Junos® OS For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Discovering Junos OS

Part II: Setting Up Junos OS

Part III: Deploying a Device

Part IV: Running a Junos Network

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Discovering Junos OS

Chapter 1: Junos Is Everywhere You Need to Be

Functions of a Network OS

Control functions

Service functions

Forwarding functions

Taking Advantage of One Network OS

Taking a Peek Inside the Junos OS

World-class architecture

Plain smart: The planes of Junos OS

That's not a problem: The many benefits of modular architecture

Developing Junos OS

Beyond the OS

Junos Space

Junos Pulse

Chapter 2: Jumping Into Junos

Jumpstart Instructions

Command-Line Essentials

A tale of two command modes

Knowing your location in the CLI

Saving time with typing shortcuts

Getting help

Defining How You Want Devices to Work

Understanding the configuration process

Creating and editing the configuration

Committing your configuration

Going Back to a Prior Configuration

Rolling back to a past configuration

Verifying the restored configuration

This Way to the Exit

Chapter 3: Operating Your Network with Junos

Exploring Operational Mode

Understanding the command hierarchy

Recognizing common utility commands

Displaying Output

Choosing your format

Tell me more

Using the pipe command tool

Using Onboard Instrumentation Tools

Monitoring the operations of your network

Logging and tracing ...