This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gayle Levin, director of solutions marketing at Riverbed Technologies
Network configuration errors and the resulting service outages are a nightmare scenario for many network operations teams. These all-too-realistic nightmares are often the result of manual and error-prone command line interfaces (CLIs) that are still common among traditional, hardware-based networking equipment.
Whether the cause is a typo in a command, an incorrect network mask or default gateway, an accidental duplicate IP address, or the more nefarious “while I’m updating this I’ll clean up those other things”, misconfigurations can be very time consuming to troubleshoot.
