Hi Heena.
Apologies for infering with this thread, but please kindly relay to the IT (or managent?) team that a multitude of dead links can easily be found on broadcom.com alone, specificially when simply venturing just a few minutes into the areas of the web site that integrate Automic/CA things. See
this recent thread (which, kudos, some colleagues from Broadcom already took note of) for actual examples of whole pages and subsections of 404's.
More importantly though, please relay to the deciders that several customers, not just myself, have pointed out several times in the past that commercial or free link checking tools exist.
This is purely my personal opinion, I don't know how Remco's mileage will be: But as a client I am willing to help companies that demonstrate some ability to help themselves. I can't justify to report every broken link I encounter with Broadcom/CA on my employer's dime, because that's way to many. And not only didn't Automic/CA/Broadcom, over that heritage,
never demonstrate any effective willingness to address this very long standing problem on their own, making this already a very one sided give and take. Also, I (and surely others)
have reported
some bad links and also certificates here or in other ways, and found it not to be an effective or sometimes not even very pleasant experience.
For example: Broadcom is now owning support.automic.com and various other domains, and is redirecting them. Yet it has an expired SSL certificate, making the redirect insecure. I mentioned this one repeatedly. As with finding the majority of dead links on their own: surely Broadcom must have inherited a list of SSL certificates/domains it now owns from CA !?
I don't know your mileage, but when I research software and stumble upon something like the former Automic repository of web resources in it's current state, this makes me not want to buy that software. If that company is a major player in Automation, doubly so. It should really be in Broadcom's interrest to get proactive now. And if that inherited CA web stuff isn't salvageable in places, maybe it's time for Broadcom to own up to that, too.
Just my two cents.
Best,
Carsten