How to shutdown an Interface on a Juniper Switch.

This article briefs the set of commands used to disable and enable interfaces on juniper switch, which is equivalent to shutdown and no shutdown used in Cisco products.

To disable an Interface use the below command in the configuration mode and commit the changes.

root@JN-SW-01# set interfaces xe-0/0/2.0 disable

root@JN-SW-01# commit 

This is equivalent to shutdown in Cisco.

Verify the changes:

root@JN-SW-01> show interfaces xe-0/0/2.0 terse 

Interface               Admin Link Proto    Local      Remote

xe-0/0/2.0              down  up  

To enable an Interface use the below command in the configuration mode and commit the changes.

root@JN-SW-01# delete interfaces xe-0/0/2.0 disable

root@JN-SW-01# commit 

This is equivalent to no shutdown in Cisco.

Verify the changes:

root@JN-SW-01> show interfaces xe-0/0/2.0 terse    

Interface               Admin Link Proto    Local      Remote

xe-0/0/2.0              up    up