[AusNOG] Vlan Add - Was Re: Work experience in networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?

[PRK]

Is there anyone here who either: 

a) Hasn't done the vlan xxx instead of vlan add xxx? 

or 

b) Hasn't directly seen the vlan xxx instead of vlan add xxx done? 

Or, if you're more of a systems person, haven't locked yourself out of a
server due to a firewall change, or directly seen someone else do so? 

Or, if you're a DBA, done an update to a database table and missed the
where clause, overwriting every single record? 

I'd consider these fairly common errors that almost everyone makes,
once, and a fantastic way to evaluate someone's response under pressure.
They're also fantastic teachable moments (once resolved) as to why
certain company processes and procedures exist. 

I'd probably be concerned if the same person made the same mistake more
than once, though. 

prk. 

On 2014-12-23 20:48, Andy S. wrote: 

> I just remember one of my mate told a story about one particular CCIE doing "switchport trunk allowed vlan xxx" instead of "switchport trunk allowed vlan add xxx" and caused an outage. Companies losing money (according to him. It's a stock trading company). Though it's weird they needed more time to address where the issue was.
 
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