Golden Assessment

Turn your network’s best-practice configurations into continuous, automated compliance checks. Golden Assessment transforms how network teams enforce configuration standards. 

• Continuous compliance and drift prevention: Real-time monitoring against your network’s design standards. 
• Prevent repeat outages and Day 2 drift: Schedule automated drift prevention so past outages do not recur. 
• Accelerate troubleshooting: Reduce MTTR dramatically with workflows tailored to your network’s exact design goals. 

Reference clusters 

For each assessment feature, the system groups like devices using keywords and device criteria, then applies a purpose-built cluster of Network Intents to validate every device in the group. 

• Hundreds of clusters. 
• Hundreds of intents per cluster. 
• Tens of thousands of intents protecting the network. 

Quick Assessment

Reusable, intelligent device templates. Build once, apply across your entire environment. Quick Assessment turns one task into bulk validation in minutes. 

Assessment Targets 

• Map Devices: use every device on the current map. 
• Network Change Devices: auto-select devices affected by a recent change. 
• Dynamic Scope: start with base devices and automatically include their neighbors. 
• Pre-Built Targets: use a target you or your team already created. 

Governance & Audit Library (GAL)

Scale, modernization, and ACI-native assessment for the Governance & Audit Library. GAL 26.06 delivers four capability areas: Cisco ACI API coverage, Cisco WLC onboarding, Rule Discovery auto-remediation, and Capacity Management. 

Cisco ACI API Library 

• ~350 Cisco ACI API URL wrappers built and validated with Deep Diagnosis. 
• New Deep Diagnosis skill live in production for ACI API-based devices. 
• Baseline Comparison coming next — gives AI full ACI change context for drift detection. 

Cisco WLC Onboarding 

• Beta package delivered for hands-on customer validation. 
• Capacity Module in QA. 

Rule Discovery: Tier-1 & Tier-2 Auto-Remediation 

• Tier-1 and Tier-2 auto-remediation intents in active build across multiple vendors. 
• Concurrent fixes across the broader Rule Discovery library. 

Capacity Management 

• New assessment category targeting utilization thresholds and headroom risk across the fleet. 

Observability Dashboards

Dashboards that surface the context behind the data, not just the metrics. Leadership and operations teams share the same view — from company-wide posture down to individual site and device detail — without two separate dashboards built for two different audiences. 

• Real-time visibility into network health across hybrid and multi-cloud. 
• Policy compliance posture at a glance with drill-down into failing devices. 
• Operational trends over time: drift, change volume, assessment results. 
• Geo-aware: hierarchical dashboards from company-wide down to regional and site-specific. 
• Shareable: leadership, NOC, and the service desk can subscribe to role-appropriate views. 

Post-Mortem Assessment

Find out what really caused the outage, and whether it’s hiding elsewhere. When an incident hits, the priority is restoring service. But restoring service is not the same as understanding what went wrong. Without root cause analysis, the same misconfiguration that caused today’s outage will eventually cause another one. 

What Post-Mortem Assessment does 

• Root cause analysis: NetBrain captures the network state at the moment of failure. It correlates configuration changes, routing updates, and interface data to identify exactly what triggered the outage. 
• Network-wide risk scan: Once the root cause is known, NetBrain scans the rest of the infrastructure for devices with the same configuration or condition. 
• Incident timeline: Reconstructs the sequence of events showing how the failure propagated. What changed, when it changed, and which devices were affected at each stage.