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    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..

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    No VLAN Interfaces in Inventory?Open

    I am trying to get a list of all VLANs in a landscape or inventory containing VLAN ID, VLAN name, IP. It looks like the inventory only provides physical interfaces but no virtual interface information? What happened tointerface Vlan300 description VLAN 300 ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0In the detail information of each device these interfaces are listed in the interface section but do not appear in the inventory.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Change the device information on the mapOpen

    On the maps, the devices are shown with host name, IP and device type but device type is not very informative e.g. “Cisco IOS Switch”. It would be much better to show the model like “C9500-40X”.

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    pradeep.gaddameedi
    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    MarcoFrequent Participant

    Allow search when adding new OIDsOpen

    Hi, please consider to add a search function when user has to manually add a new vendor model. It is not easy to scroll long list of device Type, Vendor, Driver and so on.Thanks, Marco 

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Allow overriding the output of scheduled QAppOpen

    Scheduled QApp exports CSV with a unique name every time, appending random digits to the file name. It makes it difficult to script output parsing because the name of the latest file exported by QApp can’t be easily determined. Please add a checkbox in NetBrain GUI to allow overriding the result of QApp export, and make the file name static.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    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?

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Provide a switch to render path trace in L2 right awayOpen

    L3 path traces can be done using traceroute so the value of NetBrain’s path trace is not in its ability to render L3 path traces visually but to show the underlying L2 path.It would be useful to have a switch/button in NetBrain GUI and also API to render path traces in L2 right away.Currently we can only start an L3 path trace via API and run some device/link checks on the path using a DVT but it’s not of much use given that L2 path is often different from L3 path.With a switch as mentioned above, we could trigger a path trace directly in L2, so the DVT checks applied to L2 links would make much more sense and be more useful for troubleshooting.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    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.

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    zhaoxu
    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    gshaw550New Participant

    Add the ability to Clone/Duplicate in some key areasOpen

    Hi NetBrain, It would be great to be able to clone or duplicate details that have been entered into NetBrain in some key areas, for example: Being able to clone the “Basic System Benchmark” task or any other task, this way we can create standard tasks , duplicate and do minor tweaks (such as the device scope) it will save a lot of effort and upkeep. The same goes for Layout Styles in Map Layout manager, it would be great to clone those and and tweak as required. Thanks for your consideration

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    zhaoxu
    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    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

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    zhaoxu
    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    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.

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    weicai
    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Smart CLI improvementOpen

    Smart CLI would be much more useful if it was possible to :Open a connection to multiple devices at once (e.g. select multiple devices on a map, right-click and choose “Smart CLI”). Send a command to multiple devices at once.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Lindsay LiKnown Participant

    request to support IPv6On Roadmap

    Our environment has a lot of IPv6 only devices that NetBrain don't support for now, so we have to assign IPv4 addresses to each one of them manually and that's very time consuming. Since we are planning to have more and more pure IPv6 devices, I'd like to request NB to fully support those devices just like you do with IPv4. IPv6 is the next big thing, so supporting IPv6 will greatly increase our adoption with NetBrain.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Names of maps triggered by SNOW shall contain the number of triggering INCUnder Consideration

    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    List L2 Connections as TextAvailable

    From a map with L2 connections I would like to have an export of all shown connections as text. Something like this format:device1, interface Gi1 - device2, interface Gi1/1device1, interface Gi2- device3, interface Gi1/5 and so on.I imagine this should not be too difficult because the information is already available on the map, it could be done as a CSV export or in a Note on the map.

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    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.

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Improve path trace to account for web-proxiesOpen

    A ping (ICMP traffic) from my VM to e.g. netbraintech.com takes a different path than an Web request  (HTTP(S)) traffic to netbraintech.com: (1) ping: VM => hop A => hop B => hop C => internet border router => Internet. (2) Web: VM => hop A => hop X => web-proxy => hop Y => internet border router => Internet.However, NetBrain can only map the 1st (ping type) path because it’s not aware that VMs in our company are configured with proxy settings for Web traffic.Therefore, to get the 2nd path, I have to trace 2 separate paths: from VM to proxy; from proxy to internet.With the following enhancement to the path trace tool NetBrain could perhaps trace both paths on my behalf and stitch them together into a single path: - add an optional “Proxy” field to path trace tool; - if it’s blank, do a normal path trace; - if it has a device name, trace from source to that device, then from that device to destination.I’m aware of Path IP and Gateway fix-up rules, but when using them, the trace from source to proxy is displayed as a single step whereas in reality it’s not.

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    Suresh Viswanathan
    Suresh ViswanathanNew Participant

    Feedback/Thought - False Positive Alerting _ Overall Health MonitorOpen

    Hi – Looks like PC/Unsupported devices are marked as Device/Interface Down in the health monitor. SNMP failed is a false positive statement.Yet possibly we can have an alternate Warning Message stating “SNMP not supported for this device type”Note: Please comment for enhancement request only if this is productive 😊 pfa images. Thanks. !

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    Suresh Viswanathan
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Please make the output of Tune Live Access exportable!Open

    In order to understand which devices are properly onboarded to NetBrain (via either SSH access, API access or other means that guarantee full visibility for a device in NetBrain) and which aren’t, one way to check is by using Domain Management => Operations => Advanced Tools => Tune Live Access.However, all the benefits of this tool/functionality are negated by the fact that the output is not exportable to e.g. a CSV file.Can you please address this gap or suggest other ways to check which devices are fully onboarded to NetBrain and which aren't (i.e. visible via SNMP polls only or ping only but not SSH/API access)?

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Inconsistent selection of endpoints for path trace when One-IP table contains historical records for the same IPOn Roadmap

    Per NB DEV team, if there’s more than 1 entry for a given IP, the old one will be considered first as it was inserted into the DB first…Which doesn’t make sense because the most recent record from One-IP table should be used for every endpoint.Can the above mentioned behavior be changed somehow?

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Possibility to continue path trace with only user mode access to deviceUnder Consideration

    Our SD-WAN will be managed by a third-party, and our NetBrain instance won’t have privileged access to any SD-WAN device (no matter edge router or controller, via SSH or API).As more and more SD-WAN routers are being deployed in our environment, cross-country path traces start failing in NetBrain. In a year or so a big part of this very useful NetBrain functionality will be gone for us.The 3rd party MSP agreed to grant us only user-mode SSH access to SD-WAN routers, meaning we’ll be able to login and do pings/traceroutes off those routers.Would it be possible to create a solution (patch / plugin / QApp etc.) whereby if a path trace hits a device with a specific naming convention (or other defined parameters), NetBrain would switch to using traceroute command to continue path trace on that device, and once it’s able to get past those devices, switch back to normal mode of tracing?

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    Forum|Forum|3 years ago

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