SOLUTION BRIEF Automate Network Change Management with Intent Even if changes to devices are successful, the unintended consequences of that change on the network and its apps could still result in an outage or service degradation. Feature Highlights Change management automation Change Management should not be a CLI command or NetBrain allows you to avoid the consequences (including a script of multiple commands. It should be a highly costly outages) that result in downtime by verifying defendable process that executes changes with changes with network design intents to preserve and confidence, can scale over an enterprise infrastructure assure application traffic flows. Network engineers can and is defendable over the long term. quickly identify any change’s impact on an infrastructure by enabling the capturing of before and after snapshots NetBrain’s Change Management enables you to to benchmark and analyze comparisons of performance. automate the entire change management process And changes must be supportable, so with just a couple including visualization of the live network with maps, of clicks, NetBrain allows you to document the work that documenting and executing changes, approvals, was performed and share additional operational notes verification of the change and against the design intent, with other operators and engineers. and resulting performance. By leveraging intent-based automation, NetBrain allows you to create and execute Rollback unintended network changes changes across your entire network while preserving the network’s design intentions. Engineers can formulate and Enforce design intentions for network device changes apply configuration changes by defining the Intents they and the resulting connectivity changes. want to achieve, including the desired benchmarks expected after making the change. And whether the change is executed correctly or incorrectly, it’s the application performance that matters, In addition, NetBrain integrates with third-party ticketing so NetBrain allows you to have your rollback process systems (e.g., ServiceNow) to trigger approvals for network locked and loaded, ready to execute — all at once, changes, linking the original service tickets directly to device by device or line by line - to quickly restore any NetBrain and updating the ticket as its status changes. previous configuration. Intent-based automatic change management verification Even with the best intentions, changes can have a ripple effect across the hybrid network which may be hard to predict unless carefully architected in the context of the entire infrastructure and precisely executed. Even the smallest of errant changes on a single component can wreak havoc on an enterprise and its applications.