Operational Challenges

Problems with the legacy approach

Many challenges exist with the legacy approach to managing networks. Whether through CLI device-to-device, or through complicated and- expensive- NMS solutions, network management requires a great deal of CLI work.

The following is a list of key problems inherent to the legacy approach:

No source of truth

• Networks often lack a source of truth, which is an authoritative artifact that can be referenced for what the desired working configuration of a device or set of devices is.
• Networks are often decentralized in project folders, file shares, Visio diagrams, Excel spreadsheets, and local drives.

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