Never said it was, and never said foolproof either. Minimizing the chance of error is what I'm after - and ssh'ing in + hand typing configs isn't the way to go.
Use a known good template to provision stuff - and automatically deploy it, and the chances of human error go down quite a lot. Getting it down to zero defect from there is another kettle of fish altogether - a much more expensive with dev / test, staging and production environments, documented change processes, maintenance windows etc. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Michael Dillon <wavetos...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > It is easy to create a tangled mess of OSS applications that are glued > together > by lots of manual human effort creating numerous opportunities for human > error. > So while I wholeheartedly support automation of network configuration, that is > not a magic bullet. You also need to pay attention to the whole process, the > whole chain of information flow. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)
