Requesting Technical Support

Technical product support is available through the Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center (JTAC). If you are a customer with an active J-Care or JNASC support contract, or are covered under warranty, and need postsales technical support, you can access our tools and resources online or open a case with JTAC.

• JTAC policies—For a complete understanding of our JTAC procedures and policies, review the JTAC User Guide located at https://www.juniper.net/customers/support/downloads/710059.pdf.
• Product warranties—For product warranty information, visit https://www.juniper.net/support/warranty/.
• JTAC Hours of Operation —The JTAC centers have resources available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Self-Help Online Tools and Resources

For quick and easy problem resolution, Juniper Networks has designed an online self-service portal called the Customer Support Center (CSC) that provides you with the following features:

• Find CSC offerings: https://www.juniper.net/customers/support/
• Search for known bugs: http://www2.juniper.net/kb/
• Find product documentation: https://www.juniper.net/techpubs/
• Find solutions and answer questions using our Knowledge Base: http://kb.juniper.net/
• Download the latest versions of software and review release notes: https://www.juniper.net/customers/csc/software/
• Search technical bulletins for relevant hardware and software notifications: https://www.juniper.net/alerts/
• Join and participate in the Juniper Networks Community Forum: https://www.juniper.net/company/communities/
• Open a case online in the CSC Case Management tool: https://www.juniper.net/cm/

To verify service entitlement by product serial number, use our Serial Number Entitlement (SNE) Tool located at https://tools.juniper.net/SerialNumberEntitlementSearch/.

Opening a Case with JTAC

You can open a case with JTAC on the Web or by telephone.

• Use the Case Management tool in the CSC at https://www.juniper.net/cm/ .
• Call 1-888-314-JTAC (1-888-314-5822 toll-free in the USA, Canada, and Mexico).

For international or direct-dial options in countries without toll-free numbers, visit us at https://www.juniper.net/support/requesting-support.html.

If you are reporting a hardware or software problem, issue the following command from the CLI before contacting support:

To provide a core file to Juniper Networks for analysis, compress the file with the gzip utility, rename the file to include your company name, and copy it to ftp.juniper.net:pub/incoming. Then send the filename, along with software version information (the output of the show version command) and the configuration, to support@juniper.net. For documentation issues, fill out the bug report form located at https://www.juniper.net/cgi-bin/docbugreport/.

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