Network Intelligence and Governed Automation Inside Cisco Cloud Control
NetBrain integrates with Cisco Cloud Control, bringing verified network intelligence and governed automation directly into the platform. Shared data and insights help agents reason and act faster across IT operations, improving business outcomes. Together with NetBrain and Cisco every network change is governed, approved, and traceable.
Closing the Gap in
Cross-Domain Investigations
Networks are the first place enterprises look when something breaks. Investigations that begin in Cisco AI Canvas, part of Cisco Cloud Control, gain immediate context of the current network state. With NetBrain, AI agents can reason on authoritative network context and rely on NetBrain agents to take the needed actions.
How It Works
What Flows Across the Integration
NetBrain connects to Cisco Cloud Control through MCP. Two things flow across the integration:
- Context. NetBrain’s network intelligence spanning a multi-vendor enterprise environment is exposed as authoritative network data to inform AI agents across Cisco AI Canvas.
- Action. NetBrain’s network automation actions like runbook execution, validated configuration push, path validation, and assessments. NetBrain executes through existing approval gates and rollback safeguards.
The integration extends, but does not change, NetBrain customers’ existing deployments. What is new is bringing NetBrain to cross-domain workflows and collaboration inside Cisco Cloud Control.
Why It Matters
NetBrain provides the authoritative source for the network: verified, multi-vendor network intelligence and the governed automation to close what investigation surfaces. Joint customers running both
- Investigate with grounded context. AI agents reason on verified network state—current topology, path, configuration, and intent—not stale or inferred data.
- Improved visibility across domains. Teams across network, cloud, security, applications and more gain a shared view of network state, diagnosis and remedication.
- Cross-domain issues close faster. A leading health insurer resolved a weeks-old VPN connectivity issue in under five minutes. A large manufacturer isolated a critical device root cause in under twenty minutes—a more than 95% reduction in MTTR.
""When operations engineers want to troubleshoot an incident, assess the impact of a change, or to interact with devices in real time, they go to NetBrain.""
""NetBrain automations allow this department to proactively find and fix configuration drift, security flaws, and potential application issues before they affect users.”"
"NetBrain is really a lifesaver. We have so many users who leverage the NetBrain data every day."
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the integration with Cisco Cloud Control?
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NetBrain integrates with Cisco Cloud Control via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). This makes NetBrain’s verified network intelligence and automation actions available to AI agents working in Cisco AI Canvas.
- Can agents act on what they find, or only investigate?
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Both. AI agents in Cisco AI Canvas can query NetBrain’s network intelligence to reason on live context and call NetBrain to execute automation actions—runbook automation, validated configuration push, path validation, or assessment runs. Humans approve before anything changes.
- What do joint customers gain?
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Joint customers—those running both NetBrain and Cisco Cloud Control—can now investigate and resolve cross-domain incidents without switching between tools. Network context and governed automation are both available directly inside Cisco AI Canvas.
- What network capabilities are available to AI agents?
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AI agents can access NetBrain’s verified network intelligence (current topology, path calculations, configuration archive, ACLs, routing state, and intent) and invoke NetBrain automation actions (runbook execution, validated configuration push, path validation, and assessment runs).
- Does this work in hybrid and multi-vendor environments?
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Yes. NetBrain operates across hybrid, cloud, and multi-vendor networks, providing consistent topology discovery, diagnostics, and automation regardless of the underlying infrastructure.
- Does this change my existing NetBrain deployment?
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No. The integration extends, but does not change, NetBrain customers’ existing deployments. NetBrain’s Deep Diagnosis Agent, Runbook Companion, Assessment Agent, AI Path Doctor, and Agent Skills continue to run on the NetBrain platform.
- What version of NetBrain supports this integration?
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Compatible with NetBrain R12.1 and higher. Contact your NetBrain representative for version-specific details.
See NetBrain
in Cisco AI Canvas
NetBrain is demonstrating the integration
live at Cisco Live Las Vegas:
Zero Outage Lounge
Mandalay Bay Suite
May 31 – June 4
Race to Agentic NetOps event
Grand Prix Plaza
June 2
