Increase Network Availability and Staff Efficiency
Too often, the most experienced and busiest network managers are forced to perform mundane, repetitive, manual tasks because the IT team is afraid someone less experienced will break something or disrupt operations. These tasks typically require digging through CLI information or cobbling together Perl scripts—time-consuming and labor-intensive work. When it comes to new and growing dynamic business drivers such as virtualization and cloud computing, the network is often the bottleneck that slows deployment and success. Even the best network managers can’t keep up with the real-time demands of today’s complex business network environments.
Trinzic Network Automation unshackles your valuable network managers and experienced IT staff by automating attributes like change detection/logging, mass changes, job management and user permission controls. The system helps your organization minimize its reliance on manual processes, and reduces the risks and costs of human error. Using the embedded templates and scripts, you can quickly schedule changes ranging in complexity from ordinary password alterations to full OS upgrades, all within a single system.
- Reduce the time, effort and risk of human error involved in making configuration changes to network devices
- Enable the network infrastructure become dynamically supportive of virtualization and cloud computing
- Prove security requirements by documenting network changes and archiving historical configurations
- Show access control with user-based authorization and audit logs
Reducing Time, Risk and Costs of Manual Tasks
When staff make hundreds network changes, such as password changes or VLAN updates, minutes can quickly turn into days. “Fat fingered” mistakes or shoddy copy-and-paste maneuvers can cause huge problems.
Trinzic Network Automation enables IT teams to reduce the reliance on manual processes and unique scripts by embedding automation capabilities within a single system. In executing changes that range from basic to complex, Trinzic Network Automation employs embedded expertise and customizable templates to reduce the reliance on labor-intensive one-off tasks. Existing investments in scripts can also be leveraged and imported into the system easily for ready use.
Enabling Dynamic Requirements of Virtualization and Cloud Computing
While server teams measure the spinning up of new virtual instances in terms of mere minutes, network teams supporting servers manually often take days to handle changes to the network infrastructure.
Trinzic Network Automation eliminates many of the key manual components for network change and configuration management, thereby vastly reducing the time and effort of manual methods and eliminating the unnecessary risks of associated human error. To accommodate the dynamic requirements of cloud computing and virtualization, Trinzic Network Automation includes the ability to change and reconfigure a network much faster than any manual-based approach, and with far less risk of mistakes.
Prove Security Requirements, Document Changes, and Archive Configurations
Proving security requirements for audits can be time-consuming and difficult, involving many staff hours and lots of paperwork investigation when done manually.
Trinzic Network Automation relieves those efforts by documenting all network changes as they occur and then archiving configurations historically. The detailed documentation also includes side-by-side comparisons of configurations to assist with audits and troubleshooting tasks, and a rollback option returns configurations to previous states, which can be especially useful during disaster recovery.
Improved User Control and Delegation of Responsibility
For many IT teams, a very small number of senior staff shoulders most of the responsibility because of concern over the threat of a single point of failure in the network due to a single person’s mistake.
Trinzic Network Automation empowers the IT team to share responsibility by providing a single repository for multiple jobs, a repository that is available to the entire team. User permission controls ensure that individuals have access only to desired devices or locations. Because the job approval process allows multiple authority levels and peer review enforcement when needed, the most experienced staff can be active in the approval process, but still remain focused on business-impacting projects instead of manually overseeing every change.
Features
- Change monitoring and tracking shows who changed what, where and when it occurred
- Collection and archiving of current and all historical configurations with easy-to-view, side-by-side comparison
- Job creation, including dynamic template selection based on device, network attributes and location
- Easily imports existing Perl scripts for access by additional staff
- Automation of complex changes with dynamic templates or script variable population
- User-based permission controls ensure individuals have access to only desired devices or locations
- Job approval process for multiple authority level and peer review enforcement when needed
- Single or multi-device change execution
- Rollback option to return configuration settings to those of a previous template during a disaster recovery
- Update real-time device configuration and attributes with CMDB
Additional Information
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