What Is NCCM (Network Configuration and Change Management)?
Traditional NCCM tools were built for a simpler time. Their focus was on capturing configuration backups, identifying changes, and flagging drift. While these capabilities remain essential, they fall short in today’s complex, hybrid, and multi-vendor networks.
As businesses move faster and rely more on distributed services and cloud platforms, network changes have become more frequent—and riskier. Outage prevention, continuous compliance, and real-time visibility are now mission critical.
The Problem with Legacy NCCM Tools
NetBrain = NCCM + Network Assurance + Real-Time Automation
NetBrain delivers traditional NCCM capabilities and then expands to include AI assisted troubleshooting and real-time automation to meet the needs of modern NetOps. We help enterprises move from Reactive to Proactive change management with:
Triple Defense Change Management
Validate changes before, during, and after they occur. Catch misconfigurations early and auto-remediate when needed.
Golden Engineering Studio
Auto-discover golden configurations, define intent-based policies, and continuously enforce them to prevent drift and design violations.
Live Digital Twin
Visualize your network in real-time with complete topology, traffic flow, and config context. NetBrain’s Digital Twin reflects both current and historical states.
No-Code Automation
Enable every engineer to build reusable automations for change validation, compliance checks, and diagnostics—no programming required.
Where NetBrain Sets a New Standard
What separates NetBrain from the legacy NCCM pack is our ability to make sense of your network in context.
AI Insight, powered by GenAI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), allows engineers to ask natural language questions and receive network-aware answers.
It bridges general LLM intelligence with your specific environment for precise diagnostics.
NetBrain doesn’t just identify the issue—it shows you where, explains why, and recommends what to do next.
Examples:
- “Was this BGP change compliant?”
- “Which other devices are at risk from this misconfiguration?”
- “Has this issue happened before?”