Infoblox NetMRI

Many organisations wait for network health issues to occur and then react. And most continue to manually handle network configuration, change and compliance requirements, even though:

  • 60-80% of all network issues are tied to manual network change
  • Over 70% of the day is spent on unplanned work
  • Up to 80% of all IT resources are consumed just to maintain the network status quo

As new technologies such as VoIP, virtualisation and cloud computing introduce even more complexity into network administration efforts, the old ways of dealing with network changes and configurations no longer suffice in business-critical network environments.

Infoblox NetMRI is a network change and configuration management (NCCM) solution using automation, control and proactive management to ensure that changes to the network achieve the intended results and find any unintended consequences before users are impacted and complaints start rolling in. NetMRI provides a complete lifecycle solution for managing network configuration and change that provides the fastest time to value for IT organisations.

Offering physical and virtual appliance deployment options, NetMRI audits multi-vendor infrastructures, identifies anomalies early, speeds resolution and automates network changes, allowing you to:

  • Determine how change impacts both network health and compliance
  • Maintain a predictable and consistent network with embedded best practices and proactive monitoring
  • Increase staff efficiency via automation, problem isolation and improved remediation options
  • Put a stop to user complaints and network issues
  • With a single click, generate reports to check your adherence to PCI DSS, SOX and other regulatory compliance mandates as well as to internal policies

Use NetMRI to automate network data collection, analysis and reporting of network infrastructure devices to greatly improve the efficiency and predictability of your network.

Infoblox NetMRI For VoIP

Adding the VoIP module gives NetMRI the ability to collect call data records from Cisco and Avaya call servers and merge the call records with network analytics, giving a single view of calls and network performance. Each call can then be analysed and displayed graphically to show which network device or devices impacted a particular call, making proactive detection of VoIP issues on the network simple.

Infoblox NetMRI Features and Benefits

Automate Network Changes
  • Set user controls/access and automate single or bulk changes
  • Track who made what changes to which device and when, and the impact of each change to network health and policy
  • Maintain control with administrative role-based access and authorisation
  • Keep up-to-date with tracking and reporting on the devices on the network
Manage Network Configurations
  • Log and save multiple configurations with easy comparison and rollback options
  • Leverage embedded intelligence and policies to find suboptimal configurations
  • Remediate poor settings automatically with embedded expertise and rules
  • Quickly visualise and correlate impact of change with network health and compliance
  • Understand the complex relationship between devices, network neighbours and service paths
Maintain Network Compliance, Standards, and Best Practices
  • Leverage embedded rules and policies including ISO, PCI DSS, NSA, DISA and others
  • Monitor current configurations and receive proactive notification for violations
  • Ease time to remediation with built-in scripts and jobs
  • Find violations faster through proactive monitoring and notification
  • Leverage your existing scripts
Decrease Time to Value
  • Reduce complex tasks by leveraging built-in scripts and policies for change automation and issue remediation
  • Understand what’s on the network via automatic, detailed discovery and topology views of Layer 2 and 3 devices
  • See overall quality, status and trending with the Network Scorecard
  • Support enterprise-grade networks with single web interface and distributed architecture

"NetMRI is like having an expert network engineer look at our network & make recommendations on what problems there are & how to fix them - objectively & automatically"
Walter Curd, Director of IT, Marvell Semiconductor