Day One Books Archive

Advanced IPv6 Configuration

This is the second book in the Junos Networking Technologies Series on IPv6. The first book, Exploring IPv6, introduced the basics of configuring an IPv6 enabled LAN: interface addressing, static routes, neighbor discovery, and IGP routing. Now you’re ready to complete the configuration and testing tasks to enable BGP routing in your network.

Advanced Junos CoS Troubleshooting Cookbook

In large Enterprise and Service Provider networks, dropped packets can quickly escalate into large scale issues, and to fix these CoS issues you have to know how and where to troubleshoot them. Here are eight Junos CoS issues and the how-to steps to fix them.

Applying Junos Automation

As you work with the Junos® operating system, you will build a knowledge reservoir of best practices and lessons learned, a body of intelligence that can be available 24x7 to help your network run optimally. Junos automation allows you to automate your accumulated intelligence through scripts which automatically control Junos devices according to your desired best practices. This book demonstrates how to implement this inherent potential in the Junos operating system.

Building Containers with Kubernetes and Contrail

Learn Kubernetes fundamentals and understand its integration with Juniper Contrail®. “A must read for anyone exploring how to integrate Contrail’s virtual networking into Kubernetes containerized platform.

Configuring Junos Policies and Firewall Filters

This book shows how the savvy network administrator can make unified and robust efficiencies using two similar tools from their Junos toolbox.

Contrail DPDK vRouter

Let’s do SDN and use the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) as an open source data plane for Contrail/Tungsten Fabric vRouter. Two CTO’s provide back cover quotes for this one: 200 pages, 100 illustrations, four very senior author-engineers.

Contrail Networking Up and Running With Openstack

Create virtual networks and deploy virtual machines using Contrail Networking by following the instructions and insights of JTAC engineers. It’s the perfect Day One book to get you up and out of your routine to build your first cloud.

Data Center Fundamentals

Learn all the basics of data centers, from components to cabling to controllers, and how Juniper products scale that technology. It’s day one, and you have a data center to build.

For additional information on the content covered in this archived Day One book, see Data Center Fabric Blueprint Architecture Components.

Deploy Cloud-Native Contrail Networking as a CNI For Kubernetes

This Day One shows you how to deploy CN2 as a container network interface (CNI) in Kubernetes (K8s). Step-by-step you'll learn how to deploy applications and add distributed clusters.

Deploying Basic QoS

This book gives you an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) concepts and then provides tools and techniques from the Junos operating system toolbox to implement a comparatively simple class-of-service configuration. It’s a start, it works, and it can be done in your test bed on day one.

Deploying BGP Multicast VPNs, 2nd Edition

This book assumes that the reader has at least some experience with IP/MPLS architectures, including Multiprotocol BGP and IGPs. You are not expected to be an expert in multicast as the basic concepts are revisited in the book, but if you are already familiar with BGP/MPLS IP VPNs, you will find this book easier to read.

Exploring IPv6

When deploying IPv6, you can gain a great advantage by using Juniper Networks high-end routers because IPv6 has been implemented directly in the ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). Having IPv6 compatibility in the hardware means that IPv6 packets can be forwarded at line rate – unlike many competing routers.

JSA Up and Running

Administrators wanting SIEM solutions now have a single set of instructions on how to quickly deploy the Juniper Secure Analytics virtual and physical devices. 300 pages. 400+ screen captures. Get up and running in one book.

Juniper Ambassadors’ Cookbook for 2014

This second cookbook from the Ambassadors contains eighteen use-case solutions, complete with configurations. From interop tips in mixed-vendor networks, to optimizing network routing, switching, and security performance, you’ll find this cookbook useful in the lab as well as in full-production networks.

Juniper Ambassadors’ Cookbook for 2017

The Juniper Ambassadors take on some of the top support issues and provide clear-cut solutions and frank discussions on how to keep things running in their new Day One cookbook. The recipes provide quick and tested solutions to everyday networking administration issues.

Juniper Ambassadors’ Cookbook for 2018

What’s on the minds of the Juniper Ambassadors in 2018? It’s EVPN, automating with SaltStack, ELS and the EX Series, GRE Tunnels, VLANs, FBF routing, and more EVPN.

Juniper Ambassadors' Cookbook for 2019

How-to solutions and network recipes by the community dedicated to up and running Juniper reliability. "There’s a great mix of traditional CLI-based implementation as well the new world of automation and network reliability engineering.

Juniper Ambassadors’ Cookbook for Enterprise

Juniper Ambassadors take on some of the top support issues and provide clear-cut solutions on how to keep things running. From creating an aggregate link between a Juniper and Cisco switch. to connecting two networks using a SRX Series, this book provides solutions to everyday issues.

Junos Automation Reference for SLAX 1.0

This book covers writing SLAX scripts specifically for the Junos operating system. The SLAX language can be used to perform generic XML transformations in other operation systems as well, but the capabilities and caveats discussed in this book are based on the assumption that the SLAX script is being processed as a Junos on-box script and may not apply in those other situations.

Junos Fusion Data Center Up and Running

Everything you need to know to deploy Junos Fusion Data Center: how to architect, manage, and operate it, and how it compares to other fabric technologies. Bridge the gap between theory and production networks today.

Junos Tips, Techniques, and Templates 2011

We went to the Junos user community and asked them for their best and brightest Junos tips and techniques. The result, published here for the first time, is not only a fantastic collection of Junos solutions, but expert annotation and commentary that provides helpful advice on when and how to deploy those solutions.

MACSec Up and Running

Encrypt traffic between devices such as your EX, QFX, PTX, and MX Series platforms with MACsec.

For additional information on the content covered in this archived Day One book, see Configuring MACSec.

Mastering Junos Automation Programming

This book provides all the information you need to quickly harness the power of Junos scripting and automation. It teaches the reader SLAX, a friendlier, more concise alternative to XSLT, through clear instruction, countless example scripts, and helpful comparisons to other common programming languages and concepts. All the while the authors provide best practices and valuable tips for overcoming common obstacles when scripting with SLAX.

Migrating EIGRP to OSPF

OSPF is the most ubiquitous IGP in use today by enterprise, government, and education networks because it provides the best blend of knowledgeable engineers, equipment interoperability, and networking scale. So migrating from EIGRP to OSPF isn’t a question of why. It’s a question of when.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

This book shows you how to identify the root cause of a variety of problems and advocates a common approach to isolate the problems with a best practice set of questions and tests. It includes the instrumentation to assist in root cause identification and the configuration know-how to solve both common and severe problems before they even begin.

Navigating the Junos XML Hierarchy

This book provides a clear and concise understanding of the XML hierarchy with many examples that help lay a solid foundation about the basics of XML, it’s hierarchy, and mechanics. It will expand your thinking about what Junos automation can do for you and how to efficiently apply it in your own organization.

NorthStar Controller Up and Running

The book introduces readers to the Juniper NorthStar Controller by focusing on the discovery and visualization of IP/MPLS networks including the ability to visualize the paths different LSPs take on the network, monitoring the status and utilization of the network in real-time, and, modeling the impact of network changes, among other use cases.

A Packet Walkthrough on the M, MX, and T Series

One of the most exciting advantages of ping is its ability to uncover details of the internal architecture of M/MX/T-Series routers. In this book, ping becomes a tourist guide that takes you on a packet walkthrough and provides you with a new perspective of the device architecture.

QoS for IOS Engineers

Use this book to optimize the QoS functionality of your new network.

Securing the Routing Engine on M, MX, and T Series

Apply the powerful policy tools of Junos essential to protecting your device and your whole network with expert, step-by-step techniques.

This reprint from OpenContrail.org provides an overview of OpenContrail, the Juniper technology that sits at the intersection of networking and open source orchestration projects. The book will help network engineers understand how to leverage emerging SDN technologies, and help developers to begin to create flexible network applications.

Using Ethernet VPNs for Data Center Interconnect

EVPN is a new standards-based technology that addresses the networking challenges presented by interconnected data centers. Follow the POC Labs topology for testing EVPN starting with all the configurations, moving on to verification procedures, and concluding with high availability testing. It's all here for you to learn and duplicate.

Using JSNAP to Automate Network Verifications

To reduce the risks of getting into an unpleasant situation after a change, many engineers have developed procedures and tools to verify their networks. The good news is that there is JSNAP – an automation tool that details pre- and post-verifications.

vMX Up and Running, 2nd Edition

This Day One book on vMX provides a detailed and fun walkthrough of several scenarios, equipping you with a foundation to start building your own networks and labs. It’s smart and to the point.

vMX Up and Running, 1st Edition

Get the vMX up and running in your lab on Ubuntu’s Linux. Then build a sample topology and learn how to scale it. It’s fast and it’s easy with the vMX.

vSRX on KVM

Configure the vSRX in a KVM environment and build lab topologies on day one. "Day One: vSRX on KVM is for network administrators, network architects, or engineers interested in quickly starting to use the Juniper Networks vSRX Virtual Firewall.

For additional information on the content covered in this archived Day One book, see Understand vSRX Virtual Firewall with KVM.