Written by Douglas McPherson
Solutions Consultant at Juniper
This is part 1 of 5 of Making Scripts Robust.
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This applies to SLAX version 1.0 and higher.
Overview
This is the second in a series of best practices intended to reduce the work required to implement your Junos automation, while making the automation more robust and easier to support.
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Introduction
Now that you are running your long-lived script (see SLAX: Design Consideration for Long-Lived On-box SLAX Scripts), your next step is to ensure that it will continue to run without supervision. This will ensure you do not need to manually restart your script any time your router reboots or performs an RE switchover. In this article you will learn the following techniques you can apply that will allow your scripts to run reliably and give you time for more important tasks: