TOP 10 Use Cases Calculate end-to-end path 2 across a multi-vendor infrastructure Automatically map out any network path from the edge to the cloud — through firewalls and load balancers, across physical and virtual devices — in seconds, not hours. Our intelligent discovery engine allows NetBrain PDAS to dynamically calculate any application’s paths in both directions, hop by hop, across the network with just a source and destination address, taking into account access-lists, NAT, policy-based routing, VRF design, and more. You can even compare any map to historical detail to easily identify changes over time. NetBrain even maps A-B paths traversing the hybrid infrastructure. It’s like a visual traceroute on steroids and the results can be displayed by any user or even used programmatically to populate ITSM service tickets for NetOps teams to refer to during problem resolutions. Accelerate troubleshooting 3 by automating the knowledge of your experts If you’re like most network engineers, only about 20% of your troubleshooting time is spent actually fixing the problem. The other 80% is collecting data and running a battery of preliminary triage and diagnostic test (and maybe tracking down someone who has special subject matter expertise). NetBrain flips that equation around and allows all the preliminary and repetitive diagnostics to be conducted automatically, and then once operators or engineers get involved, they can simply do ‘the hard part’. And even better, the hard part of problem resolution is made much easier by leveraging the collective knowledge of peers and others who have solved the same kinds of problems in the past, which was captured without any code, into easily accessible and sharable “Runbooks”. The PDAS (Problem Diagnostic Automation System) Runbooks let you manage by intents, focusing on the outcomes needed, rather than device-by-device configurations. The runbooks contain the expertise of your best SMEs even when the SMEs themselves are not available. PDAS comes with NetBrain’s Automation Library, which includes SME-inspired resolutions to dozens of every organization’s most common problems, all packaged up into executable Runbooks.