Network Intent

Network Intent is where your network's design standards get defined, versioned, and enforced: the codified rules every agent, assessment, and change validation reasons from. One definition here is the one everything else on the platform reads.

Design & Architecture

Design & Architecture is where you define and version Network Intent: the codified rules for what your network is supposed to do, from routing design to failover behavior to QoS priorities. The same Intents power Golden Assessment, change validation, and AI diagnosis, so one definition here is the one every agent reasons from.

Versioned by design: change an Intent, and the prior version stays available for comparison and rollback.
Feeds directly into Automation Tools’ intent-driven checks, and into the Live Network Context comparison layer that flags drift or gap.

Golden Policy & Configuration

Network Intents and Golden Configuration Studio define what your network configurations should look like and the policies that govern them. NetBrain supplies a pre-defined Golden Assessment Library to get you started.

Network Intents and Golden Config Studio (authoring/managing policies)
NetBrain supplies a Golden Assessment Library (GAL) of pre-defined best practices to get you started including specific rules (CVE, Cisco ACI, capacity, etc.).

Network Baseline

Baseline topology and device configurations, including change history, are one of the required elements behind Live Network Context: the static reference every live comparison runs against. Baseline comparison flags any device attribute that has shifted from the approved reference, whether from an authorized change or unmanaged drift.

Network Intents: your approved configurations and states, enforced against industry standards and security protocols.
Benchmark refreshes this baseline on a schedule you configure, commonly daily, so it stays current without a manual re-baseline step.