Automating Network Golden Configuration Management

Golden Engineering Studio

Network configuration management is crucial to the security and reliability of multi-platform and multi-vendor hybrid networks. With the Golden Engineering Studio, NetBrain ensures security and software engineers have the tools to streamline network golden configuration and change management processes. Demystify your network with efficient change management procedures.

Auto-Discover Your Network’s Golden Designs

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Auto-Generate Golden Assets

Schedule Continuous Assessments

Apply Automation to Operations Workflows

Golden Engineering Studio

Maintain consistent configurations across your network to eliminate security risks, compliance gaps, and costly outages. NetBrain’s Golden Engineering Studio (GES) enables you to:

Automatically Discover your Golden Config through intelligent reverse engineering
Generate Thousands of No-Code Automations to enforce design intent
Proactively Prevent Drift before it causes vulnerabilities or downtime

Generate Golden Assets

Generates Golden Configs and Golden Intents by packaging rules, reference clusters, and fixes into automation to run Golden Assessments continuously.

Golden Configs: Your Network’s Single Source of Truth

NetBrain lets you Reverse Engineer the design standards of your network’s devices. Identify the golden configurations that serve as authoritative design benchmarks to measure the live network against to instantly identify and remediate deviations before they cause outages or vulnerabilities.

Golden Intents: The Intended State of Your Network’s Devices

Analyze the relevance of the rules of your network states with their applicable network devices.

Reverse Engineer Your Network’s Devices and Intents

Your network’s DNA is defined by its features, not as 1,000 devices, but as 10,000 intents. QoS, multicast, HSRP, failover—today, these are configured device by device.

NetBrain automatically reverse-engineers your network to discover device features and configuration rules. Its rule discovery engine identifies unique network rules and pinpoints which devices leverage them, allowing you to quickly detect issues caused by configuration drift on Day 1.

Build Automated Assessments at Scale Without Scripting

Golden Assessment

NetBrain effortlessly converts complex configurations into actionable intents, eliminating manual management of thousands of design rules. Through automated golden assessments, thousands of intents protect your critical infrastructure and seamlessly maintain peak performance.

Continuous Compliance & Drift Prevention

Proactively ensure network integrity with real-time monitoring against intent-based standards. Schedule continuous assessments to detect misconfigurations, eliminate human error, and enforce network state, keeping your network design perfectly aligned with policy.

Prevent Repeat Outages and Day 2 Drift

Prevent past outages from recurring by scheduling automated configuration drift prevention.

Accelerate Troubleshooting

Reduce MTTR dramatically with workflows tailored to your exact network intent. NetBrain’s precise automation accelerates troubleshooting, resolves issues proactively, and frees teams to focus on strategic initiatives—all while minimizing operational overhead.

Golden Assessment Library

A downloadable pre-built assessment library containing ready-to-use assessments, including assigned reference clusters that group information by keywords and device criteria (such as type, model, version, site, GEO, keyword, and configuration). This library is built on industry-wide knowledge from Cisco (Business Critical Service), NetBrain, and trusted partners, and is integrated into the centralized Golden Engineering Studio to provide ‘herd immunity.’ These assessments help you learn from past outages and industry best practices, providing actionable insights to improve your network’s reliability and performance.

Reference Clusters

For each assessment feature, the system groups like devices using keywords/device criteria (type, model, version, site, GEO, keyword, config) into clusters and assigns reference devices with golden designs for each cluster.

For example, for BGP devices, users can define a keyword, router bgp $as to find the bgp AS number, $as, from the configurations and use the value of $as as the Eigen-Value to divide the BGP devices into clusters (each cluster has the same $as number).

Select or ask the system to choose a reference device for each cluster. The reference device’s configurations will be used as the golden config to check against all other devices in the cluster.

100s of clusters
100s of intents per cluster
Tens of thousands of intents to protect

Expedited Automation Creation

Convert existing configurations into automated tasks, ensuring consistent and reliable network management.

Enhanced Security

Auto-decode your network’s security configs and automate the identification of any security anomalies.

Protected Monitoring

Execute Golden Intents to monitor decoded golden templates, ensuring critical assets remain unchanged.

Informed Decision-Making

Gain rich insights into network design and configuration to ensure optimal performance. Empower your stakeholders to make educated business decisions with vital information from constant data gathering, analysis, and interpretation.

Seamless Mergers and Acquisitions

Ensure the newly acquired network follows your network’s golden rules and policies. Seamlessly integrate new devices and networks into your system without impacting your existing architecture.

Apply Automation to Network Operations Workflows

Automate your network operations workflows to achieve business goals faster and more efficiently. Equip your experts with NetBrain’s network configuration utility to optimize your processes, improve resource allocation, and minimize human errors. Innovate your systems to free up your team from mundane tasks so they can focus on what matters most.