The Power of Network Automation
Today, up to 80% of network problems are caused by change—mistakes made when manually changing devices, setting poor configurations that cause problems later and using inconsistent standards. New initiatives, such as virtualization, cloud computing and IPv6, are only adding to the challenge. While new virtual servers can be spun up and down in a matter of minutes, the network infrastructure supporting these dynamic environments typically requires days and weeks to change—properly.
Trinzic NetMRI is the world’s leading multi-vendor network automation solution for configuration, optimization and compliance enforcement. With hundreds of built-in rules and industry best practices, it automates network change, intelligently manages device configurations and reduces the risk of human error. Trinzic NetMRI proactively enforces configuration compliance and detects standardization issues so you can audit, analyze standardize and automate your network faster and more efficiently—all while supporting your key IT initiatives that require more a dynamic network infrastructure than ever before.
- Detect and automate network changes, and see who changed what, where, when and assess the impact of changes on the health and stability of the network
- Reduce guesswork with complete discovery, dynamic inventory and a view of all network devices, network constructs, their dependencies and topology
- Identify suboptimal configurations with intelligent analysis of device configurations before problems arise
- Ensure consistency and minimize time to prove compliance with built-in regulatory standards and customizable compliance reports
- Improve capacity management and rogue device detection with a switch port management option
- Automates analysis of network device vulnerabilities for Cisco devices, including PSIRTs, field notices, end of life milestones, and field notices.
Complete Network Change and Impact Analysis
Trinzic NetMRI detects and tracks all network changes—including who changed what, where and when, and the impact of changes—and saves every historical device configuration with easy side-by-side comparisons. This automated network performance monitoring also includes embedded jobs, scripts and customizable templates to help you move away from manual CLI-based changes.
Trinzic NetMRI leverages hundreds of standards and industry best practices to understand and correlate the impact of change on both network health and compliance. Instead of assuming a change works, Trinzic NetMRI network performance monitoring detects the change and completes an automated analysis to identify variances from correct configuration and vulnerabilities to the stability of the network. Auto-generated issues, graphical summaries and the unique Network Scorecard highlight whether changes have a positive or negative impact on the network.
Total View of the Network
Instead of manual spreadsheets and generic ping sweeps, Trinzic NetMRI offers complete network discovery and dynamic inventory for multi-vendor, Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks elements. User-friendly analysis and graphical views provide rich information on network elements, including devices, VLANs, routes, routing tables, HSRP peers, subnets, OS and models.
Trinzic NetMRI automatically collects information in real time and continuously keeps it up to date, making it always available for key tasks such as inventory, troubleshooting and maintenance reconciliation. Find planned and rogue devices automatically, report on variances as they happen, and highlight the network connections across the entire infrastructure. Also, automatically sync the rich network data with Infoblox’s IP address management solution.
Proactive Network Configuration Management
Trinzic NetMRI identifies and exposes lurking and intermittent problems often caused by poor configurations, which are typically very difficult and sometimes impossible to troubleshoot. Using built-in expertise and analytic techniques to identify network issues and poor configurations, Trinzic NetMRI detects symptoms before they evolve into faults.
Focusing on a holistic network view and analysis instead of just individual devices, Trinzic NetMRI helps you discover hidden problems and remediate them faster than any manual processes can. By uncovering potential issues early, Trinzic NetMRI empowers you to take preventive action proactively well before the end user experiences poor performance or application degradation.
Automated Network Compliance and Standardization
Trinzic NetMRI solves the problem of network compliance and standardization by automating the process with built-in rules and templates for common standards, including PCI, NSA, SANS, DISA and others, and also allowing you to create your own custom policies and reports. Trinzic NetMRI passes each rule across every single network device 24/7, and highlights all violations immediately as detected.
Employing customizable attributes/policies and continuous proactive monitoring, Trinzic NetMRI alerts you to any rule violation, shows you who caused the problem and offers remediation options in real time. Instead of spending weeks chaotically compiling the information for audits, you are able to generate reports for both internal standards and external mandates (such as SOX, HIPAA, FERC and NERC) automatically with a single click.
Switch Port Management Visibility
Often organizations add unnecessary switch port capacity to be safe, which both increases security risks because of limited visibility and also compounds expenses. By adding Trinzic Switch Port Manager to Trinzic NetMRI, you can automatically track connected end devices and monitor what was connected, by whom, when and where.
Trinzic Switch Port Manager lets you easily identify and locate rogue devices or use device forensics for troubleshooting. Since Trinzic Switch Port Manager monitors all end devices, determining used, free and available ports is easy and simple and allows IT teams to plan capacity throughout the organization with more assurance and insight.
Features
- Scalable architecture for large, complex networks with Trinzic NetMRI Operations Center
- Automatic network discovery for multi-vendor network devices with multi-perspective topology views
- Built-in expert analysis of configuration and health assessments
- Standard and custom rule and reporting for faster compliance analysis
- Change monitoring and tracking for who changed what, where, when and the impact of the change on the health of the network
- Collection and archiving of current and historical of network devices’ configuration files with easy side-by-side comparison
- Automatic network problem identification with auto-remediation options
- Built-in packaged scripts, such as OS upgrades, password changes and many others
- Job scheduling, approval and peer-review enforcement
- Executive-level dashboards that show correlation of change with network health and compliance, overall network score and other high-level views
- In-bound and out-bound API support for Infoblox IPAM sync, enhancing the Infoblox IPAM database with more and relevant network information
Additional Information
Learn more about Trinzic NetMRI through the following resources:
Virtual Appliance Trial Download - Includes DNS, DHCP, and IPAM
Free Trinzic NetMRI Trial - Download now and automate network change and configuration!
IPAM Freeware - Download today and replace your spreadsheet!
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