New Training: Understand Junos Configuration Datastores
In this 11-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Knox Hutchinson explores the Junos architecture of configuration datastores and rollback capabilities. Watch this new Juniper training.
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This training includes:
11 videos
57 minutes of training
You’ll learn these topics in this skill:
Understand Junos Configuration Datastores
Introducing the Candidate Datastore (and Commit)
Configure Private
Configure Exclusive
Other commit mechanisms
Comparing Candidate and Active Configurations
Rollbacks
Rescue Configurations
Archiving Configurations to Remote Servers
Encrypting Configuration Files
Summarizing Junos Candidate Datastores
Your Old Configurations Are Waiting for You When You Need Them in Junos
If you work on a network that uses Juniper devices, you’re probably familiar with committing configurations. For plenty of network administrators, the most time isn’t spent writing a configuration, but in amping yourself up to type the ‘commit’ command and assuring yourself you won’t screw the network up. Juniper devices are polite enough to check your configuration for syntax errors before committing, but they can’t possibly anticipate what’ll happen if something goes catastrophically wrong and the log shows it was your name that issued the command.
Hopefully it puts your heart at ease to learn that Junos also comes fully equipped with a ‘rollback’ command. Now, it can’t anticipate catastrophe either, but in the event that something goes wrong, it’s possible to return to a previously committed configuration so you have time to figure out what went wrong with your new config. And you don’t just have to return to the most recent config. By default, Junos stores the last 50 committed configurations, including its number, and the date and time it was committed.
Commit with a bit more confidence knowing that ‘rollback’ has your back.
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