Re: Testing Out Of Band Management Tooling

[Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

By gov edict my clients have monthly DR testing, because that’s SOP for public safety agencies. These tests exercise 
everything, including power failure and  opsec communications (oobm for humans) in the event of a data breach. The 
trick is to not get complacent about noting small discrepancies in these tests. I don’t see many private sector 
companies doing this.

 -mel

> On Dec 23, 2025, at 11:00 AM, Andrew Latham via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> All
>
> Related to the Serial console topic I wanted to do a quick test. I hit
> a hiccup in my documentation and addressed it.
>
> Questions:
> A: How often should one do dry run testing on OOBM?
> B: How often should one call and confirm emergency numbers for remote
> vendor sites?
> C: How could Out Of Band Management equipment be monitored better in 2025?
>
> If you have other thoughts about questions, pop them in starting at D
>
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