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Network Audit

SteelCentral NetAuditor is a comprehensive solution that helps companies diagram, manage and report enterprise configuration.  The solution’s context-specific network maps and diagrams enables users to troubleshoot network and configuration issues, automate audit reporting, and better execute network changes.

What is network configuration management?

Accurate and up-to-date infrastructure audits and diagrams are essential for network troubleshooting, regulatory compliance, planning, and change management. Many organizations rely on labor-intensive and error-prone manual processes to update diagrams. The level of effort required to maintain up-to-date inventory and accurate network configurations continues to mount as networks become increasingly complex, dynamic, and virtualized.

Features and benefits SteelCentral NetAuditor software

SteelCentral NetAuditor is a comprehensive solution that helps companies diagram, manage and report enterprise configuration.  The solution automatically discovers your network elements — highlighting new and modified devices and configuration changes in a web interface — and creates a high-definition network model using configuration data, show commands, and SNMP. SteelCentral NetAuditor:

  • Creates on-demand maps and diagrams, including application network paths using a web interface to troubleshoot networking problems
  • Performs in-depth analysis of network elements including routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls and WAN Optimizers including Riverbed SteelHead
  • Creates automated network diagrams using configuration and operational data including physical, logical and virtual components
  • Offers over 1,500 out-of-the-box rules based on industry best practices, security standards as well as customized rules and templates for organizational standards and requirements

NetAuditor dramatically reduces the workload associated with maintaining up-to-date and accurate network configuration and documentation.  In addition, it maximizes network availability by improving troubleshooting and change management processes with accurate and complete network auditing and diagramming.