[afnog] Backup routing Engine

[ibtisam jamal]

Thanks ..everything went well.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 04:23:58 PM ibtisam jamal wrote:
>
> > we dont have
>
> Then that's fine.
>
> Your upgrade procedure will be okay. Just be sure to run a
> backup (request system snapshot) of the current system prior
> to upgrading.
>
> Also note that since Junos 9, you now require a minimum of
> 1GB compact flash on the RE's. While I've installed Junos
> 10.4 on a 256MB compact flash on an M7i (out of
> desperation), it's not something I'd generally recommend.
>
> As you will be turning on GRES after you deploy the 2nd RE,
> you'll always need to disable it before any other Junos
> upgrades. Don't worry, if you forget, the system will remind
> you.
>
> Also, one suggestion, after you install the 2nd RE, is to
> enable automatic synchronization of the committed
> configuration between both the primary and backup RE's.
>
>        set system commit synchronize
>
> If you don't include that command, you have to manually
> synchronize the configurations (commit synchronize), which
> is easy to forget, and a bad situation to be in if you're
> ever in a failover state.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Mark.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/attachments/20120614/ea174bae/attachment-0001.html>