Software Monitoring Tools

The primary method of monitoring and troubleshooting the software, routing protocols, network connectivity, and the router hardware is to enter commands from the CLI. The CLI enables you to display information in the routing tables and routing protocol-specific data, and to check network connectivity using ping and traceroute commands.

The JUNOS software includes SNMP software, which allows you to manage routers. The SNMP software consists of an SNMP master agent and a MIB II agent, and supports MIB II SNMP version 1 traps and version 2 notifications, SNMP version 1 Get and GetNext requests, and version 2 GetBulk requests.

The software also supports tracing and logging operations so that you can track events that occur in the router—both normal router operations and error conditions—and track the packets that are generated by or pass through the router. Logging operations use a syslog-like mechanism to record systemwide, high-level operations, such as interfaces' going up or down and users' logging into or out of the router. Tracing operations record more detailed messages about the operation of routing protocols, such as the various types of routing protocol packets sent and received, and routing policy actions.