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Connect your Juniper Networks SRX firewall (Junos OS) so Myrmex can read its configuration, audit its hardening, help you clean up policies, and — with approval — apply changes. Myrmex reaches the device over SSH through a Collector on your network, on demand — nothing is stored on the Myrmex side.

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What Myrmex Can Do

Read & troubleshoot

Inspect system status, interfaces, routing, sessions, security policies, zones, NAT, and VPNs — read-only diagnostics, pulled live.

Hardening audit

Run a Security Posture audit against Junos OS hardening controls.

Policy hygiene

Find shadowed, unused, or overly-permissive security policies and propose cleanups.

Backup & diff

Back up the configuration on demand and compare revisions over time; with approval, apply rule and VPN changes.

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Before You Start

  • A Collector deployed on a network that can reach the firewall’s management IP over SSH. See Deploying the agent.
  • SSH enabled on the SRX (set system services ssh).
  • An administrator account Myrmex can use to log in (a read-only class is enough for analysis; a super-user class is required to apply changes).

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Step 1 — Create the Access Account on Juniper SRX

1

Enable SSH

Enable the SSH service — via J-Web → Configure → System → Services, or in the CLI with set system services ssh.
2

Choose a login class (optional, recommended)

Decide what Myrmex should do — the predefined read-only class for analysis, or the super-user class to allow changes.
3

Create the user

Add a login user and assign the class — for example set system login user myrmex class super-user authentication plain-text-password — then commit. Note the username and password — you’ll enter them in Myrmex.
Prefer least privilege: start with a read-only account, and only grant super-user once you want the agents to apply changes for you.

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Step 2 — Add the Integration in Myrmex

From the Directory, choose Add Integration → Juniper Firewall, then fill in:

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Connect

Click Connect to validate the SSH connection and finish. The firewall then appears under Environment → Integrations, and you can start asking the AI about it in the Workspace.
This integration is operated by the Integration Specialist agent, which runs the Junos CLI on your behalf. Browse more connectors in the Integrations directory.