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• What Are Critical Network Problems?

  What are your critical network problems? Every network has them. They are the problems that cause network outages, or are the precursor to network outages. Most networks have similar designs and have similar critical network problems. I've heard network... Posted Jul 06 2011, 08:58 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: redundancy, config archive, reliability, performance

• Building Configuration Policy Checks, Part 2

  In the prior post, I explained why configuration policies are needed. Now it is time to discuss how to build policies. I like to start with the written policies, because that tells me what was intended. An example is: "All network devices will be... Posted May 04 2011, 01:55 PM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: compliance, Configuration management, Configuration Repository, configuration update, configuration policy, config policy, config archive, configuration change, configuration compliance, configuration checking

• Identifying Unsaved Running Configurations

  Have you ever lost a device configuration because you forgot to save it to NVRAM and the device later rebooted, perhaps due to a power outage? More than likely some feature or function that had been operating correctly since the last change suddenly stopped... Posted Dec 21 2009, 10:35 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Configuration management, Featured, config diff, config archive