General Troubleshooting and Verification Techniques
A listing of articles discussing CCIE Lab exam troubleshooting.
- Wendell Odom tries the new CCIE v4 troubleshooting section for himself and has some thoughts on how to prep for the CCIE Routing and Switching troubleshooting section.
- From Cisco, a list of error codes and error messages. Also how to create core dumps.
- A MUST READ series of articles from Scott Morris of Internetwork Expert:
- Anthony of Internetwork Expert has an awesome two part series on CCIE R&S toubleshooting: sample trouble tickets (part 1) and sample trouble tickets (part 2). He also reminds us that only routers are present int the v4.0 troubleshooting section.
- TechRepublic’s Warren Heaton reminds us of Cisco’s 8-Step Method for Network Troubleshooting.
- CCIE Pursuit has a cool method for identifying commands on a system that are on by default.
- Internetwork Expert has a useful list of (mostly) show commands that everyone should find useful on the CCIE Lab.
- Jeremy Stretch has a paper on network troubleshooting called The Science of Network Troubleshooting.
- You can limit your debugs to certain conditions with the debug condition command, thanks to Roy at Route Leaker for pointing that out.
- Dale Davis at TechRepublic has a nice list of debugging tips.
- Terry Slattery suggests using the OSI model in your approach to troubleshooting.
- CCIE extrodinaire Narbik has a free CCIE troubleshooting workbook available for download.
Source From: http://www.cciestudywiki.com/wiki/General_Troubleshooting