Lowering the "friction" of doing a task improves the chance it will get done.
Which give the trouble misconfigured software has caused recently is pretty important.
Of course you need the process to do this as well.
In February, network automation company Ubiqube released another network management framework into the open source world. The Register spoke to CTO Hervé Guesdon to understand the company's hopes for its OpenMSA tools. OpenMSA is the Open Modelling and Simulation architecture, and Guesdon described it as a way of presenting …
Not sure who they are talking to, or what sort of networking they have, but with the exeption of the slowly improving cisco GUI's this is simple to do from just about any vendor's management tool. try provisioning 4000 switch ports before the devices are installed with 1 click on the Cisco Meraki portal.
See:
Dell OMNM
Xtreme (Avaya) COM
Cisco Prime LMS
any of the cloud managed platforms.