In this new lesson, I will explain and explain the following 3 topics:

• Time Zone
• Login Banner
• CLI idle timeout

Let’s begin with the Time Zone. It is very important that you set a time zone for your router which is the country where you are based so the router has the right clock. I can’t stress how important to have the clock set correctly on the router especially when you need to track some logs on the router for troubleshooting (logs will show the date/time when this event has happened).

Setting the time zone is straight forward on the Junos device:

Here I am showing only the 1^st page of this command. In my case, I am based in The Netherlands so I will search for the right time zone for the Netherlands – I will scroll with the pages until I find it:

Here it is, so let’s complete the command now:

It has been applied successfully. Now let’s check if the Juniper router has the time zone of the Netherlands:

Excellent, now I know that my router has the right time zone on it.

The next topic that I want to explain in this lesson is the login banner. With login banner, you provide a banner to any user who is trying to login to the router. This can help to notify unauthorized people that they shouldn’t log in to the router for example.

Let me show you how you can configure it:

This has been saved successfully, I will exit back to see if this message will show up for me:

Indeed – the login message has shown to me 😊

And finally, I will speak about the CLI idle timeout. This will allow the Juniper router to logout and close the session in case the console is idle for number of minutes that you precise. In case you put 0 minute, this means that the CLI will never exit.

The CLI idle timeout is handy when for example you are working on the CLI and you had to quit to make a cup of coffee 😊, then the session will close to not allow anyone to take control of your router and check/modify the configuration while you are not present.

To configure it, you have to be on the operational mode as the following:

So you have to chose “idle-timeout” completion command and set the number of minutes. I will put it for 1 minute and see if after 1 min of inactivity it will log me out:

Now the 1 minute has been finished, let me check my console session if it has logged out:

Indeed, this has worked perfectly. It had also warned me that there are still 10 second before it logged me out and when I did not do anything it logged me out.

This is all what I wanted to show you in this lesson, hope you enjoyed it and see you in the upcoming one 😊