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

Step 2: Up and Running
IN THIS SECTION
Plug and Play | 7
Perform Inial Conguraon | 7
Now that the MX304 is powered on, let’s do some inial conguraon to get it up and running on the network. It’s
simple to congure and manage the MX304 using the CLI.
Plug and Play
The MX304 router ships with factory-default sengs that enable some zero touch provisioning (ZTP) funcons. These
sengs load as soon as you power on the switch. In our case we congure the router manually, so we remove the ZTP
sengs as part of our inial conguraon.
Perform Inial Conguraon
You can easily customize the factory-default conguraon with just a few commands. When you commit changes to the
conguraon, a new conguraon le is created. This becomes the acve conguraon. You can always revert to the
factory-default conguraon anyme you want.
When ZTP is not used you must perform the inial conguraon of an MX304 router through the console port (CON)
using the Junos OS command-line interface (CLI). If your MX304 has dual Roung-Engines, you should perform these
steps on each Roung-Engine, being sure to specify a unique management IP address for the management interface on
each Roung-Engine. See "Step 3: Keep Going" on page 12 for informaon on how to use conguraon groups to
share a single conguraon le between both Roung-Engines.
Have the following informaon ready before you begin the inial conguraon:
• 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
1. Verify that the router is powered on.
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