This has been a favorite troubleshooting and information tool of mine since its inception as a Java App. Now re-written by the RIPE NCC….BGPlay! ripestat.init(“bgplay”,{“unix_timestamps”:“TRUE”,“ignoreReannouncements”:“true”,“rrcs”:“0,1,6,7,11,14,3,4,5,10,12,13,15”,“resource”:“141.142.0.0/16”,“starttime”:“1410023700”,“endtime”:“1410207300”,“instant”:“null”,“type”:“bgp”},null,{“show_controls”:“yes”,“disable”:[]})

Logical systems are something that JunOS has done very, very right. Regardless of if you need to create segregated administrative domains, routing domains or just labbing something up, this is a fantastic tool in the Juniper toolbox. If you’re lucky enough to have an MX series available for testing, you’re already half way there.

I have been buried in stuff to work on lately. The amazing part of this is that it is all very interesting and things I want to do and learn. The exhausting part is that there is an overwhelming amount of it. It is a good problem to have. The list of things goes on and on (and obviously I don’t do all of this stuff by myself, we have an amazing team) but the short list is a pretty tall order.

Included here is a vanilla Ubuntu 18 LTS VM with a basic Elastiflow install. This includes all of the components of an ElasticStack plus the front end pieces of the ElastiFlow project. Most of the install is based on this how-to. Included in the image is also a base install of NGINX and certbot so that you can reverse proxy the access and have a valid SSL certificate. This was build and validated on Proxmox 6.