Root Cause Analysis:

Production Server outage caused by field tech misreading instructions.
Instructions indicated: “Check serial numbers on Data Center servers. Do not touch.”
Tech’s interpretation: “Unrack all equipment, stack in corner, and go to lunch”
Management is pushing for clearer instructions in attempt to mitigate risk of this happening in the future.

Code Snippet:


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				Ol’ Rack and Stack
				description Never Underestimate Stupid

no logging console

no ip domain-lookup

no directions

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								Raspberry Pi and Toast
								description Rasperry Pi should never be mixed with toast

no path url https://www.raspberrypi.org/

no toast

autosum

ip address 74.125.224.72 255.255.255.0

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								Telco Tickets
								description Only pipe to telco. Hope it doesn’t go down. We’re too cheap to purchase redundancy.

no ip address

encapsulation hdlc

isdn switch-type primary-4ess

isdn protocol-emulate network

no cdp enable

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								Protip: End all your route patterns with a dot
								destination-pattern 9[2-9]..[2-9]……$

session protocol sipv2

session target ipv4:10.10.10.10

no vad

no digit-strip

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								Lick it to claim it
								description The 5 second rule doesn’t often apply to dropped tech

no keepalive

linecode  b8zs

yellow generation

no tunnel checksum

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								Fire in the Patch-Panel
								description Combustible patch paneling needs to be a thing

no lex burned-in-address

no lex retry-count 10

no ip address

no shutdown

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