Change Management
Netcordia Makes Short Work of Network Changes
Benefits
- Minimizes downtime and other issues by controlling configuration changes made by staff
- Helps you plan, execute, and validate all network configuration changes
- Compares configuration against policy and deploys changes automatically across a large number of devices
- Automates the audit process for faster notification of configuration changes
The More Your Network Changes, the Greater Its Vulnerabilities
The greatest threat to your network’s infrastructure is not harmful traffic or targeted attacks. It’s the behavior of the people who work on it. Specifically, the people who make changes to the network cause the biggest problems. They may not realize it, but even the slightest re-configuration can have a ripple effect and essentially bring the entire system down in a short period of time.
Separate studies by Gartner Research and by IDC Research show that internal people making configuration changes cause more than half of all IT problems (40 to 60%). In other words, if you could monitor and prevent unauthorized changes on the network—in real time—you could cut your IT troubles in half.
Netcordia’s customers report spending an average of six (6) IT man-days a month dealing with manual configuration changes prior to installing NetMRI. That translates into more than 72 man-days a year—a loss of 3.5 months of IT work annually!—just fixing other people's network changes. This costly endeavor also leaves your network vulnerable to downtime and security breaches.
NetMRI Detects Configuration Changes Automatically
The Netcordia solution enables you to detect changes throughout your network, regularly and systematically, and to report these changes before they create system-wide trouble. By auditing configuration changes across a large number of network devices from an array of different vendors, our solution will not only greatly reduce your time spent on change management, but also decrease vulnerabilities that can impact productivity, compliance, and security.
NetMRI can audit every network device and report all changes on a daily or ad hoc basis, whenever you need it. We have automated the process of managing configuration changes to reduce manual involvement and free up IT for more strategic initiatives. Any change on any network device—regardless of vendor or time of activation—will show up in NetMRI's daily report, alerting you of changes before they can negatively impact your network.
Compare Configurations for Troubleshooting and Compliance Monitoring
You can also have NetMRI compare your currently running configuration with earlier configurations from a library of Netcordia-archived revisions. This serves as an excellent troubleshooting tool when adding or upgrading devices. You can also compare the current configuration with a standard compliance template to ensure that all devices on your network meet the latest compliance standards and company network policies.
Now you can plan, execute, and validate all network configuration changes in a more timely and efficient manner. Perform configuration comparisons at any time, and deploy new configurations in accordance with your company's policies—with absolute confidence—knowing that any non-compliant change will be reported to you in a clear, graphical, easy-to-understand analysis.
Aren't you ready to automate change management on your network?
Change Management in Action:
NetMRI Keeps a Bank’s Checks from Bouncing
In a large U.S. bank, late one Friday afternoon, check processing ground to an agonizing halt, leaving customers’ funds frozen and the bank’s IT department scrambling to find out what was wrong.
The bank’s CIO, directors, and a cadre of network engineers spent the entire weekend onsite before discovering that someone internally had changed a router configuration, thinking it would improve performance. The bank narrowly averted hundreds of thousands of dollars in government fines, as well as the loss of countless customers’ trust.
A week later, the bank's directors and head of IT approved the deployment of NetMRI to automate the detection of configuration changes. Since then, NetMRI has flawlessly anticipated network problems caused by network evolution, device additions, and upgrades.