Automation

Is there a scripting equivalent of a rename command in the configure mode? There is a problem with using a restricted keyword for security zones, which can be manually fixed by issuing the following command:

     "rename security zones security-zone restricted-keyword to security-zone safe-name"

in configure mode, and subsequently change all the references to it. Is it possible to replicate the same rename action via script (change the zone name without disturbing the contents)?

Yes it looks like there is.  What method do you plan on using to script this?  If using NETCONF with PERL, there is a handy EZXML module that allows you to create the XML to send the Juniper device pretty easy.  It's discussed in the "Junos_XML_API_Day_One_Training_Workshop document that is packaged with the Netconf downloads for at least the more recent versions of Junos.

From that document:

The following is equivalent to the CLI command “rename vlans Blue to Green”
$vlan = $config->vlans->vlan;
$vlan->name( ‘Blue’ );
junosRename $vlan ( ‘Green’ );


Resulting XML:
<vlans>
    <vlan rename="rename" name="Green">
        <name>Blue</name>
    </vlan>
</vlans>

Thanks B2! I also stumbled across the command in my research. To answer your question, this will be an op script file written in SLAX. The following script is a smaller subset of what I came up with.

version 1.0;
ns junos = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/*/junos";
ns xnm = "http://xml.juniper.net/xnm/1.1/xnm";
ns jcs = "http://xml.juniper.net/junos/commit-scripts/1.0";
import "../import/junos.xsl";

match / {
	<op-script-results> {
    var $rename-mgmt-zone = {
        <configuration> {
            <security> {
                <zones> {
                    <security-zone rename="rename" name="mgmt"> {
                        <name> "management";
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    var $conn = jcs:open();
    var $results01 := {
        call jcs:load-configuration( $connection = $conn,
        $configuration = $rename-mgmt-zone );
    }
    if ( $results01//xnm:error ) {
        for-each( $results01//xnm:error ) {
            <output> message;
        }
    }
    var $close-results = jcs:close($conn);
	}
}