Juniper Routers Basic

commands
Display chassis and system alarms
• show chassis alarms
• show system alarms
Display environement status
• show chassis environment
This command displays temperature in
Each module and FANs status
Display interfaces descriptions
• show interfaces descriptions
Display interface status
• show interfaces ge-1/0/0
Display interface status
• You can add options ‘extensive’ and ‘details’ to get more details about
the interfaces
• Exemple : show interfaces ge-1/0/0 extensive
• You can also add find a specific parameter in the output using
• ‘| match’. Exemple : show interfaces ge-1/0/0 | match mtu
Interfaces types
• In Juniper we have different types of interfaces according to their
speed.
• In MX104, MX480 and MX960 we have :
• ge-*/*/* : represents 1 Gbps
• xe-*/*/* : represents 10 Gbps
• et-*/*/* : represents 40 Gbps or 100 Gbps
Interfaces types
• In Juniper ACX710
• Both 1G and 10G are represented by xe-*/*/*
Display signal level
• show interfaces diagnostics optics xe-2/0/0 (in optical interfaces)
Display interface configuration
• show configuration interfaces
Check if a site is configured under Router
• show interfaces descriptions | match AL5031
• This command will show vlans configured for a specified site
• ae21 is the logical interface
• .1340 is the Abis VLAN
Check a specified VLAN
• The same things when checking VLAN
• show interfaces descriptions | match 1396
VRF in Juniper
• In OA MPLS topology, O&M network is separated for example from
DCN network by VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding)
• In Juniper Vendor it’s called ‘Routing-instances’
• To check routing-instances :
• show configuration routing-instances ?
VRF in Juniper
• The configuration of each site radio need 4 VLANs (Abis, Iub, S1X2,
and O&M)
• The O&M VLAN will be assigned to VRF BSC_OM
• Abis, Iub and S1X2 VLANs will be assigned to IP_RAN VRF
• DCN VLANs (for NEC, SIAE and TN) will be assigned to DCN_OM VRF
• GB VLANs will be assigned to MEDIA_CN VRF
• SS7 VLANs will be assigned to SS7 VRF
Complet config of a site under Juniper
Check arp table under Juniper Router
• show arp interfaces ae21.1304

Or
show arp |match
First tshout ping, traceroute
• As mentioned before we are using VRFs in MPLS Routers, so to do a
ping or tracerroute toward an IP address we have to specify the
routing-instances wanted.
• Example :
• ping routing-instances IP_RAN 10.234.240.158 rapid count 100
• Send 100 packets toward IP destination with option rapid
• ping routing-instances IP_RAN 10.234.240.158  also valid
• traceroute routing-instances IP_RAN 10.234.240.158
First tshout ping, traceroute
Checking routing
In OA MPLS network, all VRFs are exchanging their routes with the
other routers.
So if I check a BSC_OM Route configured on TOT01 from AL1689, I can
get the information about the routing simply by doing :
show route 10.222.35.203 table BSC_OM.inet.0 detail

Inet.0 is IPv4 routing table in VRF BSC_OM

10.40.21.158 is the loopback of TOT01_SR2

Generally we swap .40 with .246 to get the address
Of destination router : 10.246.21.158
Check OSPF neighbor for POS
• show ospf neighbor instance POS

In some cases some ospf neighbors become in “exstart” or “exchange”

status which means a mismatch configuration in MTU between POS
Router and MPLS Router or in Transmission side.
And sometimes there is no ospf neighbor due to multicast traffic which
is probably blocked by transmission equipement (need to put POS
VLAN with forward option in multicast traffic)
Check hardware
• show chassis hardware
Check hardware
• show chassis hardware
You can check using this command if for exemple the SFP is Juniper or
not.
In the exemple we have the interface : ge-1/0/3 which is not Juniper
summary
• Those was the basics commands to be used to check config and first
tshout under Juniper Router
• I’m still available for further assistance