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JUNOS Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   JUNOS Automation Cookbook Automate network devices on Juniper's operating system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290999
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Configuring JUNOS through NETCONF 2. Working with the Junos REST API FREE CHAPTER 3. Using SLAX to Write Op Scripts 4. Event Programming 5. Automating JUNOS with PyEZ 6. Advanced Visualization Applications 7. Monitoring and Maintaining JUNOS 8. Security Applications 9. Extending JUNOS with Ansible

Making configuration changes

In this recipe, we'll create a new SLAX-based op script, config-interface.slax, and use it as a provisioning frontend command intended to assist an operator in network service provisioning on Ethernet interfaces.

We'll assume an environment similar to the following diagram: an ISP router providing an IP-layer service and connected to several Ethernet-layer access providers on different interfaces. As a service request comes in to the provisioning center, an operator is required to enter some configuration on the JUNOS router to provide the service. This typically involves allocating some resources such as IP addresses and VLAN identifiers and applying them to a provisioning template configuration.

To automate this activity, we'll create our SLAX script so that it will take a series of user parameters and apply the configuration change...

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