What’s New in NetBrain 10

1 | Marketing Ops – Lead Lifecycle

What’s New in NetBrain 10.0Scale Automation to Any Network, Any Engineer, and Any Problem

2 | Network Automation: The Next Frontier of Network Management

What’s New in NetBrain 10.0

9. Feature Intent Template

8. Visual Parser

6. SmartCLI

5. NetBrain Incident

7. Incident Portal

1. Visual Cloud Management

4. Decision Tree

2. Network Intent

3. Adaptive Monitoring

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Scale to Any Network…

Scale to Any Person…

Scale to Any Problem...

D. No-code/ Low-code Automation

C. Collaborative Incident Management

A. Multi-cloud Support

B. Intent Based Automation

A. Multi-Cloud Support

Visual Cloud Management


Collaboration with newly

created Cloud Team

Application and services span

entire hybrid network

Cloud Introduces New Network Operational Challenges

Cloud Specific data creating

additional data silos

Network operations teams are forced to

operate differently, depending on

whether the networks they are managing

are in the cloud or on-premises.

----- Gartner1

“

Cloud is a black box


NetBrain Visual Cloud Management for AWS and Azure

▪ Auto-discover and document hybrid cloud infrastructure

▪ End-to-end visibility via dynamic map

▪ Map application dependency across physical, SDN, and

public cloud network

▪ Map functions as consolidated resource view via

integration with other cloud tools

▪ Troubleshoot via runbook automation to reduce MTTI &

MTTR


Auto Discovery & Inventory

NetBrain auto-discovers cloud infrastructure to provide:

▪ Inventory, tracking, and measurement of every

resource object or infrastructure node

▪ Topological visibility for every public cloud resource

▪ End-to-end visibility for hybrid networks, from campus

to private cloud to multi-cloud

▪ Real-time path analysis, metrics, and data views for

your cloud and hybrid infrastructures

▪ Runbook Automation for hybrid cloud troubleshooting


End-to-End Pathing Across the Entire Network

▪ Discover and map the end-to-end application path from on-prem network to the public cloud or vice versa.

▪ Quickly visualize path-effecting data such as security group or Network ACLs to block or allow traffic

Multi-Cloud from Azure to AWS

LAN to AWS


Consolidated Resource View for 3rd Party Cloud Management Tools

▪ Integrate with cloud-native monitoring tools and 3rd party cloud monitoring/logging/billing management tools

▪ Automatically hyperlink helpful 3rd-party resources to use when troubleshooting cases

B. Intent Based Automation

Network Intent | Adaptive Monitoring | Decision Tree


Your Apps Ride on Network IntentsN

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Users | Customers | Partners User Layer

App Layer Application A | Application B | Application C | Application D | …

Reachability | Throughput | Performance | Latency | Resiliency |

Security Policy | ManagementNetwork Services

MP-BGP | QoS | Firewall ACL | Multicast | VRRP | VPN | Load Balancing | …

Hardware Layer

Network Features

Your network is not just made of devices but is made of thousands of intents. Automating through intent allows NetBrain usersto achieve more complex automations at scale.


10,000s of Intents on 1,000s of Devices

1,000 Devices10,000 Intents

‘DNA’ of the network device(QoS, Failover, Multicast, etc.)

? How do we validate the most important network intents?

SJC-WAN02 CPU 5-min average should be below 40%

SJC-WAN02 only permits AAA authenticated users to access

CLI

SJC-WAN02 primary global VRF BGP Internet next-hop is

AT&T

BOGON security filter must exist inbound for all Internet

interfaces

Outbound QoS policy drops VOIP traffic last

VLAN100 interface should be HSRP state standby

MTU for all Core-facing interfaces should be 9000

bytes

All WAN interface output error counts should be zero

Guaranteed security and performance outcomes


Continual Outcome Assurance through Network Intent Automation

Device

Configuration VerificationDefine and capture key network intents

Automate Intent Diagnosis and

Verification


Proactively Capture Problems Before They Impact Your Business

BGP Config

Changed

ACL Changed

QoS Policy Changed

Adaptive Monitor

BGP ACL

Symmetry Check

BGP Neighbor Count

BGP Status Check

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Network Intent

!

New adaptive monitoring system that scales to validate intents from your entire network.

Adaptive monitoring system captures network problems such as transient issues (e.g. link utilization spikes and

routing flapping) and other issues such as config change and failover.


Decision Tree To Automate Static Playbooks

▪ Decision tree leverages Adaptive Monitoring to trigger NetBrain automation

▪ Replaces manual playbooks with proactive automation

▪ Enables multi-threaded diagnostic automations

▪ No-code development enables the entire team to build automated diagnostic processes

YES

Check Show Version

In uptime < 15 mins?

Show IP BGP

Is BGP up/down time < 15 mins?

NO

NO

Is last reload reason PowerOn or Reload Command?

YES

NO

Show flash

Is there a crash file with current date?

YES or NO YES

C. Collaborative Incident Management

NetBrain Incident | SmartCLI | Incident Portal


Incident trackers lack topology

data and detailed diagnostics

Collaboration inefficiencies slow

problem resolution

Incident Based Collaboration

Difficulty in documenting

findings for future use

Siloed network operations groups…are

the norm, limiting cross-functional

alignment.

----- Gartner Research

“Barriers persist in bringing in

expertise from other teams


Three Main UIs for Incident-based Collaboration

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1NetBrainIncident

2IncidentPortal

3SmartCLI

1. NetBrain Incident – Collaborate over

a Dynamic Map in real-time

2. Incident Portal – Securely share

access to an incident page to

collaborate with non-NetBrain users

3. SmartCLI – Associate isolated CLI

data with an incident to start a

collaboration session


NetBrain Incident Pane

- Creates incident with a unique identifier for each complex ticket or task- Record and centrally track all data and findings for any complex network problem - Includes real-time communication and collaboration functionality for all network engineers


A Link of NetBrain Map

Send

Incident Portal provides access to NetBrain Incident for any Engineer

3

NetOps uses the portal to share incident details/dynamic map with non-NetBrain users/people outside of the team (such as CloudOps or applications teams).

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IT EngineersNetwork Engineers


Integrated SmartCLI syncs and accesses NetBrain data

3

2IncidentPortal

✓ Publish Findings to Incident

✓ Auto-Compare Historic

✓ Auto-Compare Baseline

✓ Intelligent Command-Line

✓ Automated Command Execution

Compare Automate

D. No-code/ Low-code Automation

Visual Parser | Feature Intent Template


NetOps – DevOps

Collaboration is

time-consuming

Network engineers may not

have necessary coding skills

No-code/Low-code Automation Addresses Challenges of Scale

Number of network tasks

needing automation is

huge.

The ultimate benefit of low-code

automation is to democratize network

management.

--------- Gregory Webb

Forbes Technology Council

“Automation for multi-vendor

networks is increasingly

difficult.


Democratize Network Automation.

NetBrain 10.0 provides a powerful automation builder toolkit enabling anyone on the team to build automations for network operations using NetBrain’s no-code/low-code toolset

Automation for Any Engineer

✓ Visual Parser – Sorts through a deluge of network data to extract theright information for rapidly building automations

✓ Feature Intent Template – Provides low-code template-driven automation building blocks to quickly scale new automations across the organization

Device

Config

CLI

NetBrain Visual Parser

Network Infrastructure

Network Intents

Executable Runbooks

Automation for Network Operations

No-code/Low-code Automation in NetBrain

Your Automation Builder Toolkit

Raw Text

Variables

Tables

Data Views


▪ Network operations engineers may not have coding skills▪ Overwhelming number of network tasks need automation ▪ Building automations for multi-vendor networks are difficult

given differences in CLI between vendors

Challenges

✓ Quickly isolate – Low-code visual mechanism to enable engineers to quickly find useful network variables

✓ Empower everyone – Visual toolkit enabling anyone in IT to contribute to building flexible automations

✓ Vendor-neutral automations – Generate flexible, platform-agnostic diagnostic automations

✓ Scalable deployment – Batch-generate automation objects at scale, for the largest IT environments

Key Benefits

No-code/Low-code Automation Meets the Challenges of Scale


Hundreds of Improvements in NetBrain 10.0

▪ Splunk Integration

▪ Auto-test enhancements

o For framework components and platform

resources

▪ Runbook enhancements

o CLI Command tools, annotation, associate

incident with network change

▪ Data View enhancements

o Specify relevant data sources

o Improved UI and raw data support

▪ Enable Qapp to Trigger Event Template

▪ Framework enhancements

o APIs, multi-tenant support, DB enhancements

▪ Platform Certification

o Identify L2/L3 topology gaps proactively

o Resolve common topology discontinuities

▪ Administrative enhancements

o Automation and seat license usage dashboards

o Service monitor enhancements

▪ Security enhancements

o Config file encryption improvements

o Improved user password policy and user action auditing

o Enhanced Python API security

▪ Performance enhancements

o Data view manager tree, Function Portal shared map

tree, runbook compare, ElasticSearch, SmartTelnet/SSH

▪ And much more!


NetBrain 10.0 Scales Automation Across Network Operations

For Any Network For Any Problem For Any Person

End-to-End Automation:

• Scalable automation across Physical

Network, to SDN/SD-WAN, to multi-

cloud

• Native support for AWS & Azure

Intent Based Automation:

• Proactive Automation to catch

problems before they impact

services

• Scalable automation for the most

complex network problems

Collaborative Low-code Platform:

• Enable anyone on the team to deploy

automations using NetBrain’s no-

code/low-code automation builder

toolkit

• Collaboratively troubleshoot any

incident, problem, or change in real-

time

27 | Marketing Ops – Lead Lifecycle

NetBrain Technologies15 Network DriveBurlington, MA 01803

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