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NetBrain Technologies

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What is NetBrain Technologies?

NetBrain, founded in 2004, provides a no-code automation platform for hybrid network observability, allowing organizations to enhance their operational efficiency through automated workflows. The platform applies automation across three key workflows: troubleshooting, change management, and assessment.

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how NetBrain defines what can be assessed in a network, how often it can be assessed, and how it scales through no-code automation.
what a Golden Path through a hybrid cloud looks like
how using no-code network automation can cover all aspects of a network.

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Improving network environment with amazing tool

Incentivized
Carlos Tavares
Sr. Network Operation Engineer in Engineering at GE (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The tool is used to generate dynamic diagrams, generate runbooks that help us with troubleshooting, comparisons between pre and post changes, code upgrades, etc.…In this tool we can see all network devise together that helps a lot, special in BIG organization that network is managed by different teams. In terms of usability this is a friendly tool.

Pros

  • Network discovery
  • Config comparation
  • Runbooks

Cons

  • Improve compare results when uses a lot of devices at the same map

Return on Investment

  • All network engineer (Arch, Built and Ops) and leaders has a single tool that can be used for different purposes.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne)

One stop automation shop

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NetBrain is a automation tool which we use to automate our task. We are also using NetBrain for our network devices monitoring, using Qapps we monitor our network performance and for any protocol failure. We have integrated NetBrain with Slack and if anything goes down in the network , NetBrain notifies us via email and Slack notifications.

Pros

  • Network Automation
  • You can create Quick apps based on your requirement and run it
  • Set Golden path rule for your network path

Cons

  • After every release one or the other things stop working
  • API call to create INC's in SNOW,Remedy

Return on Investment

  • it definitely saves a lot of time so I would say it has good ROI

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Other Software Used

ThousandEyes, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

Unique Product for Enhanced Network Issues Troubleshooting Capability

Incentivized
Nikhil Kumar SharmaView profile
Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Network Issues Troubleshooting
  • Visualizing the root cause using color coding
  • out of the box runbooks available

Cons

  • Deep Network Fault and Performance Monitoring
  • Historical data caching and reporting
  • Out of the box integrations with standard tools

Most Important Features

  • Visualization of the problematic network component in a simple GUI
  • Devices topology view
  • Runbook report availability
  • Auditing Network configuration in live environment

Return on Investment

  • Enhanced Network troubleshooting for our Network tea
  • Out of the box pre-build runbook reports with all required details
  • Additional cost for troubleshooting feature

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager) and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper

Automating your network documenatation

Incentivized
Christoph NeulingerView profile
Senior Network Specialist in Information Technology at Generali Shared Services S.c.a.r.l. (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • It automatically updates your network documentation.
  • You can search for devices even if they are no longer operational (by a lot of attributes).
  • It can simplify your troubleshooting by showing you the L2/L3 path a packet would take.
  • It can automate and document the steps of troubleshooting tasks to get more information from one level of support to the next.
  • The support team of NetBrain is very fast and very helpful.
  • Heaps of information in the maps.

Cons

  • Not all devices are integrated with the same quality.
  • Not all steps are self-explaining.
  • The updates were difficult (but thanks to the help of support no real problem).

Return on Investment

  • Network automation is up to date.
  • Quicker failure discovery and resolving due to the path discovery.
  • Less time spent on documentation.
  • Much more details in the documentation.

Other Software Used

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, UltraEdit

Don't use your brain, use NetBrain's.

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Identify throughput issues, discards, dropped packets, etc.
  • 24/7 real-time monitoring
  • Detailed, easy to read logs
  • Proactive issue resolving
  • Ease of setup

Cons

  • Like to be able to send logs to SIEM
  • Dual links to SDWAN show as 1 circuit, would like to see both

Most Important Features

  • Monitoring
  • Install (ease of)
  • Finding problems before they become a huge issue

Return on Investment

  • Time it takes for Service Desk to identify issues has been cut into 1/2
  • Able to present maps to management for circuit throughput issues and why we need a larger circuit
  • The logs are clear and easy to understand

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), ThousandEyes and Intermapper

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM), SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper

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