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Tomorrow's Network Automation Today: Page 2 of 2

With Network automation though, at least in the Cisco world, when the router interface is over 75 percent utilized, you can have the router  automatically start a packet capture that collects the traffic in a pcap format and sends a syslog message to you to let you know there is something to look at. Now we're talking!  The great thing is that each network will have its own requirements for this type of automation and it is easy for each network manager to create their own scripts and deploy them.