Cruz Network Automation / SDC

Ease-of-use with Application-Based Automation

• Custom or Built-in Dynamic Groups – Simple group operations and management.
• Scheduling Everything – Discovery, backup, restore, firmware deploy, compliance, change determination, workflows etc.
• Automated OS6 Switch Data-Collection – Firmware versions, ports, interfaces, VLANs, Spanning tree information, power supplies fans, service tags and much more.
• Automated warranty status notification and Support Assist
• Automated Reports – On demand or schedule reports to automatically pull the latest inventory, asset, performance or change information
• Compliance Checking – Proactively scan the network to detect out of compliance conditions.
• Change Determination – Automate change or drift detection for your OS6 (and many others) configurations files.
• Performance and Monitoring – Built-in monitoring uses dynamic groups to automatically monitor the network.
• Performance Dashboard and Templates – Dynamic and automated views for OS6 switch CPU, MEM, TEM, ICMP, and Interfaces.
• Alerts / Events – Automatically configure devices at discovery time to send alerts and events.
• Automated Event Correlation – Auto clear corrected conditions.
• Auto Discovery – Intelligence to detect devices, types, and firmware and apply the correct management interfaces and controls.
• Automated Mapping – Automatically detect and display device L2/L3 links on visualization maps to quickly locate devices and see what is connected and where.
• Action Scripts – Quickly push action scripts to one device or groups to automatically configure or show information.
• One-click buttons for on demand actions
• Quickly locate items with easy auto search and auto-sorting
• Built-in OS6 action scripts for quick device configuration by device, groups, ports, interfaces

Automatic tracking of user activity within the application

• Systems Management – Automated aging and archive of stored data (traps, audit Logs, flow data, configurations etc.) to facilitate systems management.
• Built-in Visualization for Traffic flow Analysis – Visualize Applications, Protocols, Endpoint, and Conversations
• Automated Promote – Easily template-ize a configuration from an existing device.

Automation Engine

• Intuitive rule-based event processing to invoke one or more or actions – i.e. a script, internal task, email, text, etc.
• Closed-loop automation responds to network or error conditions and remediates automatically.
• Auto-correction will auto-remediate error conditions.
• Software-defined control for intent-based automation.
• Automation orchestration and granular control for true Software Define Networking.

Custom User-Defined Automation

• Customize or create new compliance policies with automated or event-triggered network scans.
• Customize automation rules to react to network events according to your requirements.
• Standardize network configuration with custom action scripts to return information or configure OS6 switches individually or by groups.
• Cut and paste action scripts to quickly create scripts that configure devices, ports, and interfaces to your detailed specifications.
• Capture tribal knowledge in custom action scripts to automatically execute on-demand by junior staff.
• Create action workflows with one or more predefined actions and action settings. Automatically execute in parallel, sequential, or best effort.
• Attach custom buttons to the UI portlets to customize workflow and easy one-click access to automated actions.
• Custom scheduling
• Detect a network condition, like a flapping port, or excess input/output errors or discards, and automatically shut it down or reconfigure the switch.
• Automate Threshold notifications and network configurations based on a monitor threshold event. For example, bandwidth utilization exceeds 80% on a port, send out a text to the IT admin, reconfigure queues, spanning
• Automate Conditions based on detected monitor conditions, For example, there may be a critical server attached to an OS6 port. You could build a condition; if bandwidth utilization > 80% AND Input Errors > 100 AND packet Loss >1%, then notify the IT admin "Critical server Condition on port x". With an action script that reconfigures as needed, you can automatically set the action to remediate the problem.
• Automate Syslog escalation so only the Important logs are received.
• Easily set alarm rules to filter out noise or escalate the critical ones.

Integration Automation

• Open API's for integration and automation allowing third party developers to integrate to CruzOC to retrieve data, execute features and actions
• Smart Scripting API’s with pre-built and user defined action scripts that are automatically rendered with a REST interface. This allows external entities to programmatically automate any an action.
• Built-in JSON scripting for automation to 3rd party targets, for instance, include integration to Service Now for automatic alarm ticketing.

Zero Touch Automation

• Built-in automation to detect new or unknown devices and trigger auto-discovery with automatic management and monitoring and other Day 2 operations.

Network Access Control

• Detect devices accessing the network by MAC, description, IP address, and dynamically configure ports for a pre-determined VLAN.
• Auto configure ports to utilize .1x
• Detect a device leaving the network and automatically de-provision a port and set to shutdown mode.

Orchestrate across the network – Detect a new device accessing the network and configure all devices necessary to provide the needed end-to-end access.