Network pains that keep you up at night (and how to stop them with IP Fabric)

How Does It Work?

IP Fabric’s automated cloud and network assurance delivers actionable information to dramatically improve the security and stability of digital services, speed transformation, and cut IT costs. Here's how IP Fabric works:

• Securely discover end-to-end information about state, topology, configurations, policies, interconnections, etc., build an accurate data modelStandardize data from all different vendors into a simplified model ready for analysis and action
• Apply analytics specifically designed for your environment and compliance requirements to assure performance, stability, and manage costs
• Activate the information among people in the business and activate workflows in the IT management ecosystem

Discover Everything

IP Fabric’s CLI-based infrastructure SSH discovery mechanism performs a lightweight and secure interaction based on a seed device and read-only credentials. It looks for known neighbors, collects detailed network state information from every discovered device, and computes cross-technology dependencies to create a complete model of your cloud and network infrastructure.  

IP Fabric discovers all supported IP-based active network devices, such as switches, routers, firewalls, load-balancers, WAN concentrators, wireless controllers, and wireless access-points.

IP Fabric also uses APIs to communicate with vendor controllers or cloud vendors.

Simplify & Standardize All Vendor & Technology Information for Business Use

IP Fabric is a powerful tool for multi-vendor, large-scale networks. A cornerstone of network assurance is vendor neutrality; we represent your diverse and complex network in a familiar and clear standardized form, so you can compare “like with like” and use a clean data set as the foundation of your projects.
 
Users don’t have to be a subject-matter expert in every technology or vendor deployed in your network to accurately understand the behavior of the environment, and what risk and opportunities they can act on.
 
The network vendor list is ever-expanding with new items added each release. 
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Reveal Cloud & Network Risks& Opportunities to Improve Performance, Security, or Costs

Once modeled, IP Fabric reveals the risks and opportunities in your network. It will
  
 

• highlight points of failure that should be resolved immediately

• show vulnerabilities that you can proactively assess and resolve

• demonstrate opportunities for optimization and improvement
• prove best practices are in place as expected


Using IP Fabric’s built-in or custom intent checks, you can build a set of rules for your specific network to be measured against every time you run discovery. These findings are visualized as a green-red-amber-blue system in dashboards, technology tables, and network topology maps.
 

Turn Information Into Action for the Whole Enterprise

Based on end-to-end, vendor-inclusive discovery, contextualization for the business, and our specialized analytics, you can:

• Enrich network tooling (monitoring, security policy management, IT service management) with contextual network data automatically
• Balance stability, performance, and security with daily validation of success
• Act on opportunities to pursue cost-effective cloud and network strategies
• Use a closed-loop automation practice to trigger, apply, validate, and document remediation efforts
• Create self-service processes for network activities and non-expert users 
• Confidently pursue transformation projects without the risk of unknowns.

Fill Critical Gaps in Your Tooling  Ecosystem

All the structured data in IP Fabric is available via REST API, for you to use as you desire. Our clients have used the structured data throughout the enterprise in many ways such as:

• Populate ServiceNow Tickets with end-to-end path lookup visualizations;
• Automatically update a NetBox instance to reflect observed reality and ensure accuracy;
• Add a ChatBot on top of IP Fabric to allow other teams to query the data, or do complete URL path lookups independently;
• Provide excerpts to other teams for their development or automation projects; 
• Add key context into Grafana dashboards.

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