When dealing with both internal and external compliance requirements, IT staffs typically must shoulder the burden of proving the network infrastructure meets and maintains the best practices/gold standards (internal) or regulatory mandates (external). Traditionally, this process uses a great deal of manual time and effort to log in, capture the configs, review, compile and report. For a 150 device network, this effort could take as much as 24 hours to meet the needs of the auditor.
The newest Netcordia Tech Tip revolves around automating the compliance process and quickly highlights the primary time savings associated with automating the collection, analysis and reporting of data.
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