Network Troubleshooting Webinar on Safari Books

I just redid my slides for the network troubleshooting seminar I teach on Safari Books from time to time. This new set of slides should make for a better webinar. The outline now covers—

Segment 1: Foundations
Length: 50 minutes

• MTTR, MTBM, MTBM
• Resiliency in terms of troubleshooting
• Positive feedback loops
• Automated processes and fragility
• The troubleshooting process
• Avoiding the narrows
• Using models to dive deeper
• Using abstraction to counter the combinatorial explosion
• When abstractions leak
• What, how, and why models

10 Minute Break

Segment 2: Process
Length: 50 minutes

• The theory of half split, as seen from search trees
• Putting it together: a simple troubleshooting loop and the half-split
• Using manipulability theory to prove it
• Observations on observations

10 Minute Break

Segment 3: Examples
Length: 50 minutes

• The EIGRP case
• The BGP case
• IS-IS and BFD

10 minute final Question and Answer Period

You can register here. Note the name of the seminar is changing, so the URL might change, as well.