Sunday, 10 June 2018

8 ways to build a future-proof organization

by Chris Gagnon and Aaron De Smet
 
Here is today’s reality: The average large firm reorganizes every 2-3 years and it takes over 18 months. With technology advances changing everything, wait and see isn’t an option.

Those who get it right are creating adaptive, fast-moving organizations that respond quickly and flexibly to opportunities and challenges. They move intelligent decision-making to the front lines. Their process functions more like a network and less like a chain of command. Gone is the standard, “safer” modus operandi.

One famous retailer empowers its call center employees and, in turn, delivers “wow” service. Instead of being a place typically associated with high stress and a slog for employees, this retailer gave each team member the freedom and authority to truly build relationships with customers. This has led to greater sales numbers, customer engagement and loyalty.

We have identified eight emerging characteristics of the organization of the future. We see versions of these elements so often, they provide at least the organizational outline to win:
  1. Worship speed. It’s an imperative. Look at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ April 2017 letter to shareholders. Bezos highlights making “high-velocity” decisions. “If you’re good at course correcting,” he contends, “being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”
  2. Shift to an emergent strategy. One that entails a relentless quest and an undefined end point. The pursuit should involve unceasing questioning of “How do we add value?” and an organizational platform that formulates an emergent mix of multiple strategies executed immediately.
  3. Unleash decision-making. Grasp how your organization operates and reflects its core proposition. This includes understanding how to handle “big-bet” decisions shaping your company’s future, “cross-cutting” decisions like pricing and new product launches, and low-stakes “delegated” and “ad hoc” decisions that arise unexpectedly.
  4. Reimagine your structure. The more interconnected your organization and the more decision-making diffuses, the easier it becomes to sustain high performance. Even the most hierarchical chain of command – the U.S. military – moved to decentralize decision authority to help beat back Al Qaeda’s Iraqi-based forces. Free your initiatives and decisions from unnecessary hierarchy.
  5. Personalize talent programs. New people analytics tools are helping organizations manage and develop their people with greater precision. After extensive training, for example, a fast-food restaurant chain identified and taught behaviors that inspired colleagues.
  6. Rethink your leadership model. Leadership can come from anyone. In agile organizations, leaders lead more by influence than control. When we ask executives how to solve a given issue, only a few consider how to create conditions in which an ecosystem can largely self-manage, where individuals learn and problems are avoided before they manifest. Yet, we believe the future will demand this.
  7. Adopt a recipe to run the place. Siloed firms execute a wide array of processes and practices differently across the organization, generating an incongruous hash. The healthiest firms able to sustain performance and renew over time employ a simpler approach. They don’t sample à la carte.
  8. Cultivate purpose, values and social connection. Future organizations will emphasize aligning around common principles. Participants will use defined rules of engagement in decision-making, collaborate to create value and earn the credibility to lead rather than have leadership imposed from above.
Reorganizations are hard to get right. They distract senior leadership on down. They trigger real consequences for meeting investor expectations. They run the risk of bewildering employees. But in the face of today’s massive disruptions, an ethos of urgency actually serves to smooth gyrations between “hurry up” and “settle in.”

Those who get it right create adaptive, fast-moving organizations that respond quickly and flexibly to opportunities and challenges. They move intelligent decision-making to the front lines. Their process functions more like a network and less like a chain of command. By combining urgency with agility, capability and identity, you generate an organization that can play fast and long. That’s the future.

Friday, 1 June 2018

17.4R1-S3: Software Release Notification for Junos Software Service Release version 17.4R1-S3

Alert Type:

SRN - Software Release Notification
Product Affected:
MX, MX 10003, PTX 10008/10016, PTX3000/5000, EX4300, EX4600, EX9200, QFX5100, QFX5110, QFX5200, QFX10002/8/16, SRX1500, SRX300, SRX320, SRX340, SRX345, SRX4100, SRX4200, SRX4600, SRX5400, SRX5800, SRX550 M, VMX, VMX-nested, VRR, Network Agent, vSRX, NFX250
Alert Description:
Junos Software Service Release version is now available for download from the Junos software download site
Download Junos Software Service Release:
  1. Go to Junos Platforms - Download Software page
  2. Select your product
  3. From the Type/OS drop-down menu, select Junos SR
  4. From the Version drop-down menu, select your version
  5. Click the Software tab
  6. Select the Install Package as need and follow the prompts
 
Solution:
Junos Software service Release version 17.4R1-S3 is now available.

The following are incremental changes in 17.4R1-S3.

 
PR Number Synopsis Description
1115686 RPD memory leak caused by repeated RSVP RSB (reservation state block) deletes When an RSVP path is deleted (because of LSP deletion or switch-over to new path) RSB (Reservation state block) data structure has to be deleted to free up memory. When RSB deletion is performed, LSP attribute object in RSB is not deleted by RPD. This causes build up of RPD memory usage over a period of time (memory leak). Build up of RPD memory is proportional to the frequency of RSB deletes.
1265548 Traffic drop on MPC with "Link sanity checks" and "Cell underflow" errors When certain hardware transient failures occur on an MQ-chip based MPC, traffic might be dropped on the MPC, and syslog errors "Link sanity checks" and "Cell underflow" are reported. There is no major alarm or self-healing mechanism for this condition.
1275766 The rpd may crash in LDP L2circuit scenario In an L2 circuit scenario, while processing an advertisement of LDP signaled L2 circuit, it gets stale binded because of the corrupted LDP structure. As a result, the rpd crashes.
1278153 After bfdd restart seen issue with ng mvpn and l2vpn route exchange causing mVPN and vpls traffic drop bfd daemon kill or restart on PE router is causing issue with ng mvpn and l2vpn route exchange and result is traffic drop. Work around is to clear bgp neighbor on router reflector.
1293014 traffic drop during NSR switchover for RSVP P2MP provider tunnels used by MVPN When next-generation MVPN is configured with RSVP provider tunnels and NSR is used, then the egress router for the tunnel might not correctly replicate some of the tunnel state to the backup Routing Engine, leading to temporary traffic loss during NSR failover for the affected tunnels.
1298175 L2TP subscribers might get stuck in terminating state during login. Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) and L2TP access concentrator (LAC) subscribers might get stuck in terminating state because of the race condition during login.
1298612 MX platforms may display false positive CB alarm "PMBus Device Fail". MX platforms may display false positive CB alarm "PMBus Device Fail".
1299580 The traffic in P2MP tunnel might be lost when NG-MVPN uses RSVP-TE In the case of NG-MVPN (Next-Generation Multicast VPN) and RSVP-TE (Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic Engineering) are configured at the same time, the traffic in P2MP tunnel might be lost if NG-MVPN has more than one routing instances on router.
1300716 Interfaces might go down when PFE encounters "TOE::FATAL ERROR" Interfaces might go down when PFE (Packet Forwarding Engine) encounters "TOE::FATAL ERROR" (TOE is a module in PFE, the fatal error can be caused either by software issue or hardware issues like memory parity errors or others). Please reboot the line card to recover the service when hitting the issue.
1300989 Condition based policy fails to take action even though condition is matched When the policy condition configurations are used in export policy in BGP add-path scenario, condition based policy fails to take action even though condition is matched.
1303459 Fan speed changes frequently on MX Series after an upgrade to JUNOS software with the change introduced by PR:1244375 On routers with XM-chip based line cards (e.g., MX platform with MPC3E/4E/5E/6E/2E-NG/3E-NG), log messages might report fan speed changes between full and normal speed continuously, due to XM-chip reaches a temperature threshold.
1305284 Dfwd might crash during execution of "show firewall templates-in-use" command In a subscriber-management environment, dfwd process might crash during execution of "show firewall templates-in-use" command if a CLI session disconnects before the complete output of this command is received.
1306930 The RSVP node-hello packet might not work correctly after the next-hop for remote destination is changed An unexpected error such as an RSVP authentication failure, or an RSVP node-hello packet is rejected when the next-hop for remote node's loopback is changed. 
1309288 PFE error messages are flooding as "expr_sensor_update_cntr_to_sid_tree" after delete and rollback "protocols isis source-packet-routing node-segment " This problem would occur when we do delete and rollback protocols isis source-packet-routing node-segment. This could lead to router streaming incorrect counter values for SR stats
1312117 The rpd process might crash if LDP updates the label for BGP route When LDP egress-policy is configured for the BGP route and a label is received for a BGP route in inet.0 table from LDP, if BGP receives a new label for the same BGP route matching the LDP egress-policy, rpd might crash because of updating the new label.
1312336 PEM alarms and I2C Failures are observed on MX240/MX480/MX960/EX92/SRX5K series On MX240/MX480/MX960/EX92/SRX5K series, PEM alarms and I2C Failures with PCF8584 are observed.
1315009 The L2TP LAC might drop packets that have incorrect payload length while sending packets to the LNS On all MX-Series platform, if the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) subscribers runs on Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Access Concentrator (LAC) over dual-tagged VLAN and auto-sensed VLANs, all the packets that are being sent to the L2TP Network Server (LNS) might be dropped, because the LAC Ethernet pads the PPPoE packets with larger size.
1315207 Service Interim Missing for Random Users in JSRC scenario Service Interim Missing for Random Users in JSRC scenario
1315577 MX10003 : Despite of having all AC low PEM alarm is raised. Alarm is raised if Mixed AC PEMs are present. Changed the criteria to check whether mixed AC is present.If the PEM is AC(HIGH) first bit of pem_voltage is set and if it is AC(LOW) second bit of pem_voltage is set.So if both first and second bit is set then MIXED AC is present
1316192 The FAN speed might frequently keep changing between normal and full for MX platform On MX platform with MPC cards, frequent FAN speed change might be seen.
1317011 Log messages "L2ALM Trying peer/master connection, status 26" is showed on SRX device Fix for internal L2ALM connection on SRX5K between IOC cards and RE. It will prevent repeating of following log message "L2ALM Trying peer/master connection, status 26."
1317019 The PPPOE subscribers might encounter connection failure during login In Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPOE) subscriber environment, If one subscriber logs in with incorrect radius attribute(such as Framed-IP-Address, Framed-IPv6-Prefix, Delegated-IPv6-Prefix attribute is logically 0; Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254) and then logs out, all the subscribers on the same Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) might not be able to reconnect.
1317023 lsdb entry cleanup may cause rpd crash, if loop free alternative is configured When isis database is cleaned, rpd crash may be observed if loop free alternative is configured. isis database can be cleaned even when isis is deactivated.
1317132 The policy configuration might not be evaluated if policy expression is changed If Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) import policy is configured with a policy expression, the configuration might not be evaluated after the policy expression is changed later.
1317223 The output from "show configuration <> | display json" might not be properly enclosed in double quotes If the output from "show configuration <> | display json" contains alpha-numeric (like 10m, 512k etc) or wildcard (like <*>), and the alpha-numeric or wildcard represents a number, they might not be enclosed in double quotes.
1317536 The rpd might crash after the primary link failure of link protection If there are some LSPs for which a router has make link protection available and when primary link failure is caused by FPC restart, this core may occur.
1317542 Multicast traffic is not forwarded on the newly added P2MP branch/receiver Multicast traffic is not forwarded on the newly added P2MP branch/receiver due to Multicast indirect NH and alternate forwarding NH (snooping route) go out of sync after receiver is leaving the group.
1317623 The inactive route cannot be installed in multipath next-hop after disabling and enabling the next-hop interface in L3VPN scenario In some circumstances, a route from a BGP peer in a VRF may have an incorrect multipath attribute.
1318476 The rpd might crash when the link flaps on an adjacent router The rpd (Routing Protocol Process) might crash during heavy next hops churn.
1318528 The daemon bbe-smgd may crash after performing GRES In subscriber management scenario with Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) configured, bbe-smgd may crash if performing graceful routing engine switchover (GRES) during PPPoE subscribers login. This is a timing issue and only part of the subscribers may get synced to the standby RE in this case.
1318677 FPC crash on configuration change for PFE sensors On receiving a configuration change for PFE sensors in the middle of a reap cycle there is a chance that the PFE might crash due to invalid data access. This is a timing issue and related to the length of time it takes to reap the sensors.
1319338 ISIS might choose a sub-optimal path after the metric change in ECMP links On a busy system when ISIS interface metric configuration is changed for ECMP links, ISIS might choose a sub-optimal path instead of the best path. The issue will clear itself if a full LSP (Link State PDU) re-generation (e.g. LSP refresh is triggered because of LSP aged or clear ISIS database) happens.
1320254 2-3 secs packets loss is seen every 5 mins on Junos Fusion On Junos Fusion Enterprise/Provider Edge platforms with feature dot1.x is configured, if the FPC has no interface as cascade port on Aggregation Devices (ADs), 2-3 secs packets loss might be seen every 5 minutes.
1320585 Move XQ_CMERROR_XR_CORRECTABLE_ECC_ERR to minor and re-classify remaining XQCHIP CMERROR from FATAL to MAJOR The default severity of the correctable ECC errors on MX Series routers with MPC2E NG Q, MPC3E NG Q, or MPC5E has been changed from Fatal to Major. This helps in avoiding instances of line card restart caused by Fatal errors, thereby preventing any potential operational impacts for users.
1320880 PPP inline keepalive does not work fine as expected when CPE aborts the subscriber session For DSL (Digital subscriber line) subscribers such as PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet), when a CPE (customer premises equipment) device is administratively powered off, the BRAS (Broadband Remote Access Server) terminates the subscriber as expected upon the expiry of configured PPP LCP (Link Control Protocol) keapalive value. However, in a scaled scenario, a few subscriber sessions remain active even the keepalive has expired, due to which the same CPE (client) cannot reconnect unless the former sessions are cleared/deleted from the server or the client waits for extended amount of time to make sure the server internally clears those sessions.
1321122 The traffic with more than 2 VLAN tags might be incorrectly rewritten and sent out On MX with MPC1E/MPC2E/MPC 3D 16x 10GE/MPC3E/MP4E, EX9200 switch or T4000 with type 5 card, if the interface is configured with input-vlan-map option, then the traffic with more than 2 VLAN tags might be incorrectly rewritten and sent out, then it will cause the traffic to be dropped.
1321952 The rpd might crash due to memory leak in RSVP scenario When make-before-break (MBB) such as re-optimization, auto-bandwidth and interoperate with older releases happens in RSVP scenario, the rpd might crash.
1323256 Commands "show chassis environment pem" and "show chassis power" do not show 'input voltage' correctly. On SRX5K devices, DC PEM is used on the box, the output of "show chassis environment pem" and "show chassis power" commands do not show DC input value correctly.
1325271 MPC cards might drop traffic under high temperature When some specific MPC cards (MPC3E/4E/5E/6E/2E-NG/3E-NG) work under high temperature (around 67C or higher), XM-DDR3 memory refresh interval will be reduced and hence DDR bandwidth and Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) forwarding capacity will be reduced. As a result, traffic might get dropped.
1326584 On SRX5400, SRX5600, and SRX5800 devices, SPC2 XLP stops processing packets in the ingress direction after repeated RSI collections. SRX5400/5600/5800 platforms using SRX5K-SPC-4-15-320 (SPCII) may encounter a XLP buffer leak during Request Support Information (RSI) data collections, which resulting in intermittent packet loss or complete loss of ingress packets. 
1326899 The rpd process might crash continuously on both REs when "backup-spf-options remote-backup-calculation" is configured in ISIS protocol If the knob "backup-spf-options remote-backup-calculation" is being used for remote loop-free alternate (LFA) backup path in Intermediate system to Intermediate system (ISIS) protocol and some routes have both IP and label-switched path (LSP) backups, the rpd process might crash continuously on both master Routing Engine (RE) and backup RE.
1327723 The MAC might not be learnt on MX Trio-based card due to the negative value of the bridge MAC table limit counter The MAC might not be learnt on MX Trio-based card due to the negative value of the bridge MAC table limit counter.
1327724 The packet might get dropped in LSR if MPLS pseudowire payload does not have control word and its destination MAC starts with '4' When the label-switching router (LSR) works on MX Series with MPCs/MICs platforms or vMX and LSR carries MPLS pseudowire (such as l2circuit(LDP based)/l2vpn(BGP based)/VPLS) traffic, the packet might get dropped if the MPLS pseudowire payload does not have control word and its destination MAC starts with '4'.
1327904 Multiple next-hops may not be installed for IBGP multipath route after IGP route update Multiple next-hops may not be installed for an internal BGP(IBGP) route received from a multipath-enabled peer when an active IBGP route from a non-multipath-enabled peer is changed to a new active route from a multipath-enabled peer due to interior gateway protocol(IGP) route update.
1328570 Directories and files under /var/db/scripts lose execution permission or directory 'jet' is missing under /var/db/scripts causing "error: Invalid directory: No such file or directory" error during commit On MX10003, MX150, MX204, MX240/480/960 with RE-S-X6-64G, MX2010/MX2020 with REMX2K-X8-64G, PTX1000, PTX10008, PTX10016, QFX10000, QFX5200, SRX1500, SRX4100, SRX4200 platforms: execution is denied when running automation script stored in Junos automation folder(/var/db/scripts) or directory 'jet' is missing under /var/db/scripts causing "error: Invalid directory: No such file or directory" error during commit.
1329013 With BGP/LDP/ISIS configurations, deleted ISIS routes may still be visible in RIB With BGP/LDP/ISIS configurations, deleted ISIS routes may still be present in the RIB The PR does not affect or have any impact on route selection or other functionality of RPD. Just that deleted ISIS routes don't get removed with specific configurations.
1330150 Not all CSURQ replied Not all CSURQ messages are replied in case the number of sessions addressed in CSURQ is more than about 107. 
1331185 The dcd process might crash due to memory leak and causing commit failure In some situations, like multiple commit in a short time with scaled configuration, dcd memory leak might occur. This could cause commit to fail.
1332153 Router hits db prompt at netisr_process_workstream_proto Due to an issue with a lock protected variable of netisr queue and if rate limiting also kicks in, the count of remaining packets in netisr queue becomes wrong. This leads to kernel crash or db prompt.
1333265 The subinfo process might crash and it might cause the PPPOE subscribers to get disconnected On MX-Series platforms with a Point-to-Point over Ethernet (PPPoE) subscriber environment, in order to increase overall system performance of subscriber accessing, after optimizing the Session Database (SDB) using Short Term Storage (STS) cache, the subinfo process might crash and might cause the SDB of MX subscriber to experience a down event. As a result, the PPPOE subscribers might get disconnected from the MX.
1333380 The log messages file is filled with message "node*.fpc*.pic* Status:1000 from if_np for ifl_copnfig op:2 for ifl :104" On all SRX Series devices running with Junos OS Release 17.4R1 or onwards, the log messages file is filled with message "node*.fpc*.pic* Status:1000 from if_np for ifl_copnfig op:2 for ifl :104" and "node*.fpc*.pic* IFL: Error:1000 while changing IFL 104 index to UP".
1335319 BGP sessions get stuck in active state after remote end (Cisco) restart the device In BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) environment, BGP sessions get stuck in active state after remote Cisco router restart or update the device.
1335486 Log "No Port is enabled for FPC# on node0" genereated every 5 seconds. Since 12.3X48-D55 on SRX5K, the below unnecessary log is observed in chassisd log every 5 seconds. "No Port is enabled for FPC# on node0" The log is removed in 12.3X48-D70 & 15.1X49-D140.
1335914 The rpd process memory leak is observed upon any changes in VPLS configuration like deleting/re-adding VPLS interfaces In Virtual private LAN service (VPLS) scenarios, any changes in VPLS configuration like deleting/re-adding VPLS instances or deleting/re-adding VPLS interfaces might cause the rpd process memory leak. The memory leak rate is 14 bytes per VPLS interface.
1336207 PTX device may get to abnormal state due to the malfunction of the protection mechanism for F-Label On 16.1 onwards, PTX device may get to abnormal state due to F-Label exhaustion. The protection mechanism for warning and protecting F-Label exhaustion malfunctions on these releases after network churn.
1336946 Configuring "lldp neighbour-port-info-display port-id" doesn't take any effect When configuring ""lldp neighbour-port-info-display port-id", supposedly we should see interface's name on "Port's Info" when we do "show lldp neighbor", but it does not take effect on certain software versions.
1340264 The MX10003 MPC off-line button is not effective Off-line button to bring an MPC off-line does not work.
1340612 PTX FPC Link down after router reboot or flap In a rare case on PECHIP based PTX FPCs DFE tuning can end up with port staying down 
1341336 The rpd crash might occur when receiving BGP updates From Junos 16.1R1 onwards, there might be a mismatch in the length of BGP update message between BGP main thread and I/O thread when receiving BGP updates. If this issue happens, rpd crash might be seen.
1342481 The rpd may crash when BGP flaps When EBGP peer connections with labeled-unicast capability flap if a newly received label information is the same as an existing route, the Routing Protocole Daemon may restart unexpectedly.
1344732 PTX1008: 30-Port Coherent Line Card (DWDM-lC) does not come up Applicable to only 17.4R1-S2: PTX1008 30-Port Coherent Line Card (DWDM-LC) will not come up in the release 17.4R1-S2
1345275 SRX1500 devices may encounter a failure accessing SSD drive SRX1500 devices may encounter a loss in reading/writing access to SSD drive due to an incorrect calculation error during read/write operations with SSD firmware version 560ABBF0.
1345365 [ EX9208] / [ 17.4R1.16 ] Dot1x Re-authentication issue During the authentication process the VOIP phone mac is added to both data and voice VLAN. Later the VOIP phone will be sending tagged frames out over voice VLAN only. Now the mac entry in the data VLAN will get Age out and that process will trigger the delete of that MAC in data VLAN. DOT1x process was not comparing the MAC state learnt on both the data and voice VLAN and later when re-authentication triggered it finds MAC Ageout and clears the dot1x session. This is a bug and will be fixed in the next release.
1345519 The rpd might crash if the IRB interface and routing instance are deleted together in the same committing On all MX Series platform with Ethernet VPN (EVPN) scenario, the rpd might crash if the Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) interface and routing instance are deleted together in the same committing operation.
1345882 Summit 3RU: MAC address of multiple interfaces are found to be duplicate. Duplicate MAC address seen on interfaces on different PIC
1346054 Summit: Routing engine Model changed from JNP10003-RE1 to RE-S-1600x8 There is a change in RE model for MX10003 and MX204, these changes will be shown in show chassis hardware and show chassis routing-engine.
1347250 When in hadrware-assited-pm-mode and pm config is scale, deativate eth-oam can lead to fpc crash When eth-oam is deactivated with scale PM config (under hardware-assited-pm-mode), the FPC can become unstable and can lead to FPC core
1348089 EVPN-VXLAN: MX: Output policing action does not work on irb interfaces for VNIs Output policing action for EVPN VXLAN may not be applied to an interface despite configuration on the irb interface.
1348607 The rpd might crash while restart routing or deactivate ISIS In Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (ISIS) segment routing environment with the mapping-server feature enabled, rpd might crash while restart routing or deactivate ISIS configuration. The rpd will recovery itself.
1348753 Chassisd memory leak issue on MX10003 and MX204 platform and it would cause eventual RE switchover and crash. Chassisd process running on MX10003 and MX204 platform will be leaking memory. Memory leak happens as long as chassisd is working and there is no way to stop leaking. This would cause eventual RE switchover and chassisd crash.
1349228 The mspmand process might crash when executing "show services nat deterministic-nat nat-port-block" command With Network Address Translation (NAT) configured on MS-MPC/MS-MIC, if a NAT rule is configured with multiple terms and the first term has 'no-translation' type configured, executing 'show services nat deterministic-nat nat-port-block' command might cause the mspmand process crash.
1351203 pfed process consuming 80-90% cpu running subscriber management on PPC based routers pfed process consumes high cpu on PPC based routers running subscriber management. This includes MX5-MX80 and MX104.
1353111 "Chassis Manager Daemon - chassisd" memory leak Memory leak in chassisd
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