Making REST API calls to Junos with Node.js

In this recipe, we'll make an example app, rest.js, using Node.js to connect to the Junos OS REST API in order to make procedure calls. We'll use Node.js's built-in HTTPS support, augmented with some extra external modules simply for convenience. For utility value, we'll provide some command-line options to customize how the application runs.

Command line option	Description
-t xml | json | text	Specify the output format
-r rpc	Specify the actual RPC call
-c certificate	Self-signed certificate from router
-p port	HTTPS port number, default 8443
-u username	Username to authenticate with

Getting ready

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