Atechnician in a large corporation fixes a printer that wasn’t receiving an ip address automatically by manually assigning it an address. the address was assigned to the server that other technicians were repairing. when the server was repaired and brought online, it no longer worked properly. how could this problem have been avoided?

Change management

Explanation: Change management is the mechanism which helps to deal with the change implementation properly and effectively, controlling the change plan and adaption of change by the members of any organization or company and devices.

The situation mentioned in the question is not having the change management plan implementation properly.The repaired server that was assigned with the address that is not executing properly due to the changes that are made while repairing. Thus, proper change management mechanism will solve the issue.

Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with the transition or transformation of an organization's goals, processes or technologies. The purpose of change management is to implement strategies for effecting change, controlling change and helping people to adapt to change.