Summary
The fundamental elements of a troubleshooting process are as follows:
- Defining the problem
- Gathering information
- Analyzing information
- Eliminating possible causes
- Formulating a hypothesis
- Testing the hypothesis
- Solving the problem
Some commonly used troubleshooting approaches are as follows:
- Top-down
- Bottom-up
- Divide-and-conquer
- Follow-the-path
- Compare-configurations
- Swap-components