ADDRESS YOUR TOP 8 NETWORK CHALLENGES WITH DAY-2 AUTOMATION While there has been a great deal of focus on network automation as it pertains to initial deployment and device configuration, the biggest opportunity is found in automating Day-2 operations - which spans the entire infrastructure lifecycle. The typical large enterprise has thousands of network service tickets each month, ranging from the simple and mundane to the most complicated “headline-making” scenarios. This common device-by-device network management paradigm doesn’t usually consider the application and service delivery business requirements or their end- user experiences. Day-2 network automation enables scale for IT organizations by NetBrain Problem Diagnosis Automation System for leveraging policies and best practices created by your most experienced Managing Operations by Network Intent subject matter experts across the organization that have been incorporated into network management over the lifespan of the NetBrain’s Intent-based network management looks at the network as the infrastructure. Day-2 operations is also the perfect place to proactively delivery mechanism for various application and business service intents. enforce the network rules (or “intents”) that have been designed to NetBrain differs drastically from all other device-based network management continuously exist as part of the enterprise architecture, such as those approaches by focusing on the needs of the applications and services in use. dealing with security zones, quality of service, failover, resiliency, and By realigning network operational plans to directly support business application overall performance. service delivery, business leaders and IT professionals can focus on verifying their network’s ability to meet the needs of the business as their core KPI. What’s needed is a Day-2 vendor-agnostic intent-based automation solution for Network Operations that becomes part of the standard NetBrain PDAS (Problem Diagnosis Automation System) manages hybrid operational workflow. Not another tool, but a new strategy. One that networks as a compilation of network intents which directly supports IT service focuses on IT business service delivery intended outcomes, accelerates delivery needs. Day-2 automated network operations allows you to manage service-related tasks, and proactively verifies the infrastructure’s your hybrid network by capturing, verifying, and enforcing network design capacity to deliver IT services at levels the business requires and intents and eases problem diagnosis to ensure those conditions are maintained. prevent new applications from negatively impacting the performance NetBrain’s Automation Library offers more than 50 intents for modern enterprise of existing applications. network operations.