Juniper SRX Cluster (Active / Standby)
SRX Cluster KB ID 0000990 Problem I’ve had very little exposure to JUNOS and Juniper equipment, and later in the year I have to deploy some for a client in a failover cluster. So I had a good look round on the Internet, and found loads of good blog posts and KB articles like this one. The problem is they are all geared to setting up a cluster, they ASSUME you then know about security zones, how to add default routes, and setup...
Juniper SRX Alarm Light Lit
SRX Alarm Light KB ID 0000993 Problem I noticed the alarm light was lit amber on an SRX240 Juniper firewall. Solution : SRX Alarm Light This will not serve as a solution to every alarm on the SRX, but it should point you where to look, and show you how to resolve the two problems I identified on my firewall. View SRX Alarm Light Status in J-Web The status is displayed on the ‘Dashboard’ tab, here you can see I’ve got...
Juniper SRX – Setting the Default Static Route
KB ID 0001008 Problem It takes me seconds to do this on an ASA, on every occasion I’ve had to do the same on a Juniper firewall I’ve had to research how to do it again. Here I’m setting up the ‘default’ route to the Internet, but the syntax is the same for setting up any static route. Solution 1. Connect to the firewall either by console cable or via SSH, go to CLI mode then configuration mode....