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Low-Code Workflow Orchestration

Design, Build, & Visualize End-to-End Network Orchestration Workflows

Itential’s low-code workflow canvas enables rapid creation of end-to-end network orchestrations across multi-vendor and hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.

  • Orchestrate any type of network or any type of network change with a single workflow environment that is vendor and technology agnostic.
  • Seamlessly connect disparate IT systems with orchestration tools and custom-built automations for end-to-end network automation.
  • Orchestrate the complete change from ticket creation to ticket closure for true closed-loop network orchestration capabilities.
  • Start fast and stay fast with out-of-the-box, Pre-Built Workflows to dozens of standard use cases.

Expand Participation & Enable Automation For All with Low-Code

The Itential Platform can be used by developers and network engineers alike regardless of network engineering knowledge or code writing capabilities. It’s intuitive low-code development interface and built-in network intelligence allows everyone on your team to contribute to your network automation goals.

Form-Driven Workflows

Form-driven workflows for drag-and-drop ease of use.

Low-Code Environment

Low-code development interface enables network engineers without application development backgrounds.

Rapid Workflow Development

Standards compliant data structures and open APIs allow large teams to rapidly develop network automation workflows.

Automation Projects

A centralized command center for collaborative automation at scale, complete with tools for access control, asset consolidation, logical organization, and seamless version control integration.

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Built-in Network Intelligence

Itential’s out-of-the-box, built-in network intelligence supports your current operations and future closed-loop logic, enabling a limitless array of network orchestration capabilities without the deep network specific knowledge.

The intuitive user interface enables engineers of all skill levels to participate in creating, visualizing, building, and executing orchestration workflows, reducing human errors and operational inefficiencies.

Built-In Rollback

Built-in fall out queues for non-predictive behavior with automatic rollback.

Pre- & Post-Checks

Exhaustive pre- and post-check capabilities to ensure smooth operational changes.

Network-Specific Forms & Templates

Easily drag-and-drop forms and templates specific to network functions to accelerate the automation of network changes and activities.

300+ Network Intelligence Features

Over 300 out-of-the-box built-in network intelligence features to enable rapid orchestration with Itential.

Build Your Modular Workflow Library with Itential’s Flexible & Reusable Pre-Built Assets

Within the Itential Platform, easily drag-and-drop Pre-Built Integrations, Data Transformations, and Workflow Automations from Itential’s Automation Marketplace onto your Project. These out-of-the-box pre-builts enable users to build flexible and reusable content pieces that can be standardized and centralized for maximum control and compliance for end-to-end network orchestration.

Orchestrate End-to-End Processes for Network Operations

With the Itential Platform, easily connect network technologies to IT systems for full end-to-end orchestration of network operations processes.

Ticket Open to Ticket Close

Orchestrate the complete change from ticket open to ticket close.

Multi-Domain Orchestration

Coordinate automated changes across different domains like data center, security, cloud domains.

IT System Integration

Automate manual swivel-chair tasks like updating IPAM, Inventory, or Monitoring systems.

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Itential Design Studio Components

Projects

Itential Projects are collaborative workspaces for teams to build and share workflows and assets, organized into a logical hierarchy. Projects allow teams to consolidate all assets needed for a given use case, modular library, or any grouping they choose, making it easier to collaborate efficiently. Access can be granted to the entire Project at once, and a Project can be saved and exported as one file. In addition, Projects can directly integrate with Git repositories, enabling teams to leverage version control features and integrate Projects into existing development processes.

Workflow Builder


The Workflow Builder the Itential Platform provides a graphical user interface for arranging and connecting tasks in a workflow to define operations and maintenance processes.

Orchestrate operations tasks at your own pace with pass, fail, and revert options. Easily add manual tasks where needed to workflows and always know the status of your completed and running workflows at any given point.

Form-Driven Workflows


Oftentimes, when working a workflow, an activity requires human interaction and data to properly perform the task. With Itential’s form driven workflows, users can easily input data or manage orchestrations with a few clicks, no need to write any custom code.
How to Create a JSON Form in the Itential Platform

Analytics Templates


Evaluate and compare results of command template pre- and post-check executions with Itential’s Analytics Templates. Ensure your orchestrations have achieved their desired result by collecting responses from a command at the beginning of the automation execution so that it can be compared against the same command at the end of the workflow after a procedure has been performed against it.

Command Templates


Build and execute automated operational activities that provide the ability to run network health checks by collecting and evaluating operational data from the network. Perform pre-checks prior to making any device changes to ensure an incident, outage, or conflicting maintenance event is not active. Conducted post-checks such as pass/fail evaluations, rule severities and variable processing, ensure device changes took effect as intended. Implement any number of checks and balances for peace of mind.
Automating Tribal Network Knowledge with Itential’s Command Templates

Intelligent Templates

Mitigate manual data parsing with Itential’s Intelligent Templates that allows users to define parsing conditions one time and apply that template for re-use. Our templates allow for parsing command responses in your workflows using pre-built or custom templates, as well as the ability to create customizable templates for specific use cases and business needs. Users can utilize TextFSM to convert unstructured CLI output into structured data or Jinja2 to build useful templates from structured data.

Creating Flexible Network Automations Leveraging Itential’s Data Parsing & Templating Features
How to Build & Incorporate Jinja2 Templates within Itential

Workflow Catalog


Securely publish and share network workflows to be utilized by other team members and consumed by other platforms. Published workflows appear in a self-service catalog within Operations Manager within the platform or can be quickly integrated into other self-service platforms like ServiceNow.

Workflows can also be scheduled to run at specific intervals or associated with API endpoints for integration into processes like CI/CD pipelines or called by other platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Itential's Design Studio?

Itential’s Design Studio is an application that enables network practitioners with no programming experience to quickly build powerful end-to-end workflows for network automation and orchestration in a low-code, drag-and-drop canvas. Within the platform, customers have the ability to download from a freely available library of 100+ pre-built use cases, adapters, and transformations to help teams run their first workflows within days instead of months.

How does Itential's Design Studio enable Network Practitioners to build workflows without programming experience?

Workflows are built in Itential’s Design Studio using a low-code, drag-and-drop canvas. API integrations with different IT systems and networking controllers are presented as tasks that can be dropped onto the canvas with logical paths and operations, linking tasks together into a logical workflow. Itential’s Studio includes the ability to build pre-check and post-check templates, input validation forms and data transformations, and use these in the automation workflow. A background in programming is not necessary to use Itential.

What are Projects in Itential's Design Studio?

Projects provide a workspace that enables automation teams to better collaborate and organize workflows and assets making it simpler to manage over time, especially as workflows grow more complex.

Does Itential store state details about the network?

The Itential platform is not intended to be the “source of truth” for the network, it integrates with both network and IT systems to allow you to build a workflow to determine the current network state before automating any changes. However, using the Lifecycle Manager application it is possible to define and store details in Itential associated with a network device or service which can be used for automation and reporting throughout the different stages of its lifecycle.

Can automations be reused in a modular fashion?

Yes, the ability to run separate, distinct workflows as a child job is available within a parent workflow. This makes it possible to build modular workflows that focus on a specific function, like opening a change request ticket in an ITSM, and reusing that as a child job in other workflows. This allows multiple teams to work within the design studio to build and manage automations that are specific to their domain. Network teams can focus on building automations related to networking tasks and leverage workflows that another team builds and maintains for processes like opening and updating change request tickets, or communications notifications to different teams.

Does Itential support closed-loop automation?

Yes, Itential supports closed-loop automation with event triggers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NETCONF, etc.) or through API webhook triggers to start any workflow. Any data made available through these triggers is available to be used within your workflow or as input to any pre-existing automation script (BASH, Python, etc.) or Ansible Playbook.

How does Itential expose network automations to more departments by allowing specific roles to execute certain tasks, start/stop or schedule recurring automations?

Workflows built in Itential’s Design Studio can be published and made available through Operations Manager. In Operations Manager, teams can define which users and groups can run or manage a workflow and schedule it to run once or on a recurring basis.

How does Itential support automation with CLI-based network devices?

The Itential Platform supports both traditional CLI-based networking devices as well as API-based networking services and building automations across either follows the same methodology in the Design Studio.

How does Itential's Design Studio support pre-check and post-check processes?

Itential’s Design Studio includes tools to quickly create pre-check and post-check functions using Command and Analytic Templates for CLI-based devices. CLI commands can be defined and executed, and the output of these commands can be captured and parsed. These templates do not require any form of code. Additionally, any API tasks that are available through integrated network systems, or any network automation scripts can be used in a workflow to build the most robust pre-check and post-check process needed.

Can pre-existing automations, like Python Scripts or Ansible Playbooks, be used in the platform?

Yes, they can. Instead of throwing away any existing automations your team may have invested in, Itential supports the ability to integrate these valuable automations by onboarding them in Automation Gateway, where they can be decorated and made available through an API interface. Automation Gateway supports nearly any script that can be run from a Linux command line, and has additional integration support for Ansible, Terraform, Nornir, and Netmiko. Automation Gateway also serves as a system to organize, test, run, and publish scripts across the entire network team and helps foster the ability to collaborate and share automations together.
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Do you provide any pre-existing automations that a customer can use in the platform?

Yes, Itential provides a freely available library of assets that cover a variety of popular use cases for both traditional networking and cloud networking and managing tasks in IT systems. These assets come bundled with documentation, workflows, and any other assets needed to get running quickly in the platform. The full library of Modular Workflows, Example Use Cases, Integrations, and Transformations are available from the Itential Automation Marketplace and integrated into the Itential platform so you can easily search and install assets as you need them.

How does Itential support self-service automation?

Itential supports multiple methods of providing self-service capabilities for a worfklow. Any workflow created in Itential’s Design Studio can be published in Operations Manager. Operations Manager provides the ability to define the individuals and groups who can manage or run a workflow from within the platform. For self service capabilities outside the platform, a workflow published can also be accessed through a RESTful API so it can be integrated into other systems and processes, if so desired.