Hardware discontinuation / immediate End of Life SRX210H-P-MGW, SRX220H-P-MGW, SRX240H-P-MGW, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA22

Product Affected:

 

SRX210H-P-MGW, SRX220H-P-MGW, SRX240H-P-MGW, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA22

 
Alert Description:

 

The Integrated Convergence Services (ICS) solution consisting of the Branch SRX Media Gateway products SRX210H-P-MGW, SRX220H-P-MGW SRX240H-P-MGW, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA04, SRX-MP-VA22 is being discontinued immediately, and removed as a supported product. These products were in early access, but not launched. Juniper Networks will be contacting customers with these products in order to replace them with similar SRX products that do not contain the ICS and Media Gateway functionality. This will be handled as an "Exchange RMA." Customers are asked to call in and identify their call is in reference to the "SRX Media Gateway Exchange Program".

Once the exchange RMA is taken, the replacement device(s) will be shipped to the customer. The replacement hardware will be registered and the remaining term of the support contract will be transferred to the new hardware. Shipping labels will be sent to the customer with the replacement device, one for each device in the exchange to be returned to Juniper. The customer will use the box received from the replacement device to return the SRX-MGW device(s).

Update 11/12/14:

All products listed above have reached EOL and no further exchanges or RMA's will be fulfilled.

Enable EPEL repository in CentOS & RHEL

EPEL stands for ‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux‘ , as the name suggest epel provides additional rpm packages for RHEL , CentOS , Scientific Linux (SL) & Oracle Enterprise Linux (OLE) . EPEL is created and maintained by Fedora community and EPEL packages are 100% free/libre open source software (FLOSS).
In this post we will discuss how to enable epel repository in CentOS / RHEL 5.X / 6.X / 7.X

For CentOS 5.X / RHEL 5.X

Open the terminal & become the root user and execute below command :
For 32 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 6.X / RHEL 6.X

Open the terminal execute below command as a root user.
For 32 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 7.X / RHEL 7.X

Open the terminal execute below command as a root user
For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

Note : EPEL repository file is located under ‘/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo’

List New Repository

[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
 * extras: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * updates: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
repo id            repo name                                                 status
base/7/x86_64      CentOS-7 - Base                                           8,465
epel/x86_64        Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64            6,349
extras/7/x86_64    CentOS-7 - Extras                                         75
updates/7/x86_64   CentOS-7 - Updates                                        1,127
repolist: 16,016

List EPEL Packages :

[root@localhost ~]# yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available