Step 2: Up And Running; Plug And Play; Perform Initial Configuration - Juniper Day One+ MX304 Manual

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Step 2: Up and Running

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Now that the MX304 is powered on, let's do some initial configuration to get it up and running on the network. It's

simple to configure and manage the MX304 using the CLI.

Plug and Play

The MX304 router ships with factory-default settings that enable some zero touch provisioning (ZTP) functions. These

settings load as soon as you power on the switch. In our case we configure the router manually, so we remove the ZTP

settings as part of our initial configuration.

Perform Initial Configuration

You can easily customize the factory-default configuration with just a few commands. When you commit changes to the

configuration, a new configuration file is created. This becomes the active configuration. You can always revert to the

factory-default configuration anytime you want.

When ZTP is not used you must perform the initial configuration of an MX304 router through the console port (CON)

using the Junos OS command-line interface (CLI). If your MX304 has dual Routing-Engines, you should perform these

steps on each Routing-Engine, being sure to specify a unique management IP address for the management interface on

each Routing-Engine. See

share a single configuration file between both Routing-Engines.

Have the following information ready before you begin the initial configuration:

• The router's host and domain name

• IP address and subnet mask for the management Ethernet interface

• IP address of a default gateway for the management network

• IP address of a DNS server

• The root user's password

Verify that the router is powered on.

"Step 3: Keep Going" on page 12

for information on how to use configuration groups to

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