Chapter 16
Automation and Scripting Tools
Network automation can make your life easier. There are many reasons why IT organizations of all shapes and sizes are adopting network automation. Following are some of them:
Reduced operational costs: Automation can give a return on investment for every dollar spent. Automation has the potential to reduce IT department staffing costs while potentially redirecting IT staff efforts to more proactive, business value–generating projects.
Deterministic outcomes: Automation of the network decreases manual, error-prone processes on network configuration and deployment.
Resilient networks: Automation can detect and fix network errors on the fly without manual intervention. This results in more resilient networks. ...
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