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Geek Guide to Network Troubleshooting

This no-nonsense guide gives you the low-down on how to automate many of the pesky manual tasks you face everyday. Pick up some free network tools along with tips and tricks for bandwidth monitoring, isolating network versus application issues, and streamlining configuration management.

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An up-to-date and in-depth inventory of device configurations is instrumental when troubleshooting a network issue. To ensure your config data is always current, take advantage of automated configuration management tools.

Reviewing network device logs can help you define and diagnose a problem quickly. Configure your system so that all logs are sent to a central syslog server.

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