JUNOS Automation Cookbook: Automate network devices on Juniper’s operating system

Administer, configure, and monitor Junos in your organization

About This Book

• Get well acquainted with security and routing policies to identify the use of firewall filters.
• Learn to provide end-user authentication and protect each layer in an enterprise network.
• A recipe-based guide that will help you configure and monitor Junos OS and basic device operations.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets network engineers, developers, support personals, and administrators who are working on devices running Junos OS and are looking at automating their organisation’s operations. Some understanding about Junos would be necessary

What You Will Learn

• Start using NETCONF RPC standard and understand its usefulness in programming JUNOS
• Write SLAX scripts to respond to events in the JUNOS environment
• Automate JUNOS with PyEZ
• Deal with events in the JUNOS environment, and writing response handlers to deal with them
• Make the most of automation technologies to help with maintenance and monitoring of JUNOS
• Use the Ansible framework to extend the automation functionality of Junos

In Detail

The JUNOS Automation Cookbook is a companion guide for the complex field of automating tasks on JUNOS devices. With a foundation in industry-standrd XML, JUNOS provides an ideal environment for programmatic interation, allowing you to build upon the capabilities provided by Juniper, with your own original code.

You will begin by learning about, and setting up, the industry-standard NETCONF remote procedure call mechanisms on your device. After initial setup, you’ll walk

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Configuring JUNOS through NETCONF
Chapter 2. Working with the Junos REST API
Chapter 3. Using SLAX to Write Op Scripts
Chapter 4. Event Programming
Chapter 5. Automating JUNOS with PyEZ
Chapter 6. Advanced Visualization Applications
Chapter 7. Monitoring and Maintaining JUNOS
Chapter 8. Security Applications
Chapter 9. Extending JUNOS with Ansible