Automation for Network Leaders
As a network operations manager or leader, you are responsible for the changes that drive success. One critical change to consider is switching from manual network management to automated management....
What if you could multiply your automated scripts (and the ones you wish you had) to all your devices in minutes?
Or, imagine never needing to sit in or conduct another post-mortem again—by being able to proactively preventing the root causes of outages across your entire network.
NetBrain Next-Gen 12.1 combines no-code automation and AI into a single platform that automatically diagnoses and assesses your network for real-time observability and proactive remediation. It gives you a single source of truth and automation that empowers you to proactively identify risks, resolve issues, and ensure your network runs “outage-free”—every day.
The Dreaded Post-Mortem and Fear of the Next Outage
Not only are network outages/attacks/failed changes costly, time-consuming, disruptive, and damaging to your reputation, they could pop up again anywhere, anytime. What if every outage, attack, and change post-mortem also revealed ‘ticking time bombs’ across your hybrid network? -so you could check the rest of your network for the same cause of the outage at the same time.
Network-Wide Post-Mortem Assessments
Even the best networks experience disruptions. The key is how you respond. NetBrain’s Post-Mortem Assessments dive deep into outages, attacks, and changes, uncovering root causes and enabling quick resolutions. By scanning your entire network for similar risks, you can remediate issues before they cause another outage. This holistic approach not only makes your network more reliable, but it also builds trust.
But, the real value lies in what happens next—NetBrain helps you turn these insights into actionable automation. NetBrain’s Golden Assessment (part of the Golden Engineering Studio) further lowers the barrier to automation discovery and creation and continuous outage prevention.
Prevent Outages Automatically with Continuous Assessments
Outages don’t happen out of nowhere—they’re often the result of unnoticed misconfigurations, policy violations, or hidden risks. Now, you can use automated assessments to continuously check for and prevent them before they occur.
By continuously monitoring for violations, you can address vulnerabilities proactively, preventing outages and improving network reliability.
Automated Network Discovery
Going beyond Reverse Engineering in our last release, you can now create a live Digital Twin of your network using two powerful methods, import CLI/config files and discover your live network, capturing everything from device details (hostname, properties, configurations) to L2/L3 topology and path analysis for ACL, QoS, Multicast, and NAT and configurations and policies.
- Import your raw configuration and CLI data in our Playground making data management seamless. Whether you’re working with live networks or offline data, NetBrain ensures a comprehensive, efficient approach to network inventory, mapping and management.
- Discover scans your network and identifies all devices and network components across your environment. Live Data: Collect real-time insights from traditional devices and modern technologies like ACI and AWS.
It’s time to harness your scripting and network knowledge with a platform approach. Ensure your company’s networking knowledge and source of truth isn’t just tribal knowledge but empowers everyone to advance their automation skills.
Even Easier No-Code Automation Creation
The Golden Discovery & Assessment functionality in the Golden Engineering Studio turns manual CLI processes and one-off Python scripts into ready-to-use automation.
We’re introducing Golden Assessment—an AI-powered system that automates network outage prevention and security. Just like annual check-ups and vaccines stop health problems before they occur, our system continuously monitors, diagnoses, and immunizes your network against outages and breaches—before they can impact your business.
Here’s how it delivers value:
Download the Golden Assessment Library which contains ready-to-use assessments including assigned reference clusters, grouping by keywords/device criteria (type, model, version, site, GEO, keyword, config) and built on industry-wide knowledge from Cisco (Business Critical Service), NetBrain, and trusted partners into the centralized Golden Engineering Studio to provide “herd immunity.” These assessments are designed to help you learn from past outages and industry best practices, providing actionable insights to improve your network’s reliability and performance.
- To generate new Golden Assessments: in the Golden Engineering Studio, create new rule definitions, apply them to automatically generated reference clusters of similar devices or create your own, and then assign the reference devices (the devices with the golden config or state). NetBrain analyzes the rules against to calculate the relevant device matches.
Then, publish the automation (config and state check) assets: “golden” assets to the Assessment Library.
Automate Manual Workflows with Mini Assessments
Manual processes are a leading cause of outages, bottlenecks, and high . NetBrain eliminates this risk with no-code automation and AI that simplifies complex workflows.
Next-Gen Runbooks
This technology powers automated workflows. Completely revamped, they now containerize automation (Intent), CLI, Maps, AI Insights, and Document nodes into workflow templates.
Troubleshooting Runbook
A benefit of AI-powered troubleshooting with Runbooks is publishing workflow templates for junior engineers to leverage increasing efficiency accelerating task-based operations. By sharing your knowledge as a Sr. Engineer, you are reducing time spent on both repetitive incidents you already know how to solve and escalations to critical engineers working on service delivery innovation.
Change Management Runbook
From change management to configuration validation, NetBrain ensures every step is executed flawlessly. The Triple Defense feature protects your network before, during, and after changes, preventing errors and configuration drift. By automating repetitive tasks, you not only reduce the risk of outages but also free up your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
NetBrain AI Insight
Take control with NetBrain Insight’s Insight Manager, the centralized AI console that seamlessly integrates AI into your operations, delivering automation and AI results right on a map.
Analyze and summarize any mapped area of your network using AI to automate manual tasks and checks. Gain faster root-cause diagnostics and exponentially enhance network intelligence by leveraging results from tens of thousands of automations simultaneously. Maintain control as the Sr. Engineer while the AI, guided by your expertise, conducts reasoning to answer critical questions about your network.
NetBrain’s AI-driven insights help you tackle a wide range of network challenges with ease. For example:
- Diagnose why R1 interface e0/1 is down or determine why host 10.10.234.1 is unreachable.
- Investigate why R10 BGP neighbor 20.20.20.1 is down or identify the cause of Application XYZ running slow.
- Verify multicast configurations by checking multicasting 239.0.0.1 or assessing the health of site BCD.
- Ensure compliance by asking, “Is R10 NIST-compliant?” or review recent changes with, “Does R10 have any config changes last week?”
- Validate configurations by checking configuration rules for R10 or assess security risks with, “Does any device in the map have a CVE vulnerability?”
NetBrain Automation Insight
Find and access all automation related to a mapped area of your network in a single place, including golden intent, golden config, ADT intent, intent from the observability dashboard, published intent, CLI, and config.
AI Document
Create a report and refine it with AI using natural language input for tailored output.
Native Support for Kubernetes Environments (Beta)
With Release 12.1, NetBrain brings native support for Kubernetes environments into the core of its Next-Gen automation platform. This enhancement extends our Digital Twin, Golden Engineering Studio, and Intent-based Automation to container-based infrastructure—enabling NetOps, SecOps, and platform engineering teams to automate operations and accelerate root cause analysis across hybrid environments.
Strengthen Your Network’s Resilience
NetBrain Next-Gen isn’t just about fixing problems—it’s about building a network that’s resilient to them. With AI-powered insights and observability dashboards, you can monitor your network’s health in real time, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. By continuously assessing and optimizing your network, you can ensure it’s always performing at its best, even as your business evolves.
Accelerate Your Outcomes with the Latest NetOps Innovation
NetBrain Next-Gen is your trusted partner in outage prevention. By automating post-mortem and continuous network assessments, providing real-time visibility, and enabling proactive risk mitigation, NetBrain helps you:
- Prevent outages before they impact your business.
- Reduce downtime with faster issue resolution.
- Build trust in your organization through reliable network performance.
- Save time and resources by automating manual processes.
Make outage prevention smarter, not harder. Don’t wait for the next outage to act. With NetBrain Next-Gen, you can proactively identify and address risks, ensuring your network remains stable and secure.