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You're facing urgent system issues. How do you decide on long-term prevention strategies?

When urgent system problems arise, it's vital to address them promptly while also considering long-term prevention. To strike this balance:

- Assess the root cause. Look beyond symptoms to understand what fundamentally needs to change.

- Prioritize scalable solutions. Choose strategies that can grow with your business needs.

- Document and review. Keep a record of incidents and responses to inform future prevention plans.

What strategies have you found effective for long-term system issue prevention?

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You're facing urgent system issues. How do you decide on long-term prevention strategies?

When urgent system problems arise, it's vital to address them promptly while also considering long-term prevention. To strike this balance:

- Assess the root cause. Look beyond symptoms to understand what fundamentally needs to change.

- Prioritize scalable solutions. Choose strategies that can grow with your business needs.

- Document and review. Keep a record of incidents and responses to inform future prevention plans.

What strategies have you found effective for long-term system issue prevention?

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    Adrian Amato

    Virtual Platforms/Infrastructure

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    Simple. Hire competent people. Might cost you a little more, but can you afford not to? Alternately, skill your people, immediate returns.

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    Vishal Gadekar

    Linux system administrator | Ansible | AWS | Docker

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    1. Informed the application team 2. Temporary makes change to boot system online 3. Find the root cause 4. Make changes to prevent such repetitive system failure 5. Add system in monitor tool 6. If possible create a policy when one system fails, redirect load from primary to secondary like HA cluster

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    Hamed Ameri

    Digital Marketing Expert at Suzuki Corporation

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    In such cases, I try to call the main people related to the issue and, by drawing a proper map of the problem, examine the fastest way to solve it. But in the meantime, I try to solve the problem in a basic way so that we can improve it in the future.

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    Cristian Gordillo Bielsa

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    It is mandatory to stablish periodic plannings of the system: A periodic Review of the software (incidents, deviations, CAPAs, user's review) and a periodic maintenance of its instruments (maintenance and calibration plans). It is interesting the possible help of AI in the preventive maintenance.

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    Bayisa Bayana

    [Core System Engineer][PhD Cand. at JIT in IS] [Oracle FCUBS]

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    Some lists To decide longterm prevention strategies: 1. Immediate root cause analysis 2. Categorize the issues. 3. Engage stakeholders 4. Implement a frame work 5. Enhance training and processes and etc

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