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Getting the bgp established time for a bgp neighbor returns a string with a duration time. This format I can't figure out how Is the an easy way to convert the below junos duration format to for example seconds. The exslt date funtions use a different duration format. Would be nice note to write my own template if there exist an easy way.

var $get-bgp-summary = <get-bgp-summary-information>;  
var $bgp-summary = jcs:invoke($get-bgp-summary);
var $tmp = $bgp-summary/bgp-peer[peer-address=="1.1.1.1"]/elapsed-time;

The output for the @tmp variable can be like:

10w6d14h

4:14:43

10:1

1

Sometimes there is an alternative time format included as an attribute of the XML element. Like this element from "show system uptime":

<date-time junos:seconds="1328202458">2012-02-02 10:07:38 MST</date-time>

Does something like that exist in the RPC you're using? If not then you might have to write a conversion template yourself.

Yes I totally overlooked this and wrote a template. But it is probably full of error, so I better take the value that is there directly by the junos:seconds attribute.

The xml showed this

<elapsed-time junos:seconds="285963">3d 7:26:03</elapsed-time>

and reading a value like below gave me the needed information. Thanks a lot for the help

var $get-bgp-summary = <get-bgp-summary-information>;         

var $test = jcs:invoke($get-bgp-summary);

<output> $test/bgp-peer[peer-address=="1.1.1.1"]/elapsed-time/@junos:seconds