Buying Guide for Network Automation Choose NetBrain: Network automation the way it was meant to be NetBrain Next-Gen is the answer to all these challenges. It addresses more than 95% of an enterprises service task needs and can even be applied proactively to prevent potential problems before they affect production needs. Examples of Intents for Automation: Design-Level Enforcement Event and Ticket Remediation Design / Feature / Technology / Security Network • Must-have or forbidden routes • Access errors • QoS, ACL, or multicast rules • Configuration errors and drift • HA/failover/redundancy rules • BGP or OSPF errors Incident & Feature Agnostic Device NetBrain Next-Gen • Sufficient CPU, Memory, Power • Host or Service Unreachable addresses more than • Link utilization, Latency, Interface status • Printer/Database Device unavailable • Device and service reachability • Permission restrictions % Key Applications and Paths Application 95 • Voice, Internet, VPN path availability and • Data unavailable performance • Voice Choppy • DCI Paths performance and quality • Slow App Response Times • Validating key application path of an enterprises availability and quality service task needs and can even be applied proactively to prevent These automation units address the most common scenarios seen in most enterprises for potential problems event-driven responses, (such as those reported via a network helpdesk service ticket), as before they affect well as for proactive design-level compliance, security, and application performance production needs support verifications. What the Experts Say According to Enterprise Management Associates, IT organizations should adjust their operational plan to be more strategic and forward-looking. They should leverage the combined knowledge and expertise of their own subject matter experts by adopting tools that take developers and coders out of the process and allow these experts to capture the application-centric intents of the business through no-code automation. This will allow users of network automation to clearly understand how to maintain the network in the context of critical business services. In other words, organizations should 1 consider no-code, intent-aware network automation solutions. NetBrain is Different The days of maintaining individual siloed tools for individual tasks are over. Network operations teams must look for ways to combine automation tasks which span data centers, LANs, WANs, and the cloud. They should adopt automation platforms with visibility into the intent and the state of the network to minimize manual data gathering.