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Re: cost of misconfigurations
From: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:13:38 -0400
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner () gmail com> wrote:
A misconfiguration will, at least, impact on two points: network outage and re-work. For the network outage, you have to use the SLAs to calculate the cost (how much you lost from the customers' revenue) due to that outage. On the other hand, there is the time efforts spent to fix the misconfiguration. Under the fix, it could be removing the misconfig and applying a new one correct. Or just fixing the misconfig targeting the correct config. This re-work will translate in time, and time can be translated in money spent.
Isn't the largest cost omitted (or at least glossed over) here? Namely, lost customers due to the outage. That's why people have SLAs and rework the network at all -- to avoid that cost. -- Darius Jahandarie
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