Juniper SRX – ‘The Routing Subsystem Is Not Running’
Nov17

Juniper SRX – ‘The Routing Subsystem Is Not Running’

KB ID 0001045  Problem While trying to deploy Solarwinds to monitor a Juniper SRX failover cluster, we were having no joy connecting to the management interface of the secondary/standby firewall. The management (fxp0) interface on the primary (node0) firewall we could get to OK. ] After jumping on the secondary firewall (via the console connection) we observed the following; error: the routing subsystem is not running Solution As you...

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Configure Your Firewall for SNMP
Nov17

Configure Your Firewall for SNMP

KB ID 0001034  Problem Had a requirement to let SNMP traffic though a firewall this week, I have a client that has both SolarWinds and SCOM, and they need to monitor the external Citrix ADC load balancers. For SNMP we simply need UDP ports 161 and 162 (See below) but SolarWinds maintains ‘ping’ connectivity to the monitored assets, so ICMP also needs to be open. Inbound Ports Outbound Ports Solution As my ‘weapon of...

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