Analysis by numerous IT experts have time and time again revealed that the most common cause for most Network outages is faulty configuration changes. In this age of the Internet, IT devices dominate almost all aspects of business enterprises. To cater to various business needs, network administrators carry out frequent configuration changes to network appliances. Every single change to a network device configuration carries with it the risk of creating a network outage, security issues and even performance degradation. The problem becomes still more complex when there are multiple devices from multiple vendors, with multiple administrators managing the network and carrying out changes and unplanned changes make the network vulnerable for unexpected outages. Besides, the network administrator is fraught with the challenge of keeping track of all the happenings in the network devices - which did what and when. In mission critical environments, network downtime, even for a few minutes, might prove to be costly. When a configuration error occurs in the network, it becomes a cumbersome task to identify the exact cause and initiate corrective action. Network administrators indeed face a daunting task when it comes to effectively doing the Network Change and Configuration Management! Add to this the fact that organisations infrastructure is growing and more appliances are added at an alarming rate. Each one of these devices has its own configuration which, in the event of a failure or wrong change, would have to be re-applied.
• How many network devices do you have? • Do you back up their configurations? • When was the last time you took a back up? • Where do you back up to? • Did the back up work? • Was it different to the previous back up? • Should it have been different to the previous back up?
Restorepoint offers multi-vendor network device configuration backups, by pulling configuration changes from the device and ensuring that organisations adhere to their own Network Change Management controls.