In this recipe, we'll take a fleet of JUNOS devices and outfit them with a policy to report events regarding configuration changes to a central network management host. On the central network management host, we'll operate a background daemon process that observes incoming configuration events and reports them to an interactive user-interface, it allows an operator or a NOC screen to keep track of real-time configuration changes on the network, maintaining network situational awareness:
Figure 7.1 Configuration monitoring system schematic