Playing hide and seek with JunOS

JunOS has some commands which either are unsupported, do not work in platform you're using, undocumented or unnecessary for vast majority of operators, these commands are hidden in the UI so they are only accessible if you know what (and more importantly why) you want (them).

Today I was searching for a way to quiet my SRX210HE-POE as it makes annoyingly lot noise, I failed to find configuration way to force it to normal spinning speed, but I did notice that CLI exposes hidden commands. I've actually found same in IOS several years back and wrote little perl script to search for them (exec only), it proved bad idea as several of them purposely crash your system. If you want to dig deeper, in IOS difference is incomplete and invalid command, however actually some commands are truly hidden in IOS, particular example is the toggle for unsupported transceivers.

Neither the JunOS nor IOS issue are something you can blame vendor at, vendor isn't trying to stop you from using them, they just want to be very clear that if you use them TAC ain't go your back.

The code is quick 2h hack (running it takes longer, but I'm certain the search/walk can be optimized) and it depends on ssh/telnet library I've done. This library was meant for optimal way to do exec commands, not configuration commands. And best way to do exec commands in JunOS is to open new ssh channels with exec('command') per command, this way you never ever need to do screen scraping for prompt, as when ssh channel closes, command has finished. Unfortunately this approach does not work for config, and I didn't bother disabling forcing this behavior in the library, so right now it only supports telnet (if you really want ssh, hack it to assume remote is 'cisco' then it'll open shell, instead of exec, since IOS does not support multiple channels over existing ssh connection).