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Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

  • From: Larry Sheldon
  • Date: Tue Feb 02 14:11:58 2010

On 2/2/2010 11:33 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
We have solved 98% of this with standard configurations and
templates.

To deviate from this requires management approval/exception approval
after an evaluation of the business risks.

Automation of config building is not too hard, and certainly things
like peer-groups (cisco) and regular groups (juniper) make it
easier.
Those things and some of the others that have been mentioned will go a very long way to prevent the second occurrence.

Only training, adequate (number and quality) staff, and a quality-above-all-all-else culture have a prayer of preventing the first occurrence. (For sure, lots of the second-occurrence-preventers may be part of that quality first culture.)

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