From: Ian Mason (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 09:59:09 EDT
At 22:30 03/09/2003, Rob Thomas wrote:
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>effects. We all know better. Bugs aren't restricted only to
>products from Redmond, typos happen, and the performance hit can
>be quite painful.
In my experience more network downtime is caused by configuration errors
that all other causes together.
The best diagnostic tool I've ever had is a script I cobbled together over
two hours one night. Once an hour, it simply collected all the router
configs across the network, did a 'diff' between the current and last
config, and if there were changes, emailed them to me, along with a TACACS+
log summary that showed who had logged into which router when.
Experience with this quickly taught me to check these summary change logs
whenever a problem was escalated to me. Most times the problem was related
to a config change, not an external cause. Further experience taught me to
look out for one particular engineers name in the logs but that's another
story.
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