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hello ,  

i am toying with an ex4200 in my lab and upon commiting my config i am receiving the following error: 

{master:0}[edit]root# commit check[edit]  'system'    Missing mandatory statement: 'root-authentication'error: configuration check-out failed: (missing statements)

can anyone shed some light on this?

Well that error indicates that you do not have the root user password configured.

user@host#set system root-authentication plain-text-password

Sounds like you are working on a box with the factory-default configuration loaded. In that case you must always set the root user password prior to being able to issue a commit command.

right on that was it. i had to run the ezsetup script deal to get the root password set properly. 

thanks. 

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Today when I am trying to delete one "system accounting" configuration in one device I am getting same error message as above

root@USRDLABEX42-VC2-122# commit check
[edit system]
  'accounting'
    Missing mandatory statement: 'events'
error: configuration check-out failed: (missing statements)

{master:2}[edit]

Even after setting root password.

any sugessions what could be the reason???

Your immediate response will be appresiative

Hi,

Since you are getting this message when performing a commit check, it isn't in relation to a missing root authentication password, else it would say something to that effect e.g. "Missing mandatory statement: 'root-authentication'".

[edit system]
  'accounting'
    Missing mandatory statement: 'events'
error: configuration check-out failed: (missing statements)

{master:2}[edit]

What you can do is do a comparison between your edited configuration and the previous valid configuration:

# show | compare

You should then see what has changed between the current configuration and the previous one.

Examine the differences in configuration in particular the section:

system {
    accounting {
        events {
            ...
        }
    }
}

What you may find is that you have a destination server defined within the accounting stanza, but you do not have any events defined.  You should see in the comparision of the configuration a "-" symbol beside entries that have been removed from the configuration and a "+" symbol associated with configuration entries that have been added.

The following example demonstrates an incomplete configuration, that needs to be corrected before it can commit.

# set system accounting destination tacplus

[edit]
# show | compare
[edit system]
+   accounting {
+       destination {
+           tacplus;
+       }
+       ## Warning: missing mandatory statement(s): 'events'
+   }

# set system accounting events [login change-log interactive-commands ]

<< As you can see the commit check fails as the configuration is incomplete, adding the events configuration resolves this particular issue,but still we are not complete. >>

[edit]
# show | compare
[edit system]
+   accounting {
+       events [ login change-log interactive-commands ];
+       destination {
+           tacplus;
+       }
+   }

# commit check
error: tacplus accounting configured, but no servers provided

<< tacplus is defined as a destination, but no servers configured! >>

# set system tacplus-server 10.10.1.140 port 49 secret 1234567890 secret mySharedSecret  timeout 5 single-connection

# show | compare
[edit system]
+  tacplus-server {
+      10.10.1.140 {
+          port 49;
+          secret "$9$P5F/1RSeMLCtu1EhvM7-Vbs4ZUiPfz-VqfTzCAWLx"; ## SECRET-DATA
+          timeout 5;
+          single-connection;
+      }
+  }
+  accounting {
+      events [ login change-log interactive-commands ];
+      destination {
+          tacplus;
+      }
+  }

# commit check
configuration check succeeds

[edit]

I hope that this helps.

Regards,

Andy

Thanks alot that's really helped alot 🙂