JunOS : Autorecovery information needs to be saved

By | January 15, 2022

If your Juniper device indicate an alarm status (red light shown on the unit), you can run the following command to find out the details :

show system alarm

And the following output is shown:

1 alarms currently active
Alarm time Class Description
2021-10-19 03:06:00 UTC Minor Autorecovery information needs to be saved

This mean that your device does not have recovery information saved in case of corruption, which would complicate the efforts to get back on track in such case.

All you need to do is to run the following command to resolve this matter:

request system autorecovery state save

This feature capture the current state of the system such as disk partitioning, licenses and configuration to be used in case of corruption, that you can use by manually trigger the “recover” command.