Monitoring Juniper SRX and J Series Devices

Overview

TOS Aurora monitors SRX and J Series devices for policy revision changes.

To see which TOS features are supported for your device, review the feature support table.

Prerequisites

Before you add the device to TOS Aurora:

SecureTrack and the monitored devices must be synchronized with the correct date and time, either manually or automatically. We recommend that you also configure the devices to resolve DNS queries.
Make sure that the Juniper device user account permission to run the following commands:
- Retrieve revision
  
  set cli screen-width 1000
  show configuration
  show configuration policy-options
  show system uptime
  show version
  show configuration system
- Virtual context
  
  show logical-system
- Dynamic topology
  
  show configuration routing-instances
  show route active-path
  show interfaces terse
  show vrrp
  show interfaces
  show bgp neighbor
  
  If you are using logical systems, add:
  
  set cli logical-system <LSYS_NAME>
  clear cli logical-system
  
  where <LYS_NAME> is the name of the logical system
- Provisioning
- Export versions of JunOS devices may not support SSH.

Adding an SRX or J Series Device

In TOS Aurora, go to Monitoring > Manage Devices.
Select SRX, J-Series.
Configure the device settings:
- Name for Display
- Domain: Available only if you have configured your system for managing multi-domains and All Domains is currently selected. Select the domain to which to add the device. The Domain can only be entered when adding a device; to change the Domain, you must migrate the device.
- Get revisions from: One of the following:
  - IP Address: Revisions are retrieved automatically
  - Offline File: (If available) Revisions are manually uploaded to SecureTrack for Offline Analysis
    
    For IP Address, if SecureTrack is configured or will be configured as a syslog server for the NSM, make sure to use the same Juniper device IP address here as is configured in the NSM.
- This device has Virtual Systems configured: Select to enable adding and monitoring Virtual Systems.
  
  If you have virtual systems, you can monitor clustered Netscreen devices. You can only do this when you first add the device to SecureTrack. To monitor a Netscreen cluster that has virtual systems, select This device has Virtual Systems configured and select Cluster.
- ST server: In a distributed deployment, select which TOS Aurora cluster monitors this device (not shown in image)
- Collect traffic logs for rule usage analysis is necessary for Rule Usage reports.
  - Collect traffic logs for object usage analysis is necessary for reporting on unused objects and services in Rule Usage Reports.
  Object usage analysis requires plenty of free disk space (depending on the number of gateways and the amount of traffic logs generated). If disk space is limited, you can configure SecureTrack to limit the number of days that data is kept.
  
  We recommend that you enable SecureTrack administrative alerts, which notify you if there is low disk space on the server. When disk utilization exceeds 90% in the partition that has the database, SecureTrack sends an alert.
- Enable Topology: Collects routing information for building the network Interactive Map.
  
  Topology options for Advanced management mode are configured when you import managed devices.
- Collect dynamic topology information: Select if the device uses dynamic addressing (such as DHCP) or dynamic routing protocols (such as OSPF).
Click Next.
Configure the TOS Aurora connection to the NSM device, according to the parameters required by the device. To use a vault server that contains access credentials, select Use Vault and select the server. For more information, see Configuring a Vault Server.

Make sure you have a user configured on the device with the privileges required by SecureTrack. See the prerequisites section for a list of required privileges.
- Enter the authentication details (User name and Password) needed to connect to the Juniper device.
- Connection configuration: Select whether to use SSH (preferred) or Telnet. To use default settings (recommended in most cases), leave the Port number blank.
  The device must be configured to use SSH version 2.
Click Next.
In Monitoring Settings, do one of the following:
- To use real-time monitoring and timing settings from the Timing page, select Default.
Otherwise, select Custom and configure the monitoring mode and settings.
- Periodic Polling, select Custom settings and configure the Polling frequency: How often TOS Aurora fetches the configuration from each device.
  If you select 1 day, you can then select the exact time (hour and minute) for the daily polling.
Click Next.
Save the configuration.
The device now appears in the Monitored Devices tree.

How Do I Get Here?

In TOS Aurora, go to Monitoring > Manage Devices.