Gluware Control
Easily manage the Gluware® Intelligent Network Automation Suite from a centralized control panel
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Gluware® Control is the centralized control panel for Gluware® Intelligent Network Automation applications. It is an on-premises or cloud-based software platform and orchestration engine that includes Dashboards, Data Explorer and Device Manager to service the Gluware Intent-Based Networking applications. Gluware Control helps network engineering and operations easily manage devices and software across dozens of vendors and operating systems including routers, switches, firewalls, load-balancers, WAN optimizers and wireless LAN controllers. Cloud-based or on-premises, Gluware Control lets you easily load and manage software packages and applications, create organizations for multi-tenant network management, administer users with role-based access, easily import devices and perform inventory.
Features
Cloud-Based or On-Premises
- AWS, MS Azure cloud-based or virtual-machine based on-premises installation
- SaaS subscription based or perpetual license
- Scalable to tens of thousands of network devices with the ability to provision thousands in under an hour
- Redundancy option with database sync
- Customizable data retention policies
- AWS AMI image and deployment template for rapid deployment to customer AWS environments
Platform Differentiation
- Data-model driven with closed-loop automation
- Declarative provisioning to read current state and implement only necessary changes
- Centralized credential management with AES-256-CBC encryption
- Gluware vault for credential management and 3rd party integration supporting CyberArk
Multi-User
- User management with customizable levels of role-based access control (RBAC)
- Support for customer provided LDAP or RADIUS
- Available 2FA security with Gluware sign-in
- SAML and PKCE support
Multi-Tenancy
- Organize network nodes by administrative domains
- Single interface across multiple managed networks or customers
Device Manager
- SSH, Telnet or API protocol support
- Manage routers, switches, firewalls, load-balancers, WAN optimizers and WLAN controllers, API integrations support
- Use the network discovery function which uses ARP, LLDP and CDP or a subnet scan to discover all the network devices for import into Gluware
- Perform dynamic real-time inventory to capture OS version, serial numbers and more with extensibility
- Cisco® API Console integration to provide SmartNet, EoL/EoS and PSIRT information and NIST integration for CVEs
- Custom field support to enable tagging of site-specific or device-specific information used for filtering
Solutions Management
- Integrated software distribution center for Gluware updates
- Dynamically load software packages with version control
Lifecycle Management
- Perform lifecycle management from zero-touch deployment, inventory, config drift, config audit and ongoing policy-based configuration management
- Optional watchdog agent to monitor and notify for unauthorized configuration changes Extensive logging support with real-time and historical views
- Integrated scheduler with notifications
API Support
- Published API and API endpoint to run the software features headless instead of a UI
- Integration with Anisble providing an inventory plugin and a module for config drift and audit
- Basic Auth and OAUTH2 support
Smarter.
- Unify multi-vendor, multi-platform management from disparate tools to a centralized control
- Pre-built vendor packages which read and write native vendor CLI enabling no-code automation
- Data-modeling for programmatic approach enabling software control of existing non-programmatic devices
Faster.
- Installs simply and requires no changes to the network to begin providing instant inventory and configuration drift monitoring
- Leverages native vendor CLI and RegEx to quickly create network audits and configuration policies
- Ingests running configurations and derive policy to quickly enable Intent-Based network configuration
Simpler.
- Requires no programming language or database schema language, unlike other automation approaches
- Delivers consistent functionality and abstracted functionality across multidomain, multi-vendor networks
- Stepwise approach automates current pain points and expands over time without requiring greenfield or redeployments