nanog mailing list archives

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?


From: Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:50:24 -0700

 That is not to say that large monitoring rooms are a better choice over
automation (which they are not).

I'm sure when the automation is perfect and widespread to the point that it
catches and alerts on every network event, the monitoring rooms will
disappear.

But unless you have an entire organization dedicated to automation
development or pay an incredibly large sum of money for pre-built packages,
the business decision may still be made to actively monitor the network
with eyeballs.

Every failure mode is known until a new one pops up. Automation without any
kind of ML secret sauce relies on known failure-modes.

Not advocating one or the other, just playing Devil's advocate for the
Devil's advocate.

-Matt

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:28 PM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera () gmail com> wrote:

Peace,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 12:21 AM Lady Benjamin PD Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>
wrote:

We are still operating ours - 27 1080P projectors - but with a skeleton
crew of just 3.  Given the air volume, it’s almost like outside.


A devil advocate here,

First of all, COVID-19 is really serious.

With that in mind, with all the necessary precautions office space *may*
be managed safely to prevent the spread.

Production plants had security measures preventing workforce injuries for
a century already.  Just a bit of that, with constant trainings, would get
your monitoring room safe, especially with all the bars closed and
everything operating on delivery.

That is not to say that large monitoring rooms are a better choice over
automation (which they are not).

--
Töma



-- 
Matt Erculiani
ERCUL-ARIN

Current thread: