{"id":1507,"date":"2021-02-12T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2022-04-05T02:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:07:06","slug":"how-to-ask-the-cisco-community-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"How to Ask The Cisco Community for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been actively contributing to Cisco Community last 4 years and have learned a lot with community questions and answered by myself and other community legends and mates over there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community means &#8211; There is no Money involvement, its just pure volunteered services &#8211; and their personal time(that we can calculate the cost for that)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so I was thinking to write a blog &#8211; about how one can help this Cisco community by asking questions and providing a good amount of information, which can save a lot of time who read the post and answer the post in a quick manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Before asking the question, have you spent some time googled the problem encountered in your situation (rather than dumping the question on hundreds of people&#8217;s heads to think about your issue)?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have you posted the issue on the right Forum &#8211; if not it will take ages for the community to understand the issue and address the issue.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image.png 957w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-768x216.png 768w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-705x198.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Describe the problem in a manner so the community can understand it easily and address the problem incorrect way.<ul><li>Device Model.<\/li><li>IOS code running on the device.<\/li><li> What is the issue in brief in your own way of description?<\/li><li>The upgrade-related issue, what was the old version &#8211; what version are you upgrading to.<\/li><li>Configuration issue &#8211; post a simple network diagram for us to understand your network so easily that one can understand and suggest a better way to your problem.<\/li><li>Provide the configuration where possible (most of the time) by removing sensitive information.<\/li><li>post some output with show commands.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Sometimes some of the issues may be Major &#8211; the community may not have a reply in time, in this situation we always suggest contacting Cisco TAC for emergency issues. (Community is not a Cisco TAC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helping the Community is helping yourself &#8230;!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Labbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbing !!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been actively contributing to Cisco Community last 4 years and have learned a lot with community questions and answered by myself and other community legends and mates over there. Community means &#8211; There is no Money involvement, its just pure volunteered services &#8211; and their personal time(that we can calculate the cost for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}