The Network Automation Blog

CLI parsers are specialized files that essentially tell your system the following: “for CLI output [X], here’s how to distinguish the important variables [Y] & [Z] from the rest of…

No question, preparing for a network compliance audit can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive ordeal that can take weeks (maybe months). If you’re like most enterprise network teams, by the time you’ve…

Twice a month, we highlight five popular news stories from the world of networking, security and automation. Here are the top five stories from the last two weeks: 5 Signs…

Last week, I discussed 6 of the most common use cases for automation that NetBrain customers have implemented in their networking environments. Using Runbooks, clients have been able to eliminate the overhead…

Twice a month, we highlight five popular news stories from the world of networking, security and automation. Here are the top five stories from the last two weeks: IoT Analytics…

I went to a trade show for NetBrain recently, and one thing that kept surprising me was how much people knew about NetBrain’s Dynamic Maps, yet how little they knew…

Today’s 24×7 network monitoring solutions have gotten really good at alerting on issues on the network, but even the best ones don’t really help teams solve network problems. Monitoring tools…

You never know how complicated your job is until you have to explain it to somebody. About two years ago, I was training my replacement and I realized how many…

A/B Path behaves like a network engineer, logging into devices hop-by-hop to mimic the actual path of a packet along a network. It will consider policies, ACLs, routing tables, and…