The system discovers network and keeps benchmarking network configuration through SNMP, CLI, and API.
To integration the system and a third party CMDB system, there are 2 typical use cases:
Network inventory synchronization may help to maintain identical inventory lists between NetBrain and a third party CMDB in your IT ecosystem.
- NetBrain as the Single Source of Truth
The system provides REST APIs for a third party system to query its device list.
- Third Party CMDB as the Single Source of Truth
According to the system's auto-discovery mechanism and specific data model, the system doesn’t allow a third party system to directly add a network device into the system. Instead, the third party system can add the IP of a network device into the system discovery task and let the system to discover it.
Network configuration synchronization may help to maintain identical network configuration for the following items.
- Device properties
- Device configuration / data tables / any benchmarked device CLI outputs
- Interface properties
- Module properties
- Network topology links