
In two previous blog entries I talked about leveraging ssh-agent with scripting. Below is an example script I use to run different commands on Junos based routers. This particular script is menu driven from the terminal prompt. Beyond the menu the script is non-interactive. It is plausible to write a script that will request user... » read more
In an earlier post I spoke of leveraging ssh-agent for accessing Junos based platforms. This blog post takes that earlier blog entry a step further. There are scripting benefits to using an ssh-agent but if scripting is not your concern then at the very least there is a convenience factor when accessing the Junos based... » read more
There I was with 12 J-Series routers equipped with 12 dual T1 cards each. That’s 144 T1 ports = 12 routers * (12 ports = 2 ports per PIM * 6 PIMs). I needed to quickly search the description field of each interface to find a particular circuit ID. Our standard operating policy was to... » read more
The following information was first published on 11/15/2007 at http://www.unixadmin.cc/calea/ CALEA is an acronym for, “Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act“. Enough time has passed that an update to this document is needed. The following should be considered historical. Header Draft Version: 0.1.2 Service: Flow-Tap, IPSec and Dynamic Tasking Control Protocol (DTCP) Operating System: Juniper... » read more