Manage your Network by Intent, not by Device

Align your network with how your business thinks

Accelerate the Diagnosis of Every Ticket

Reduce the duration and overhead associated with solving network problems

Prevent Outages Through Enforcement

Continuous enforcement of network intentions to prevent IT service outages

Intelligent Network Automation for Day-2 Operations

Capture Intent with Dynamic Mapping

Encoding the hybrid network to establish the network intents of each component

Verify Policies and

Best Practices
The set of diagnostic processes needed for each network intent to establish compliance

Enforce Network Design to Maintain Benchmarks

The continuous validation that all defined network intents are being fully met

Simplify Network Operations Through Network Intent

Prevent outages and service disruptions before they impact the business

Time is everything, so responding instantly resolves issues quickly

Preventing the unintended consequences of change and not overwriting current changes with future changes

The needs of each application are maintained, preventing a ‘slow’ response

End-to-End Network Automation, including the Public Cloud!
Continuous verification that security hardware & software is active

“Troubleshooting without NetBrain is like troubleshooting in the dark
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Network automation is a process that involves using software to help reduce human intervention by managing network and security processes, especially repetitive ones
The goal is to improve network speed, consistency, uptime, and service delivery with minimal human effort and cost
Network automation software systems that can operate any hybrid network
You can apply network automation to tasks including network provisioning, configuration, mapping, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting

Provisioning or changing device configurations is one of the best-known network automation software use cases
The most significant benefit of automated provisioning is not modifying a single configuration (which is easy enough to do) but applying these changes to multiple devices simultaneously
Such a repetitive process can be error-prone when done manually, which can be avoided with an intelligent network automation tool

Another use case for network automation is collaboration via an automation platform portal that reduces bottlenecks from escalations to subject matter experts and reduces the manpower needed to perform manual scripting to execute tasks
These platforms typically provide templates with knowledge from subject matter experts to allow anyone to perform operational tasks in a UI to rapidly address any existing problems that repeatedly arise

Intent-based network automation includes the use of human or artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to abstract device configurations into business and network intents and understands what network intents to apply to enforce network policies
By capturing intents, network automation tools can automatically verify network performance to prevent configuration and compliance drift and maintain application service levels
When configurations drift away from the original network architecture designs, network automation becomes aware and offers the appropriate intents to the users so they can bring network conditions back to their baselines

A network management automation tool is also responsible for automating Day-2 operational work such as managing and expediting the resolution of service incidents, maintaining regulatory compliance, and validating network performance, especially in cases of adding new applications and services
This gives IT the ability to manage more complex networks more effectively with the same number of resources
Plus, it helps with performing routine maintenance tasks that take up essential resources’ valuable time
The ability to “set and forget” them with automation means network admins can perform more meaningful tasks while still preventing network downtime

According to Gartner: Network automation tools help to automate provisioning/configuration, troubleshooting, operations/maintenance, validation, and reporting of network components
Network automation tools typically interact with routers, switches, firewalls, application delivery controllers, service provider components (WAN circuits), and cloud provider services (VPCs and load balancers, for example)
Network automation tools are delivered as software and may support one or multiple vendors
The tools allow for increased agility and efficiency while lowering costs, reducing the amount of manual human errors, and improving compliance with required rules, regulations, and laws
Network automation tools allow organizations to make network changes across hundreds, thousands, or more devices in short periods of time

There’s no single way to achieve network automation
The simplest way is perhaps using scripts or commands to execute tasks automatically or en masse
Tools that leverage open, RESTful
APIs via a Python or Javascript to expose more functionality and integrate with more tools such as IT service management and SIEM tools and allow for data export