As the number of devices grows and the number of network changes increases, manual inventory and backup processes become untenable. Network teams need a modern way to automate device inventory and backup for every device and service.
Why It’s Time to Modernize Your Current Device Inventory & Backup Processes
Network teams attempt to overcome these challenges by adopting a series of disparate tools which only focus on solving a very narrow problem. Initially, these tools serve a useful purpose, but over time this strategy starts to show serious problems as the network scales and the network organization grows. Disparate network configuration and compliance tools have a narrow focus, limited ability to scale, and do not integrate well with each other and external systems. Network teams need more than one off tools to conquer the complex challenges of achieving compliance in today’s modern network and maintaining that compliance moving forward.
Itential provides an easy way for network teams to modernize their current device inventory and backup processes so they don’t have to ever worry about tracking down a device configuration file again.
Legacy Tools
Itential Configuration Manager
Constant chaos due to inability to scale. Only able to backup certain device types, disarray or thousands of backup files, and constantly searching for what you need.
Easily access files for any device at any time. Support for thousands of network devices, both traditional and cloud services in a single platform.
Disparate tools with no integration. Tool sprawl overlapping in functions, constantly learning new tools, and no integration between any of them.
Integrate with everything. A single location to federate inventory, backup device configurations, and find those files when they are needed.
Can’t manage or provide secure access. No insight into who has access to what, members can only access pieces of what they need, or members who need access have it.
Complete RBAC control. Secure access to devices through standards-based encryption, and RBAC controls, and robust logging for every action and every user.
Stare and compare. Manually pulling stale backups, staring for hours to determine what’s changed, and never knowing the current state.
Automatically compare config diffs. Easily search, find and view previous backup files and compare them against a live configuration to see any differences for any device type.
How to Automate Device Inventory & Backup with the Itential Automation Platform
Itential’s configuration management capabilities provide a single application for all your device configurations so you can easily backup and manage inventory for all devices and services across physical and cloud.
