April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
684 pages
17h 34m
English
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Glossary
- Ansible
A framework for automating the configuration and management of systems.
- Application programming interface (API)
A specification that defines how a program can interact with a library or system. In the context of this book, the Junos management API defines the way automation tools run RPCs to view and change the configuration, as well as gather or change operational state.
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
A markup language for encoding complex structured data and metadata.
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
A lightweight data encoding format for transmitting structured data.
- Jinja2
A language that supports the creation of documents from a template.
- Junoscript
The protocol that the Junos CLI uses to communicate with MGD. It is a precursor to the standards-based NETCONF and it shares many similarities with NETCONF.
- jxmlease
A Python module for converting XML documents to native Python data structures, and vice versa.
- lxml
A Python module for parsing and building XML documents. The lxml module provides similar, but more advanced, functionality to the
ElementTreemodule.- metadata
Data that provides additional information about other data.
- MGD
The Junos management daemon. This is the daemon to which NETCONF and Junoscript clients connect. As described in “Management System Internals”, MGD manages much of the flow of operational and configuration data inside the system.
See Junoscript
- Netconify
A Python module (also executable ...
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