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As large, modern networks increase in complexity, the corresponding maintenance and management of those networks means organizations must shift to network automation on a large scale. Insightful, intent-based software is critical to ensure that automating complex networks is accomplished with security, agility and care.
As your organization starts the journey toward software-driven network management—from solutions for basic network discovery and compliance to error-free policy management—Gluware is there every step of the way to help you:
- Rapidly onboard your configs
- Implement multi-vendor networking
- Leverage your existing CLIs
- Automate existing brownfield devices
- Supplement/supplant home-grown scripts
- Eliminate manual errors
- Minimize downtime
- Implement and enforce policy standards
- Get zero-touch provisioning
- Inventory and discover multi-vendor network devices
- Monitor and detect any configuration drift
- Accelerate network audits
- Upgrade and patch OS at scale
- Define and enforce network-wide configuration policy
- Reduce task time from months to minutes
- Eliminate legacy tools including NCCM costs
3-minute overview
Network Automation Applications
Discovery
Discover and inventory your entire multi-vendor network—no matter what size or complexity with Device Manager
OS Management
Keep your network up to date with code-free accuracy for OS upgrades and downgrades with OS Manager
Change Detection
Detect network changes with hi-res snapshots and do audits on-demand or on-schedule with Config Drift & Audit
Policy Creation
Automatically turn running configurations into automated policy at scale with Config Modeling
API Integration
Programmatic interface to seamlessly integrate Gluware network automation into your own platform with GluAPI
Gluware's Modern Intent-Based Approach
Getting Started With Gluware
See Our Top 10 Network Automation Use Cases
Traditional Approaches to Network Automation
Gluware customers look to our Intelligent Network Automation approach to help them supplement or supplant traditional approaches like these:
Scripting
- Lacks business/lifecycle process
- Not scalable—often for one-time use only
- Varies by vendor and platform: no network-wide changes
- Error-prone “push and pray” deployments, limited logs and validation
Vendor Management Tools
- Disparate tools with different focuses
- Pre-built limited solutions or unintelligent template-based
- Demands high cost for maintenance
- Incomplete automation solution
DIY / Outsource Approach
- Programming skills required
- Ongoing effort to develop, test and update scripts
- High hidden cost to implement GUI, DB, versioning, admin and more
- Limited set of users, not scalable within organization
Traditional Approaches to Network Automation
Gluware customers look to our Intelligent Network Automation approach to help them supplement or supplant traditional approaches like these:
Network Automation Platform Checklist
| Feature | Gluware |
| Support for legacy network configuration and change management (NCCM) |
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| Multi-domain – supporting automating the LAN, WAN, Data Center and more |
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| Multi-user with LDAP integration and rights/roles management |
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| Multi-tenant enabling management of many administratively separate networks |
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| Ability to extend support to new, emerging virtual infrastructures leveraging SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) |
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| A platform that can help the IT organization adhere to corporate and government compliance policies, auditing standards and regulations |
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| Ability to perform secure and reliable changes to the network, across multi-vendor network devices |
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| Identifiable return on investment (ROI) to ensure alignment with the business needs |
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| Ability to implement automation quickly, with limited training and onboarding time |
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| An extensible platform which can grow and change with evolving business needs |
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More than half of the Gartner report respondents had no automated network changes performed today and more than a third had only 1% to 25% of network changes automated. Enterprises are feeling the impact as they move toward global digitization and to the cloud. With networks comprised of legacy devices deployed over decades, many enterprises are hampered with “technical debt”. Public clouds and cloud services provide automation tools to spin up and change services quickly, but the legacy network infrastructure they depend on lacks the needed level of comprehensive management software.
Network automation has been identified as a top priority to improve responsiveness to business needs while reducing network errors, outages and security risks.