NetBrain Feature Requests

Show Cisco Power Stacking NeighboursOpen

Hi,using the command “show power-stack neighbors” you could also show how Cisco devices are connected via the power stacks. Power stacks and the way they are connected is quite important, an incorrect connection will make the redundancy invalid. But please keep the power stack connection separate from path tracing ;) .

1 year ago

Kelly ScrogginsNew Participant

Sorting order for show commands in the RunbookOpen

This idea is to create an option that allows the user to select the sorting method they prefer for the commands on the CLI Runbook.For the CLI execution in the runbook, after the commands are executed, they are sorted in alphabetical order. At one time, this was not the case. They were left in the order in which they are added to the runbook.I prefer to see and scroll through the commands in the order I add them to the runbook. I do not want them to be re-sorted in any other way.However, Netbrain support tells me this is not likely to be changed unless there is enough support for it from this community.Do any of you think this idea would be a benefit?

leadwestNew Participant

present topology vs future topology layered/overlay network maps.Open

Just a way to visibly inspect between old and new network diagrams by overlaying. You could adjust the opaqueness of each map on each layer.

leadwestNew Participant

Cable pull diagrams with important floorplanOpen

Be able to import floorplans from PDF and layout cable pull present/future diagrams and length estimations.

leadwestNew Participant

Collaboration portal (Function portal enhancement)Open

I aim to enhance the functionality of our function portal to facilitate easier network visibility for internal teams and vendors without compromising security or causing frustration during troubleshooting sessions.Our goal is to extend access to our function portal to internal ESS/SOC teams and federal staff, allowing them to observe our network without the need for account creation or modification privileges.During vendor calls, our organizational screen-sharing policies prevent us from granting control, resulting in inefficiencies and frustration. To streamline troubleshooting, I propose enabling vendor support teams to access a shared collaborative space within the portal. They would open affected site map or a custom map of just the chosen devices then vendor users could then:-Bring up a popup “console” to run Commands on the devices.-Execute show commands through netbrain- just how we do with the runbooks on our maps.-Execute diagnostic or live updating commands- Some commands periodically update live- would be nice for that to display on the screen.-Shared notepad that individuals can place notes on. We would also be able to log the actions of the vendor support. We could capture commands and logs in chronological order, identifying useful operational processes for specific issues. This data could then be transformed into a digital assistant or qapp to expedite troubleshooting.With this type of access- we would need heavier security:Example: Rather than a static passcode or user account. Make PKI,OTP, MFA, etc. available for authentication to the portal.Example: Adjustable data obfuscation for different levels of collaborators.Example: dropping the authentication settings and hashes out of the configuration,Example: No copy/paste

leadwestNew Participant

Isometric "3d" mapsOpen

I would like to be able to create themed isometric layouts like in the examples below.

leadwestNew Participant

honeycomb (and other) grids for MapsOpen

Currently we have snapping and I’m excited about that. Currently it is only vertical and horizontal.I would like to see different "Grids" for the layout of the map that you can use to “Snap” your device icons to. These snap grids would come in Hexagonal, trianglular, isometric, honeycomb,etc. basically faint guidelines in different shapes (match the shape of the devices to the shape of the map grids.

Professor_MattNew Participant

Schedule Intent Task via System Benchmark TaskOpen

Please add the option to have Scheduled Intent Tasks execute after a Benchmark just like we currently can with DVT and Qapp tasks. Thanks! :)

Change Execute CLI ExportOpen

When I execute a CLI command on many devices of a map using the Execute CLI Command and then export it, I get a ZIP file with one file per device. I would like to use an option to export all results in one file.ThanksCarsten

Dug1609New Participant

Network Intent 'How-To' seriesOpen

Using Camtasia (or similar) screen video capture software, create a series of video’s showing fully narrated “Dirt Simple” Network Intents, and then progressing through to more complex intents.The goal is to help the majority of NetBrain users who’ve never used a Network Intent to move from ground zero to at least a novice working knowledge of how to use Network Intents.For example: Start with how to create a network intent which starts with a simple ‘Show Run’ for an access switch. Import the Show Run data into a Network Intent. Parse and create a variable for the size of the log table. Add steps to change the log size to 64000. Show deployment running on one switch. Show deployment running on 4 or 5 switches just as easily. Show how to only update specific switches.Innovate and add complexity from there.

SteveBrainNew Participant

Support for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)Open

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense devices use separate interfaces for SNMP and CLI, while Netbrain Fine Tune only allows for a single management IP for both CLI and SNMP. As a result, Cisco FTDs that are discovered via SNMP are not accessible via CLI. Attempts to allow SNMP on the CLI interface on the FTDs have failed to allow Netbrain to properly discover and access these devices, and per Netbrain Support there is no ETA on supporting these devices.

brett.koger

Link Windows Files to Site MapOpen

Being able to upload a PDF file to NetBrain is useful, but it would be better if we could link to windows files from a map.

harishchandrasKnown Participant

Radius Support for User authenticationOpen

currently i see that radius authentication is not supported. It will be great if we have it

David BevanNew Participant

Network Intent ability to compare current and previous result has changed by a certain amount/percentageOpen

Network Intent ability to compare current and previous result has changed by a certain amount/percentageeg. If error count goes up by 1 (or 0.001%) then that is OKif error count goes up by perhaps 1000 or (10%) then it is NOT OKCurrent checks only allow for basic test of greater than, less than, equals, not equals etc..

Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

Provide MTU data for interfaces in Inventory Reports => Interface reportsOpen

There’s no easy way to quickly check interface MTUs throughout the network and spot potential mismatches. Therefore having a column for MTU in Interface Report would greatly help with network audits.

Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

Enable sound notifications for alertsOpen

Having an alert in the GUI is good but usually no one in the NOC constantly watches GUIs, so having a sound notification would greatly help. It’s already implemented in all monitoring software like Zabbix / Nagios / Cacti etc.

Monitor physical links in a port-channelOpen

When one physical link goes down inside a port-channel with mupltiple physical links, your port-channel will continue to work and unless you monitor the physical connections, there will be no alert. When the port-channel is used for a Cisco FEX (Fabric Extender) it will be difficult to model this in your monitoring because there is not endpoint to define it on.My suggestion: collect all port-channels of a map and their physical interfaces and then query the status of the interfaces. Port-channels with less than 100% working interfaces are marked on the map.This could also be used for pre and post change checks.

aholmanNew Participant

How to best backup the F5 UCS file for F5 Big-IP devices in NetBrain 10.1?Open

How to best backup the F5 UCS file for F5 Big-IP devices in NetBrain 10.1?

Dynamic Search Interface Criteria OptimizationOpen

When creating a Dynamic Device Group using Dynamic Search Interface I can only use pre-defined interface criteria. If my criteria do not exist in the drop down list, then I cannot filter for it and I doubt that NB will ever get the criteria list complete and up to date with all the updates from the vendors. What I would like to see is the option Free Text or String. That would be independant of criteria or vendor updates.

Collaps/expand all modulesOpen

I would like to have a button to collapse or expand all modules in Device Details - Properties - Module. At the moment I have to collapse every single module and that is tedious clicking when you have 30 - 40 modules.

gshaw550New Participant

NetBrain - Feature Request, Enhance Runbook exportOpen

Dear NetBrain, Regarding the Export feature of Runbooks. The export of Runbook information is really detailed “after” the Runbook has been executed, you can see the results of the commands run and the comparison. But we would like to export the Runbook details to Word before the Runbook is executed, so we can put the details into a Change Authorisation Form (part of the change management process outside of NetBrain which needs sign off before we can execute the Runbook) So as an example, in a Runbook you could create a step to run two show commands and then collect the standard set of “Built-in Live data” across a number of devices. At this stage we would like to see in the export what tables will be retrieved and commands are going to be run. But when you export a Runbook that has not yet been run you do not get this information, it focuses on the results (which have not been run at this stage) not the commands or tables you will be collecting. Would it be possible to include the commands and tables that will be run in the Runbook export, as a new feature?e.g in the export for that step in the Runbook something like this: Runbook StepDevices in Scope:Switch1 Switch2 Router3 Commands to be executed:show run show int status Tables to be collected:MAC Table ARP TableThis would save us double keying this information into a separate Change Authorisation Form, we could export all of this and save a lot of time, this detail makes up 90% of the form. Many Thanks for your consideration, happy to discuss further

Configuration ComparisonOpen

Is there already a Qapp that checks for differences between “show run” and “show configuration”, or generally between active and saved configurations? If not, I would like to present this as an idea. This check could be used generally in maps or networks as part of the health check or could be used specifically to accompany changes, to make sure that the changes were not only made but saved as well.

Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

Names of maps triggered by SNOW shall contain the number of triggering INCOpen

Currently maps triggered by SNOW are named using a fixed part and a numerical part that has nothing to do with SNOW INC number. It prevents from being able to search the map related to an incident, or do cleanup of unnecessary maps. Having the SNOW INC number reflected in NetBrain map name would ease many things.

Optimize Sorting of IP AddressesOpen

Please optimze the sorting of IP addresses in lists, for instance in the management IP list in Shared Device Settings. Example:10.0.13.3210.0.15.3210.0.8.010.0.8.14010.0.8.16010.0.8.16210.0.8.17610.0.8.17810.0.8.18010.0.8.210.0.15.32 should come after 10.0.8.0, not before.10.0.8.180 should come after 10.0.8.2, not before.