IP Fabric

Overview

Automated Network Assurance

Automated Network Assurance

IP Fabric serves as the foundation for network programmability, analytics, and automation by delivering the critical information required to manage your network operations. It is a vendor-neutral network assurance platform that automates the holistic discovery, verification, visualization, and documentation of large-scale enterprise networks, reducing the associated costs and required resources while improving security and efficiency. It supports your engineering and operations teams, underpinning migration and transformation projects and making network planning, testing, and troubleshooting easier.

Highlight single points of failure

Features and Benefits

Secure your network infrastructure

With IP Fabric, you can be sure that you know your network inventory, giving you a baseline from which to validate that the hardware, software, and configuration aren’t leaving any vulnerabilities for an attacker to exploit. Track the lifecycle of your network infrastructure to ensure that it doesn’t unexpectedly reach end of life status; ensure that your support is still valid, and you are able to receive software updates if exploits are published. Watch deployed software versions to maintain and standardize on certified safe releases and ensure that you understand the role a device plays in the network should it become compromised. Make sure the network infrastructure has been appropriately hardened against attack through standardization of management configuration – normalize authentication, access methods, monitoring setup, event logging, and more.

Reduce manual work

Manual methods of documenting and managing increasingly complex networks are time-consuming and liable to human error. Enterprises should instead look towards an approach that automates and visualizes all network domain knowledge in order to continuously discover, verify and document their large-scale enterprise networks within minutes. Automated verifications combined with the comparative Network History mean you have a fast access to insightful data and compliance reporting. Having this solid baseline frees up your team to focus on the strategy and intent behind your network – no need for time-consuming and expensive audit and remediation activities when your reporting is completed daily!

Augment your toolset with powerful integrations

Complex networks bring an inevitable sprawl of operational tooling – monitoring, configuration and policy management, inventory, ticketing, automation, and more. Whether you have vendor-specific tools that only cover part of your network estate, or vendor-agnostic tools with limited capability, your ecosystem will leave plenty of questions unanswered. IP Fabric fills the gaps in your tooling. Can’t be certain you’re monitoring your whole network? Want to be sure the security policy you’re pushing out will actually be enforced? Have to process a support renewal and need to validate that your network inventory is complete and accurate? The data in IP Fabric has a multitude of uses for teams operating inside and outside of the network technology space. Providing access to it by sharing it with other systems using REST API integration, or by incorporating it into ChatOps, for example, enhances collaboration across your operational teams.

Enhance your automation workflows

An IP Fabric snapshot contains all the inventory, configuration, topology and state data from your network of networks, across all vendors and domains. Access this data using simple REST API calls – no need to retrieve it yourself, no need to parse it and no need to model it. Once you have access to that data, it can be used in automation workflows. You can, for example: Determine devices that need to be automatically configured, based on a specific technology in use, or their non-compliance; Validate the success or otherwise of executed changes by carrying out intent checks on newly-created snapshots after the change has been completed; Create detailed complex reporting combining data from multiple sources IP Fabric can also be used as a trigger to start automation processes in other systems using its webhook capability – ensuring that the ecosystem is synchronized each time an ad hoc change is made, and on a regularly scheduled basis.

Reduce mean time to resolution with proactive troubleshooting

IP Fabric automatically discovers and centrally highlights single points of failure, policy, or functional inconsistencies that can cause costly errors or outages. Less time spent on troubleshooting thanks to deep visibility is an easy win with a significant impact. Take control of your network infrastructure and cut down mean time to resolution to a fraction of what you would spend manually detecting and investigating issues.