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Installation and Upgrade Instructions
This section contains the procedures to install and upgrade Junos Space Security Director and Log Collector.
Installing and Upgrading Security Director Release 17.2R1
Junos Space Security Director Release 17.2R1 is supported only on Junos Space Network Management Platform Release 17.2R1 that can run on the following devices:
JA2500
Junos Space Virtual Appliance
Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) server installed on CentOS Release 7.2.1511
In Junos Space Security Director Release 17.2R1, a single image installs Security Director, Log Director, and the Security Director Logging and Reporting modules. All three applications are installed when you install the Security Director Release 17.2R1 image.
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From Junos Space Security Director Release 17.2R1, Log Collector
version information is stored in |
![]() | Note: Integrated Log Collector on a JA2500 appliance or Junos Space virtual appliance supports only 500 eps. |
For more information about installing and upgrading Security Director Release 17.2R1, see Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide.
Adding Security Director Log Collector Node in Security Director Release 17.2R1
For distributed Log Collector deployment, you must add only Log Receiver node. You can add the node directly to Security Director using admin credentials, as in the case of the JSA node. For security reasons, non-root credentials are used to add a node.
![]() | Caution: For Security Director Log Collector, provide the default credentials: Username is admin and Password is juniper123. You must change the default password by using the Log Collector CLI command configureNode.sh as shown in Figure 1. |
Figure 1: Change Password

For JSA, provide the admin credentials that is used to login to the JSA console.
For information about how to add the Log Collector node to Security Director, see Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide.