This document provides instructions for setting up an Ubuntu system to automate Juniper SRX devices using Ansible. It outlines steps to update Ubuntu, install Python and PIP, add the PyEZ and Ansible libraries, and verify the setup by running a sample playbook against a vSRX device using an inventory file.

1. SRX Automation 2:
Ubuntu setup

2. Ubuntu setup
 Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.3
 Update to latest patch
 Install Python
 Install PIP
 Install Juniper’s pyez library
 Install Ansible and role
 Verification with vSRX

3. Update to latest patch
 % sudo apt-get update

4. Python PIP install
 % sudo apt-get install python
 % sudo apt-get –y python-pip

5. Juniper PyEZ library
 sudo pip install junos-eznc, OR,
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev
$ sudo pip install pycrypto
$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
$ sudo pip install lxml
$ sudo pip install junos-eznc

6. Ansible
 % sudo pip install –U ansible==1.9.4
 % sudo ansible-galaxy install Juniper.junos

7. Verification
 Inventory: inventory.yml
 Playbook: simple.yml
 % ansible-playbook –i inventory.yml simple.yml