[j-nsp] Regular maintenance advice

[Adam Leff]

If you're running the 10.4 variant that has the dual boot partitions, no
USB key is needed.

Just change your command to: show system snapshot media internal

~Adam

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+junipernsp at eintellego.net> wrote:

> Excellent Julian.
>
> btw.  Doing the show system snapshot on a an EX4200 stack just showed me:
>
> user at host> show system snapshot
> error: external media missing or invalid
>
> I'm guessing a USB key should be installed by default for this?  or you
> think a switch may not need it?
>
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 00:41, Julien Goodwin <jgoodwin at studio442.com.au
> >wrote:
>
> > On 04/04/12 00:28, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > > 1. Show log messages
> > >
> > >      a.     Look at last few days for anything suspicious
> > >
> > >           i.     Interfaces flapping
> >
> > "show int | match flap" is your friend. Also chassisd
> >
> > > 2. Show interfaces terse
> > >
> > >      a.     Anything down that shouldn’t be?
> >
> > Also anything *up* that shouldn't be.
> >
> > If you can be strict about it you can say anything but up/up and
> > down/down are problems.
> >
> > > 3. Show chassis alarm
> > >
> > >      a.     Look for any alarm information
> >
> > If you have any EX (at least, can't remember for SRX/J, not for M/...)
> > also add:
> >
> > show system alarms
> >
> > (It's sad how few people know about this)
> >
> > > 4. Show system snapshot
> > >
> > >      a.     If older than 1 week then – ‘Request system snapshot’
> >
> > er, why?
> > Do a snapshot on OS upgrade, shouldn't be needed after that.
> >
> > Verifing "commit sync" is default is also good.
> >
> > > 5. Show system uptime
> > >
> > >      a.     As expected?
> > >
> > > 6. Show system storage
> > >
> > >      a.     Confirm / (root) disk space is not getting full.
> >
> >
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