
Configuring and Troubleshooting Bay Dial VPN Services
C-14 302272-A Rev. 00
9.
Document each step you do in the troubleshooting process.
An effective troubleshooting strategy includes taking detailed notes as you
perform each procedure. These notes:
• Give you an opportunity to pause and think clearly about the problem and
the procedures you are following. Writing things down can help you
visualize and clarify the problem and what to do about it.
• Provide you with a record of the tasks you performed. This record is
essential because:
-- You can refer to it during the procedure to recall whether you already
performed a certain task.
-- A diagnostic procedure can include many tasks. It is easy to forget,
for example, which statistics you checked and what they revealed at a
given time.
-- You can refer to it to tell whether, after implementing a test solution,
you repeated important diagnostic steps.
-- You can refer to notes concerning previous occurrences of the same
problem to find hints on how to recover quickly.
-- You can provide the information needed by another interested
colleague, manager, or Bay Networks Technical Solutions Center
representative if you cannot resolve the problem yourself.
10.
Do one corrective task at a time.
Always perform one corrective task at a time. Then repeat the test that you
performed to identify the problem to validate the correction. Verify whether
the task solved the problem before performing the next corrective task.
This way, you know which task solved the problem. If you perform multiple
corrective tasks without verifying the success of each sequentially, you may
unintentionally complicate the original problem. You may also:
• Solve the problem, but cause another.
• Solve the problem without knowing how you solved it.
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