Name: All Systems Green: A Guide to Proactive Problem Prevention for NetOps
Start: 2022-04-21T15:00:00Z
End: 2022-04-21T15:52:23.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

NetBrain provides the industry’s only complete visual management solution that understands your hybrid network, end-to-end, and allows no-code automation to be applied to any network operations problem at scale. 

When business services are migrated to the public cloud, the need to manage those services continues just as it did when those services were provided in-house. In order to support these cloud-delivered services, network operators require visibility and control of the conditions underlying the cloud infrastructure. 
 
In this webinar, we’ll examine how NetBrain enables you to maintain design compliance and verify service delivery across public clouds by: 
- Capturing expected performance using network intents  
- Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure configuration 
- Verifying and enforcing the application-specific network intents which are in place  
- Automating incident diagnosis to pinpoint issues quickly

Getting the Big Picture, Hybrid Network Visualization for the Cloud

NetBrain's Problem Diagnostic Automation System Release 11 helps your organization prevent network outages over your hybrid infrastructure’s lifespan.  
 
By focusing on Day-2 operations for hybrid-cloud networks, NetBrain identifies errant conditions before impact to production with powerful automated resolutions created from your own subject matter expertise.  
 
- NetBrain 11 dramatically expands the intent-based automation capabilities to include: 
- Network outage prevention through automation at scale 
- Proactive troubleshooting to reduce incident duration 
- Hybrid-cloud network maps and paths integrated with no-code automation  
- Reliable and defendable Change Management to prevent configuration errors and drift  
- Application Assurance of connectivity, performance, and security

Introducing NetBrain Release 11: Preventing Network Outages

Everyone has experienced applications that seem unresponsive or are being reported as ‘slow’. It’s a common problem in large organizations and yet one of the hardest to diagnose. In fact, the most common resolution is to simply wait for the problem to dissipate on its own.  

It all boils down to assuring that the network continues to deliver the services or intents that it was designed for, and these network intents can be continually verified.  

In this webinar, we’ll explore how NetBrain captures the network design intents needed to power any digital business and then uses them to assess where performance issues may exist. NetBrain uses network intents to provide:  
- A detailed understanding of traffic paths, forwards and backwards  
- Monitoring of deviations between current network conditions and baseline intents

Diagnosing Slow Applications in a Flash

Are you ready for your next network audit? Audit and compliance processes are typically executed infrequently, or just in time for an upcoming audit. Why? They are simply too difficult to conduct and do not have a high priority relative to the litany of other network operational tasks. And many times, network compliance projects are not tightly connected to larger security initiatives. Ultimately, your network design compliance is only as good as the next network update and without compliance, your next outage or security incident is just an errant key click away. 

In this webinar, we’ll explore how NetBrain continuously enforces design compliance and security policy adherence with NetBrain by:  

- Explicitly encoding best practice rules with Intent 
- Proactively monitoring rule violation 
- Mitigating security and performance risks

Maintain Network Design Compliance with Confidence

Investing in security products and services is just the beginning of any organization’s journey to secure their business. How do you know if everything is working as designed? How do you know if inadvertent changes have exposed the organization? Securing your network relies on many policies that enforce security borders and zones with firewall rules, access control, dynamic routing schemes, and edge access restrictions. In many cases, security degrades over time through  configuration drift.

Join us to learn how you can make security enforcement a standard part of your network operations.  

NetBrain’s intent-based automation automatically enforces all of your security intents across the entire hybrid network including:
- Protecting BGP routing tables 
- Ensuring firewall HA configurations are mirrored  
- Enforcing firewall and routing policies 
- Ensuring separation of VLANS 
- Limiting the transport of insecure protocols such as TELNET and FTP

Continuously Verifying your Security Readiness Through Network Intent Automation

Did you know that 22% of data center outages, on-premises and in the cloud, are the result of human error? Outages at the data center and other sites have a significant impact on your organization, including downtime, inconvenience, loss of productivity and revenue, plus more! 

So, how can we prevent human errors from causing outages during network changes? 

In this webinar, we’ll show you how NetBrain’s Change Management module uses automation to help you push fixes, do software upgrades, and deploy critical network changes at scale – while instantly verifying success and overall impact of changes. 

In just 4 steps, NetBrain: 
- Makes a pre-change backup of all config files, routing tables, etc. 
- Automatically executes the change 
- Takes a post-change backup 
- Conducts an automatic diff/ compare of pre- and post-change data for verification purposes

Whether you want to schedule a configuration change during your maintenance window or execute it on-demand, NetBrain Change Management uses automation to alleviate stress while safeguarding the network from human error. I wouldn’t do production network changes without NetBrain if I were you!

Tips & Tricks - Reduce Human Error in Network Changes

Network outages are a fact of life, but you don’t have to put up with them any longer. Too often, a blackout is the first time that the network operations team realizes the failover links have been mis-configured or no longer functional. 

In this webinar, we’ll discover how network engineers can eliminate outages due to configuration changes across hybrid, multi-cloud networks with automation based on business and network intents.  

Register now to learn how NetBrain’s Day-2 Network Automation solution empowers network operations teams to manage their networks by verifying their design intents directly support the business applications.  

Learn how you can leverage NetBrain to:
- Capture network intent embedded inside failover design  
- Continuously monitor the design intents  
- Warn of configuration drifts

Keeping Your Business Connected When It Matters

When your security or monitoring solution detects a device infected with malware, finding that device on the network can be like finding a needle in a haystack. And when security attacks occur, time is of the essence. Every second lost gives the malicious code more time to infect more devices and spread throughout the organization. 

You need to stop it in its tracks so you can lock down the network before private data is exfiltrated. NetBrain’s intelligent intent-based automation for Day 2 network operations pinpoints the infected endpoint and the network devices it’s connected to so you can take immediate action. 

In this webinar, we’ll show a simple yet highly effective trick that allows you to quickly locate any device in your environment. Whether you have its IP address, MAC address or DNS name, in just one click you can find the switchport to which it's connected, so you can shut it down. 

No more jumping from switch to switch searching ARP and MAC tables, manually. See how NetBrain’s built-in One-IP Table gives you the ability to find any device on your network in seconds. So, when infected devices are detected, you can contain the spread!

Tips & Tricks – Find Infected Devices in Your Network in Seconds

95% of network issues are repetitive. What if you could prevent those repetitive issues from happening again and again, and avoid impact to the business? If you know the root causes, why not leverage this knowledge intelligently?

Now you can with Preventative Automation. 

NetBrain’s early warning, detection and prevention mechanisms allow you to create continuous running “probes” that seek out configuration drift, route table changes, firewall failover, and more. NetBrain will alert you if it detects any network design intent violations. 

This is NOT your typical monitoring which looks at simple metrics like utilization. This is “adaptive monitoring” where you can customize any preventative check to monitor your network design intents, such as OSPF/ EIGRP best practices or security and compliance checks. 

See how preventative automation enables your team to prevent up to 50% of repetitive network issues!

Tips & Tricks: PREVENT Up To 50% of Network Problems

Did you know that 95% of network tickets are repetitive? This means that either you or your team has solved a similar problem before. Yet, engineers still spend a large amount of time diagnosing, from scratch, an already troubleshooted, diagnosed and resolved network issue. 

This is inefficient and ineffective network operations. 

What if, instead, you could build the intelligence of the troubleshooting steps into NetBrain (no coding involved!) and let NetBrain be your 1st response engineer the next time a similar issue occurs? 

This is what we call “Triggered Automation”, where your ticketing system (ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, etc.) automatically triggers NetBrain, in less than a minute, to provide you a map of the problem area and a diagnosis of the network problem before you ever touch your computer or CLI. 

See how triggered automation enables your team to automate the diagnosis of 95% of repetitive network tickets, saving you time and improving your mean-time-to-repair.

Tips & Tricks with NetBrain - AUTOMATE the Diagnosis of Every Network Ticket

For over 30 years, Dr. Stephen Covey’s international bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has maintained must-read status for presidents, CEOs, educators, parents, students, and others seeking to self-improvement.

Good habits, whether in business or in your personal life, work. The difficulty lies in establishing the right set of habits and then having the discipline to carry them forward consistently. The secret to Covey’s success is that he provides a framework to follow. These are guiding principles where readers could fill in their own specifics and establish the habits that would lead to their own success.
We’ve taken on Covey’s framework and applied it to network operations. Join NetBrain Product Evangelist and experienced Network Engineer Abigail Ramlogan for a moderated discussion on NetBrain’s 7 Habits of Effective Network Engineers with insight into how to reliably adopt these habits with technology as a helping hand.

7 Habits of Effective Network Engineers

Announcing NetBrain’s Fourth-Generation Network-Intent based automation solution, Problem Diagnosis Automation. 

For the first time, NetBrain’s PDA System allows network operations teams to define their management workflows and best practices from the top-down, the way business thinks. You’ll see why intent is everything!

The NetBrian PDA System allows your teams to capture your entire hybrid network as a compilation of network intents, and then use that model for on-going NetOps. With PDA, your Subject Matter Experts capture and share their expertise (without any coding), and when combined with your ITSM systems, can allow up to 95% of all problems to be addressed, and up to 50% of all abnormal conditions to be detected BEFORE they impact the business!

See how NetBrain’s Intent-Based PDA System will let you get back to business.

Manage By Intent: Network Problem Diagnostic Automation for Everyone

Business thinks about service delivery from the top-down, yet traditional Network Operations manages from the bottom-up, device by device.  Let’s show you how to turn that around and manage by intent, the way business thinks!
 
With NetBrain’s “network intent” automation it’s now possible to enforce Network Engineer “design intents” (such as OSPF, BGP, ACLs and more) and get alerts when the intended configuration has changed.
 
So, instead of reacting when an interface or neighbor relationship goes down, you can catch a configuration change which manifests itself as a change of intended results before it affects your production network.
 
See how NetBrain’s Intent-Based automation lets you get back to business.

Network Management by Intent Identifies Problems BEFORE Impacting Your Business

Do you struggle to troubleshoot network issues effectively with your team due to remote work and frequent escalations and hand-offs with multiple stakeholders? 
Sending screenshots and command output by email and chat isn’t effective or efficient either. What if you could troubleshoot even for complex problems faster while collaborating with your entire IT team in real-time, regardless of location? 

You can! 

NetBrain Incident-Based Collaboration was designed with Team Troubleshooting in mind. NetBrain’s interactive console provides live map and chat pane to centralize troubleshooting for any operations’ team members (even those without a NetBrain account). Now, everyone can collaborate and troubleshoot tickets together, in real-time. 

Engineers can share findings, such as interface errors or BGP status right in the portal to keep everyone up to date.

Tips & Tricks with NetBrain – Network Troubleshooting as a Team

You’ve heard it before, the promise of a “Single Pane of Glass” for network visualization. Often promised, yet rarely delivered, Single Pane of Glass management is necessary for optimizing the operations of increasingly complex hybrid networks. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the roles a visual management console should play, how it must scale, and what to expect from a solution that brings all hybrid infrastructure together, in real time. We’ll provide insight into how network operators have met these challenges previously, identifying the strategic opportunities created by the deployment of a production-quality network operations single-pane of glass visualization console. We’ll also look at how deploying a robust single-pane of glass with a comprehensive live digital twin of the entire network can become the enabler for the automation of most common network operations tasks and diagnostics.

The Elusive Single-Pane of Glass for End-to-End Network Management

The concept of “network intent” has generated a lot of discussions in networking and IT circles over the past few years, but what does intent actually mean for network uptime and smoother network operations? 
As it turns out, intent means a whole lot – networks are not just clusters of nodes, but rather consist of thousands of intents, such as application paths, security policies, and so much more. In this webinar, see how this innovation helps users quickly build complex automation for verification, validation, and pre-emptive troubleshooting. See live demos of intent-based automation to illustrate the art of the possible with this groundbreaking technology.

Improving Network Operations with Intent

The typical enterprise network operations team spends far too much time fighting fires. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research has found that 33% of all IT service degradation problems are detected by end users and reported to a help desk BEFORE a network operations team is aware of the problem. In other words, 33% of all trouble is negatively impacting the business before NetOps can take any action.
 
Ideally, NetOps teams should be preventing problems, rather than responding to them. NetOps teams can chart a path toward proactive problem prevention by making a series of simple adjustments to operations.
 
Join EMA Vice President of Research Shamus McGillicuddy and NetBrain Director of Product Marketing Valerie DiMartino for a webinar on proactive network operations. During this event, you’ll learn:
 
- Why so many NetOps continue to be reactive rather than proactive
- How to tune monitoring to ensure network state matches your network intent
- How automation can reduce errors and eliminate tickets

All Systems Green: A Guide to Proactive Problem Prevention for NetOps

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