This Week: Applying Junos Automation

BOOK DESCRIPTION

All three Day One Automation Guides in a single PDF book! Also includes a copy and paste edition for obtaining the book’s scripts.

As you work with the Junos operating system, you will build a knowledge reservoir of best practices and lessons learned, a body of intelligence that can be available 24x7 to help your network run optimally. Junos automation allows you to automate your accumulated intelligence through scripts that automatically control Junos devices according to your desired best practices. This book demonstrates how to implement this inherent potential in the Junos operating system.

Previously published as three separate Day One guides, This Week: Applying Junos Automation now combines Junos operation, event, and configuration automation techniques into a single, comprehensive volume.

• Learn to use reference scripts from this book and Juniper’s script library; Interpret the XML data structures used by Junos devices; communicate with Junos through the Junos XML API; ease how you write XML data structures using the SLAX XML abbreviated format; and, create your own customized operation scripts.
• Understand the difference between an op script and an event script; identify potential events that could be automated; build the needed event policy to match desired events and conditions; and, create your own customized event scripts.
• Understand the role of and possible uses for commit scripts; provide feedback as part of the commit process through warning or syslog messages; halt the commit process with error messages; alter the configuration through commit scripts; and, create your own customized commit scripts.