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Limited and mindful automation is the way to go, in my experience. If you try to automate everything, invariably you either miss something, or you end up being in a situation where something fundamental changes within the automation stack, and it breaks a lot of your work.Like everything else, use automation as a tool, but be careful where you apply it!
Wow, you may have described an attitude that I have run into perfectly. I have had luck persuading some to change - a well designed GUI that was quicker to use than a script. But overall, I feel your pain.
It would be handy if I could schedule a recurring maintenance period for a node without having to delve into setting up a Windows Scheduled Task or a cron job with API call.
I'm working as a contractor for an organization where the technical team is of the opinion that easy is not better. I'm showing then the value of using a SEIM that allows drilling down and their response was that they prefer one that uses CLI so that the team keeps up their skills. So for them I fear that automation will need to be pursued as a challange rather than as the benefits that it brings.
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AlertSummary.xmlHi All, I've done some work to tidy up our alert definitions (both the Alert Manager and Alert Actions) and the more important alerts have now been tailored and given a "[ *** ]" prefix so it is easy to see the alerts we have catered for versus those that might appear once in a while. I am monitoring this…
I wanted to share a new dashboard a co-worker ( @mblackburn ) came up with to help us better view groups of interfaces and various metrics for each. Using a single HTML widget, we are able to visually compare numerous different interfaces by populating each interface dataset onto its own graph. We are able to view…
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