Itential

Itential is an automation and orchestration solution built to support both network and cloud, that helps enterprises and service provider organizations to maintain network compliance, reduce manual operations, and simplify network management. The Itential Automation Platform is a low-code solution that connects IT systems with network technologies for end-to-end network configuration, compliance, and automation.

With Itential’s patented network automation and orchestration solutions, network and cloud teams can:

Consolidate, Organize & Modernize CLI Automation Assets
Propel network automation and network programmability with Itential’s ‘Bring Your Own Automation’ capabilities to enable network teams to securely organize, run, and share their library of CLI automations.

• Centralize & Consolidate Management of Scripts - Further enhances the value of custom-built Scripts, Ansible, Terraform, NetMiko, and Nornir automation assets.
• Dynamic Discovery & Federation - Dynamically discover and federate CLI automations for organization.
• Decorate & Share - Decorate automations and securely share them with IT teams.
• Next-Gen Network Inventory - Utilize a network inventory engine built on a real-time federated data model.

Use Pre-Built Automations or Design & Build Your Own Automation Workflows
Network teams can design and build automations using Itential’s low-code, drag-and-drop workflow canvas for rapidly creating visual automation workflows or leverage a library of hundreds of out-of-the-box Pre-Built Automations for top use cases.

• Build Your Own Automations - Itential’s low-code, drag-and-drop interface enables users to design, build, and visualize repeatable automation workflows.
• Pre-Built Automations - Itential includes out-of-the-box collection of Pre-Built Automations for simple, reusable, and rapid deployment of network automation capabilities.
• Publish & Share Automations - Securely publish network automations to network and IT teams to enable self-service automation, with full logging and accountability.
• Incorporate CI/CD Pipelines with Network Automations - Itential integrates with any pipeline management tool so users can Incorporate CI/CD practices into their network automation and orchestration initiatives to gain greater velocity and improve delivery.

Backup, Manage, & Validate Network Configurations
Manage configurations for both physical and cloud infrastructure and ensure compliance across a network.

• Visibility Across Networks - All configurations are stored in one place for easy backup and management of configurations for all devices and services across physical and cloud.
• Golden Configuration Templates - Dynamic and flexible Golden Configuration templates for any device and any service across network and cloud infrastructure.
• Validate Changes Before They are Made - Validate a change before it’s made, eliminating exposure due to configuration drift.
• Automated Remediation & Reporting - Automate the remediation of devices and cloud services that are out of compliance.

Integrate with Everything in Your Environment
Simplify your network automation ecosystem with out-of-the-box integrations to hundreds of systems spanning authentication, cloud, controllers and orchestrators, DevOps and NetOps tools, configuration management, inventory, ITSM, notifications and messaging, SD-WAN, security, and telemetry and analytics.

• Integrate with Any CLI & API Technology - Over hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations to systems spanning authentication, cloud, controllers and orchestrators, DevOps and NetOps tools, inventory, ITSM, notifications and messaging, SD-WAN, security, and telemetry and analytics.
• Achieve Closed-Loop Network Automation - Itential integrates with any monitoring and pipeline systems, providing advanced event-driven capabilities that enable NetOps teams to automate the detection of anomalies, determine a resolution, and implement the required changes within a continuous, highly automated framework.
• Manage Data Through Federation & Transformation - Consume, transform, and federate any data or modeling language (YANG, YAML, JSON, and TOSCA), into JSON Schema for managing data for automations.
• Deliver a Network API to IT Teams - Leverage a single, aggregated network API that provides network self-service capabilities to other IT teams, enabling ease of consumption.

Manage, Measure, & Scale Automation Across an Organization
Itential provides awareness and understanding of every automation across the organization and how its performing within the Itential Automation Platform.

• Automation Job Management - Manage organization’s automations, view every job in real-time as it is running, paused, or canceled.
• Automation Job Metrics -Determine how much time automations are saving the team and organization, as well as identifying any bottlenecks.
• Automation Job Optimizations - Historical metrics on every automation, providing the insight teams need to iterate and improve their automations.