Open linux shell in QFabric

I personally like Linux Operating System, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and others. One of the reasons is the Linux Shell, or originally called Unix Shell, the most common are Bourne shell (sh), Bourne-Again shell (bash) and C shell (csh). Now, could you imagine what a better tool in Qfabric that a linux-type shell with a whole bunch of linux tools in it? Well the good thing is that's possible and in this article I show you how to open it up.

First, log in to network node group and issue start shell command. Once there issue su command and enter root password (that is if you want to get full access to it). Below you can find out how this great tool looks like:

root@qfabric> request component login NW-NG-0
Warning: Permanently added 'dcfnode-default---nw-ine-0,169.254.192.34' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
--- JUNOS 13.1X50-D15.1 built 2013-10-31 14:06:44 UTC
{master}
qfabric-admin@NW-NG-0> start shell
% su
Password:
root@NW-NG-0%
root@NW-NG-0% pwd
/var/home/qfabric-admin

You can also log-in to any redundant server node group such as RSNG1 from the following example:

root@qfabric> request component login RSNG1
Warning: Permanently added 'dcfnode-default-rsng1,169.254.193.10' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
--- JUNOS 13.1X50-D15.1 built 2013-10-31 14:06:52 UTC
{master}
qfabric-admin@RSNG1> start shell
% su
Password:
root@RSNG1%
root@RSNG1% pwd
/var/home/qfabric-admin

From that point, either you are logged in one or other group, you'll get access to issue linux commands. For instance, I wanted to check system processes with CPU and memory consumption.

% ps -auxw | awk -F' ' '{print $1,$2,$3,$4}' | sed -n -e 1,4p
USER PID %CPU %MEM
root 31 93.9 0.0
root 32 93.9 0.0
root 33 93.9 0.0

I encourage all QFabric Admins to get the habit of using the shell as a troubleshooting tool. You'll never regret.