gesh75 Network manager cadence
Do not use for packet-level troubleshooting or CLI. Not for writing device templates.
Procedure
- Weekly: SEV recap, open changes, circuit RFO aging past 10 days, on-call load.
- Monthly: capacity (WAN 70% / fabric 40% / IPAM 80% triggers a project), vendor TAC tickets aging, contract renewals inside 120 days.
- CAB: only changes with a rollback, a verification step, and a named approver. Emergency CAB is the exception, logged.
- Risk register: single-homed sites, end-of-support hardware, TACACS blast radius, key-person bus factor.
- Staffing: each engineer has a primary and a backup domain. No domain with one name.
CAB 2026-09-03
CHG-1841 leaf-24 EVPN RT split rollback yes window Sat 02:00
CHG-1844 Prisma connector pair rollback yes window Sun 06:00
HOLD core IOS-XR SMU missing twin test
Anti-patterns
- Never approve a change whose verification is "we'll know if users call".
- Do not let a vendor QBR replace your own capacity numbers.
Safety
This skill produces documents, not device writes.