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>>belter+(OP)
I used to do remote work in firewalls quite often, and after locking myself out once or twice, I came up with a new habit: before making any changes I would schedule a reboot for 5min out which would revert any changes. That way if I locked myself out I could just wait for the reboot and get back in.

>>Nifty3+5n1
And then if it worked for those 5 min before the reboot, you'd redeploy the change 'for real', without a reboot?

>>dang+ey1
My typical workflow was:

- Schedule the reboot

- do my changes

- Make sure everything was working properly

- Go get lunch

- Notice a bunch of pages and alarms about a firewall going offline

- Rush back to my office

- Login to the firewall

- Schedule the reboot

- Re apply the changes

- Test it again

- CANCEL THE FING REBOOT THIS TIME

- Eat my now cold lunch