Next-Gen Automation
Network Intent
The no-code building blocks of network automation. Capture automated assessments from your subject-matter experts to achieve the desired outcomes in your multi-vendor network.No-Code Network Intents populate and expand your Automation Library, supporting a wide range of devices and integrating seamlessly across your NetBrain Next-Gen platform to ensure your intended operational behaviors are met through real-time assessment and diagnosis.
- Real-Time Assessment: Continually assess any network component to verify specific operating conditions or status.
- Expert Diagnosis: Codify and automate the diagnostic steps taken by your network experts during troubleshooting, change, and assessments.
- Human-Level Logic: Apply logic to real-time, historical, and baseline network conditions to determine the success or failure of your intended outcomes.
- Extensible Library: Contribute to and expand your centralized and shareable Automation Library.
- Scalable Automation: Replicate and reuse throughout the NetBrain platform and across your network for preventing outages, faster troubleshooting, and safer network changes.
- Broad Device Support: Supports any traditional or virtual device from any vendor through its native command interface.
Top Network Intents from Users
The Network Intents below are just a few of the top reported uses of NetBrain No-Code Automation applied to real-world customer infrastructures.
| Topic | Challenge | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance Validation for AWS EC2 Instances | Time-consuming to manually track EC2 instance configuration details. | Intents continuously assess each operating parameter across all instances. |
| Native VLAN Compliance Check | Identify trunk ports with non-compliant native VLANs on a regular basis. | Intents verify the configuration of trunk ports to detect non-compliant VLANs enabled. |
| # Days Since Interface Down | Manually identifying ALL/ANY inactive physical ports for service provisioning. | Intents assess the number of days since interfaces had active status. |
| Administrator password access compliance | Manually identifying device access security across the network. | Intents assess devices with password access violations across the entire network. |
| Proactive CISCO ACI Performance & Service Assurance | Widescale deployments of Cisco ACI include thousands of operating parameters that should be verified. | Intents assess the amount of available CPU and memory for the entire fabric. |
| Monitoring Transient OSPF Neighbor Flaps Using Log Analysis | Limited ability to detect transient flapping at scale due to size and complexity. | Intents continuously assess OSPF neighbor state changes over time |
| Failover and resiliency validation | Difficult to verify the entire failover architecture until it is too late | Intents assess availability and performance for all resiliency pathways; active and backup |
