Juniper Networks J-Series manual Event Policy Overview, Configuring Event Policies

Chapter 6: Automating Network Operations and Troubleshooting

actions when specific events occur. These actions can either help you diagnose a fault or take corrective action.

This section contains the following topics:

■Event Policy Overview on page 95

■Configuring Event Policies on page 95

Event Policy Overview

In response to events, event policies can execute the following actions:

■Ignore the event—Do not generate a system log message for this event and do not process any further policy instructions for this event.

■Raise a trap—Initiate an SNMP trap to notify SNMP trap-based applications when the event occurs.

■Upload a file—Upload a file to a specified destination. You can specify a transfer delay, so that, on receipt of an event, the upload process begins after the configured transfer delay. For example, a transfer delay can ensure that a core file has been completely generated before being uploaded.

■Execute CLI operational mode commands—Execute commands when an event occurs. The output of these commands is stored in a file, which is then uploaded to a specified URL.

■Execute operation scripts—Execute operation scripts when an event occurs. The output of the operation scripts is stored in a file, which is then uploaded to a specified URL. For information about operation scripts, see “Automating Network Management and Troubleshooting with Operation Scripts” on page 92.

To view a list of the events that can be referenced in an event policy, issue the help syslog ? command:

user@host> help syslog ?
Possible completions:
<syslog-tag>	System log tag
ACCT_ACCOUNTING_FERROR	Error occurred	during file processing

ACCT_ACCOUNTING_FOPEN_ERROR Open operation failed on file

ACCT_ACCOUNTING_SMALL_FILE_SIZE Maximum file size is smaller than record size

...

For information about these events, see the JUNOS System Log Messages Reference.

Configuring Event Policies

To configure event policies:

1.Navigate to the top of the configuration hierarchy in either the J-Web or CLI configuration editor.

2.Perform the configuration tasks described in Table 45 on page 96.

3.If you are finished configuring the network, commit the configuration.

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