An emergency switch replacement can ruin your day. However, having network config backups is not enough. Restoring full service may not be as easy as just copying the running configuration from your RANCID CVS repo, or your colleagues hard drive. Restoring the ‘identity’ of your original switch is a multi-step and somewhat complicated process.
Every now and again you see a snippet of complex CLI syntax that gives you pause for thought. Last week I saw the command below in a change procedure. The command was being used to verify baseline BGP neighbor state and re-verify after a policy change. 1 2 3 show ip bgp peer-template eBGP_Peers | egrep default | sed ‘s/default://’ \ | tr -s ‘ |\n’ | tr -s ‘ ‘ ‘\n’ | sed ‘s/^/show ip bgp nei /’ \…
As a network engineer, you take pride in your hard earned skills, and so you should. You’ve learned how to design networks. You’ve learned how to install, upgrade and configure routers. You’ve figured out how to sniff out and fix faults. If you study your craft and hone your technical skills then you deserve to be rewarded. However, unless you can work with the people and process in an organization, you won’t get the career success you deserve. Getting Started…