TrustRadius Insights for NetBrain Technologies are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Great Visualizations: Users appreciate the visualizations provided by NetBrain, finding them great and easy to understand. The visualizations help users gain a clear understanding of their network topology and make it easier for them to identify any issues or areas that need improvement.
Export to Visio: The ability to export detailed diagrams to Visio is highly valued by users. This feature allows them to easily document their network infrastructure and use the diagrams for audit purposes. Some users find this functionality useful in ensuring compliance with network standards.
Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Capabilities: Users find NetBrain to be a helpful tool for diagnostic and troubleshooting purposes in multivendor networks and security devices. They appreciate the dynamic mapping, real-time path analysis, and protocol-level troubleshooting capabilities offered by NetBrain. These features enable users to quickly identify and resolve network issues, improving overall network performance.
These are the three most common pros mentioned by reviewers of NetBrain. Overall, users find value in the visualizations provided by NetBrain as well as its export capabilities to Visio. Additionally, they highly appreciate its diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities for multivendor networks and security devices.
The tool is used to generate dynamic diagrams, generate runbooks that help us with troubleshooting, comparisons between pre and post changes, code upgrades, etc.…In this tool we can see all network devise together that helps a lot, special in BIG organization that network is managed by different teams. In terms of usability this is a friendly tool.
Pros
Network discovery
Config comparation
Runbooks
Cons
Improve compare results when uses a lot of devices at the same map
Likelihood to Recommend
NetBrain reduces resources in our environment, we can merge multiple tools in a single tool.
NetBrain is a automation tool which we use to automate our task. We are also using NetBrain for our network devices monitoring, using Qapps we monitor our network performance and for any protocol failure. We have integrated NetBrain with Slack and if anything goes down in the network , NetBrain notifies us via email and Slack notifications.
Pros
Network Automation
You can create Quick apps based on your requirement and run it
Set Golden path rule for your network path
Cons
After every release one or the other things stop working
API call to create INC's in SNOW,Remedy
Likelihood to Recommend
It can be best used for network monitoring, automation and for change management stuff
VU
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use NetBrain to monitor our global network environment. It is used by the Network Team to help troubleshoot or proactively prevent issues such as bottlenecks, discards, errors or dropped packets and help with the problem-solving daily. The Service Desk monitors via NetBrain 24/7 to react to issues and alerts that arise.
Pros
Identify throughput issues, discards, dropped packets, etc.
24/7 real-time monitoring
Detailed, easy to read logs
Proactive issue resolving
Ease of setup
Cons
Like to be able to send logs to SIEM
Dual links to SDWAN show as 1 circuit, would like to see both
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for our large global environment. Works well with our legacy and newer equipment. Ease of install was exciting compared to other products we POC'd. Less of a learning curve when training Teams on how to monitor and troubleshoot while in production. Service desk were able to capture the logs and load into our ticketing system with ease.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
NetBrain is part of our organization over all network management framework solution that is always offered to our customers for enhanced Network issues troubleshooting and auditing. When ever there is an outage in the network or network team wants to quickly validate the root cause we offer NetBrain to use as a single and effective tool.
Pros
Network Issues Troubleshooting
Visualizing the root cause using color coding
out of the box runbooks available
Cons
Deep Network Fault and Performance Monitoring
Historical data caching and reporting
Out of the box integrations with standard tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Although there are many products in the market that provides very simple and easy fault and performance monitoring metrics in notification format, reports and emails etc However NetBrain is a specialized tool when it comes to network issues troubleshooting for various kind of scenarios such as multicasting issues in a site can be detected live and bottle neck can be highlighted by a simple click of troubleshooting button.
We had three major reasons to search for a new documentation tool:
<ul><li>First, our old network documentation tool was not anymore supported.</li><li>Second, our network documentation was far behind the reality as with increased workload and decreased manpower we just had no time to document.</li><li>Third, we wanted a network documentation tool, not a swiss army knife solution that normally is weak in network documentation.</li></ul>The decision to buy NetBrain was made to have a new network documentation tool that updates the network documentation automatically.
Pros
It automatically updates your network documentation.
You can search for devices even if they are no longer operational (by a lot of attributes).
It can simplify your troubleshooting by showing you the L2/L3 path a packet would take.
It can automate and document the steps of troubleshooting tasks to get more information from one level of support to the next.
The support team of NetBrain is very fast and very helpful.
Heaps of information in the maps.
Cons
Not all devices are integrated with the same quality.
Not all steps are self-explaining.
The updates were difficult (but thanks to the help of support no real problem).
Likelihood to Recommend
In Cisco environments (especially IOS and IOS-XE) NetBrain looks nearly perfect. The network is loaded with heaps of information you would never document if you would have to do it manually. The information is there but you can decide what is visible at first glance and for what information you want to zoom in a bit more on the map for.
There are still some problems with the automatic documentation and path discovery with virtual L2 firewalls.
Although the implementation of the documentation of Cisco ACI is just in the beginning but, if finished, it's probably a great tool to have an end-to-end view of paths from the legacy network into SDN.
