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 working for no apparent reason. The clue is...

The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) email list just had an interesting exchange about configuration management. Someone asked: For auditing, is there any Cisco Router/Switch configuration analysis tool? Someone else replied: Depends on your goal. Trying to identify and fix configuration...