‘Measure twice, cut once’ doesn’t work for network management. It’s time for the industry to consider a new way to coordinate network management design tools.
Carpenters always remember one simple piece of advice when they are working on a job: Measure twice, cut once. It’s a little different in networking, though. In our industry, my advice is the following: Measure many times, but never cut.
Take your typical network. Ask five different administrators and outside consultants about the tools they use to determine how the network is performing or to troubleshoot problems, and you’ll get six different answers — maybe more — about their network management design strategies.
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