Day One: Junos Tips, Techniques, and Templates 2011 book released

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We recently released the Day One: Junos Tips, Techniques, and Templates 2011 book!

This book was developed with significant input from members of the J-Net community. Users submitted tips that they thought other users would find helpful. The editors mostly just built upon the tips that users submitted. Therefore, in a sense, this is a book that you created.

The editors learned a few things as we put this together. In fact, I've been able to put some of these tips & tricks to use already.

For example, I now regularly use “show | match <interface> | display set” (e.g. “show | match ge-0/0/0 | display set”) to show every place in the configuration that references an interface.

Also, I recently helped configure a router that will emulate a partial Internet feed for one of our certification exams. The router’s configuration includes thousands of static routes. I used the “apply-flags omit” configuration command to hide those static routes so that they would not clutter the configuration when a user displays it.

These are just two things I learned while working on this book that I am able to put to use in my regular work for Juniper. And, I think it is fair to say that all of the editors learned something useful while working on this book.

We received many more tips, techniques, and templates than we published. If we didn't publish one of your submissions, please don't feel badly. It is not necessarily a reflection of the quality of your submission. Our publisher gave us a page range and, in order to stay within the publisher’s guidelines, we could only publish a little over half of the submitted tips (by page count). So, we tried to publish the tips, techniques, and templates we felt would have the most relevance to the widest audience. (For what it is worth, the editors even rejected one of my submissions. :-) ) Save your unpublished tips & tricks for later this year. If there's enough interest, we may begin work on a 2012 edition.

The book is currently available on our website and via Amazon as both a book and eBook . We also expect it to be available as an eBook in the iTunes store soon. (Remember that J-Net subscribers can get the book for FREE from our website, while you may need to pay to acquire it from the other sources.)

Please check out the book. We hope you find it to be useful!

And, again, thank you to the many who submitted tips, as well as my fellow technical editors who spent so many hours with me reviewing submissions, and then many hours editing them! You all made this book possible!

Jonathan Looney

Lead Technical Editor