{"id":347,"date":"2019-07-01T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/?p=347"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:35:34","slug":"the-questions-of-fault-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/2019\/07\/01\/the-questions-of-fault-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Questions of Fault Finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are so important when fault-finding; the more data you have, the more visibility you have of the situation.<\/p>\n<h3>What, Where, When<\/h3>\n<p>If you know <b>what<\/b> failed, <b>where<\/b> it failed, and\/or <b>when<\/b> it failed then extraneous data can be discarded if it doesn&#8217;t match the answers to these questions.<\/p>\n<p>Would you really want to discard data? Surely the more data you have the better? Well, yes, to a point. But the objective is to find the fault; anything else is noise and may distract from the objective.<\/p>\n<h3>Why<\/h3>\n<p>This is the answer you really want; you might know the <b>what<\/b>, the <b>where<\/b>, and the <b>when<\/b>, but until you can explain <b>why<\/b> you cannot fix the problem. Fault finding is about taking the <b>what<\/b>, <b>where<\/b>, and <b>when<\/b>, and coming up with the <b>why<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>How<\/h3>\n<p><b>How<\/b> you fix the issue is up to you; if you know why a system doesn&#8217;t work then you have many options of how to deal with that problem. It might involve replacement, repair, or just plain ignoring the issue if it isn&#8217;t worth addressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are so important when fault-finding; the more data you have, the more visibility you have of the situation. What, Where, When If you know what failed, where it failed, and\/or when it failed then extraneous data can be discarded if it doesn&#8217;t match the answers to these questions. Would you really want to discard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/2019\/07\/01\/the-questions-of-fault-finding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Questions of Fault Finding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}