diff --git a/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/cli.py b/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/cli.py
index 7c8035d43bea3af3ee3a9499ffa14926fc4c68ca..ac18cfda2e81fc16b0e810b4dee3f4c21a718827 100644
--- a/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/cli.py
+++ b/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/cli.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def process_juniper_router(
         )
     )
 
-    _log_interface_points_sorted(points, point_kind='error')
+    _log_interface_points_sorted(points, point_kind="error")
     write_points(points, influx_params=influx_params)
 
 
@@ -184,10 +184,8 @@ def _log_interface_points_sorted(points: Sequence[dict], point_kind=""):
     N_COLUMNS = 5
     num_points = len(points)
     point_kind = point_kind + " " if point_kind else ""
-    semicolon = ':' if num_points else ''
-    logger.info(
-        f"Found {point_kind}points for {num_points} interfaces{semicolon}"
-    )
+    semicolon = ":" if num_points else ""
+    logger.info(f"Found {point_kind}points for {num_points} interfaces{semicolon}")
 
     if not points:
         return
diff --git a/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/vendors/juniper.py b/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/vendors/juniper.py
index 7102b3a9932e79b64dbaa025a43470f7cea84533..bd1b14997cc65fb6e0dd42af1bb4952cb8ea2303 100644
--- a/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/vendors/juniper.py
+++ b/brian_polling_manager/interface_stats/vendors/juniper.py
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ def _physical_interface_counters(ifc_doc):
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "ae"))]'
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "irb"))]'
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "gr"))])'
-        ' and normalize-space(admin-status)="up"'
-        ' and normalize-space(oper-status)="up"'
+        # ' and normalize-space(admin-status)="up"'
+        # ' and normalize-space(oper-status)="up"'
         "]"
     ):
         result = parse_interface_xml(phy, PHYSICAL_INTERFACE_COUNTERS)
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@ def _logical_interface_counters(ifc_doc):
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "ae"))]'
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "irb"))]'
         ' or name[(starts-with(normalize-space(), "gr"))])'
-        ' and normalize-space(admin-status)="up"'
-        ' and normalize-space(oper-status)="up"'
+        # ' and normalize-space(admin-status)="up"'
+        # ' and normalize-space(oper-status)="up"'
         "]/logical-interface"
     ):
         result = parse_interface_xml(logical, LOGICAL_INTERFACE_COUNTERS)
diff --git a/test/interface_stats/test_interface_stats.py b/test/interface_stats/test_interface_stats.py
index 421417f8af80f9f24be4c84fc4782478cd446a4e..40ff6ae004d78063a6e8bcbf96170b03e29a48bb 100644
--- a/test/interface_stats/test_interface_stats.py
+++ b/test/interface_stats/test_interface_stats.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def test_verify_all_interfaces_present(single_router_fqdn, polled_interfaces):
             over all test data sets ... the point of the test
             is a sanity check of our test data
     """
+
     def _is_enabled(ifc_name, ifc_doc):
         m = re.match(r"^([^\.]+)\.?.*", ifc_name)
         assert m  # sanity: should never fail
@@ -386,8 +387,8 @@ def test_main_for_all_juniper_routers(write_points, all_juniper_routers):
     @pelle: this is not a maintainable pattern (e.g. POL1-799 or similar things)
       ... please do something nicer (actually > a few calls/points is enough)
     """
-    assert calls == 104
-    assert total_points == 6819
+    assert calls > 0
+    assert total_points > 0
 
 
 class TestGetJuniperNetConnf:
@@ -400,9 +401,7 @@ class TestGetJuniperNetConnf:
     @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
     def mocked_rpc(self, data_dir):
         raw_response = data_dir.joinpath(self.RAW_RESPONSE_FILE).read_text()
-        with patch.object(
-            juniper, "_rpc", return_value=RPCReply(raw_response)
-        ) as mock:
+        with patch.object(juniper, "_rpc", return_value=RPCReply(raw_response)) as mock:
             yield mock
 
     def test_calls_rpc_with_params(self, mocked_rpc):
@@ -522,8 +521,7 @@ def test_prepare_influx_params(input_params, expected):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "hostname",
-    ['rt0.lon.uk.lab.office.geant.net', 'rt0.ams.nl.lab.office.geant.net']
+    "hostname", ["rt0.lon.uk.lab.office.geant.net", "rt0.ams.nl.lab.office.geant.net"]
 )
 def test_nokia_counters(hostname):
     """
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index d71b8bb5f34e142209e1e43cd14fd8f12902fa64..a0c8412c0f808e4c1744b4a40c2b9cee8e33e762 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ envlist = py36
 
 [flake8]
 max-line-length = 120
+extend-ignore = E203,E701,W605
 
 [testenv]
 passenv = USE_COMPOSE