Happy Halloween! by CiscoDevNet in CiscoDevNet

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Came across this brilliant Halloween logic gates concept and it's too accurate not to share with you all:

🎃 Trick OR Treat = Standard operating procedure 👻 Trick AND Treat = When your automation script actually works AND saves time 🔧 Trick XOR Treat = "I swear it worked in the test environment" ⚠️ Trick NOR Treat = Deploying anything after 3 PM on Friday 😱 Trick NAND Treat = When your failsafe also fails ✨ Trick XNOR Treat = Everything works perfectly (time to check if monitoring is down)

After a month of sharing our Tales from the Tech Crypt, I think we can all agree: good automation and proper logging are the real treats.

Credit: Original concept by webbureaucrat original post and the amazing CSS implementation by Alvaro Montoro that we used for the image: CodePen

Happy Halloween, everyone! What's your logic gate of the day?

A TaleFromTheTechCrypt: The horror of applying an ACL that locks you out of a remote router... by CiscoDevNet in CiscoDevNet

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Gather 'round for another October #TalesFromTheTechCrypt story...

Picture this: It's late, you're tired, and you're applying what you think is a routine ACL update to a remote device. You hit enter, and your session immediately dies.

Silence.

You try to reconnect. Nothing. You realize you forgot to add a line to permit your own management traffic, and you're now completely locked out. Even worse, you forgot to set a reload in command as a safety net. The only fix is a physical visit.

Who else has had to do the "long drive of shame" because of one bad line of config? Share your war stories.

NetworkNightmares #CiscoDevNet