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I'm a proponent of network management automation and found a related blog post, Why End Users Love BPM , by long-time friend Scott Menter, who is working at BP Logix. BP Logix makes products for automating business processes. Scott's post discusses...
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I've been doing some more reading about network event handling and found some interesting articles and a few facts that I'd like to share. I have my own ideas about handling network events, but am open to learning what other people do and why...
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I've been participating on several network management product forums for the past six months and have some observations that I'd like to share. First, most organizations are focused on network performance monitoring. The forum questions tend to...
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I recently read a blog by Joel Spolsky titled Making Wrong Code Look Wrong , in which he described ways that software developers can help make it easier to spot errors and to reduce the potential for bugs. Since I do some development, it was an interesting...
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The quote has been made in the past "Whoever controls the skies controls the land."* I think that an equivalent quote in today's network environment is: Whoever controls the infrastructure controls the business. Let me explain why. We've...
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Two things happened recently that reinforced my preference for network management appliances. The first is database configuration and maintenance. The second is system configuration for efficiency. I'm installing and configuring a popular NMS software...
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HN3BC7ARUXHE This past week I had to update selected edge ports on a set of Cisco Catalyst 4507 and 4510 switches. Two things forced me to take the time to use NetMRI's Configuration Command Scripting (CCS) language to automate the process. The first...
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Have you ever accidentally left debug enabled on a Cisco network device? I have, many years ago. I had been doing some troubleshooting and was interrupted by someone with a question. Auto-logout closed my session and by the time I returned to what I was...
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Remember the old management adage "You can only manage what you can measure"? Well, there's a corollary in Network Management, in which you can only manage devices that you know to exist. In my current job, the network has over 600 core...
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I was at VoiceCon two weeks ago, participating in a panel where I talked about network resiliency and presented my VoIP Troubleshooting and Monitoring tutorial. Both presentations included examples of how you should be prepared for network failures. I'm...
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