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NetBrain Technologies, Inc.
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NetBrain CE 4.1
Overview of New Features
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New Features Overview
1. Visual Search: Access network knowledge visually
2. Integrate Visio and Q-Map
3. Site Map
4. Dynamic Device Group and Variable-enabled Link Group
5. Support New Vendors and Models
6. Support Spanning Tree and DMVPN
7. Support SNMP V3 and SNMP Walking
8. Mapping Enhancements
9. Simplify Setup Process
10. Discovery and Inventory Report Enhancements
1. Access Network Knowledge Visually
Search Map Drill-Down
• Search device, configuration, Visio, Q-map, show-command output, NetBrain database
• Multiple dynamic mapping methods integrated around search results
• Bring up relevant Visio diagrams • Operations around search results
• Drill-down network design from the Q-Map
• Analyze the history from the Q-map
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1.1 All-in-one Search
Common Searches:
» IP address
» Configure keywords
» Text inside Visio maps
» Text inside show-command
output
» Hardware model
» MAC address
» Serial number
» Circuit ID
» Hostname
» And more…
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1.2 Map Out Search Results
Mouse over a search result to create a preview map, including L3 topology view, L2
topology view and others.
L3 Map
L2 Map
Map Group
Show Visio
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1.3 Access Relevant Visio Maps
Click the “Visio” button from within a Q-Map to find relevant Visio maps
» A fast way to access knowledge stored in existing Visio diagrams
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2. Integrate Static Visio With Dynamic Q-Map
Dynamic Access to Visio Diagrams (from Search, Q-map or a
device)
Convert Visio to a Q-Map for Dynamic Network Analysis
Organize Visio and Q-Map In One Easy-to-Access Place -> Map
Center
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2.1 Search the Content of Visio files
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2.2 Convert a Visio Map to a Q-map
To take advantage of dynamic Q-map’s analysis feature, you can convert a Visio into a Q-
Map with one-click, assuming all devices in Visio have been discovered by NetBrain.
A New Dynamic Q-Map An Existing Visio Map
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2.3 Zoom into a Q-map to Access Visio
While working on a Q-Map, you may need to refer to an existing Visio map. Simply zoom
in on a Q-Map to bring up all related Visio maps. The relevance is weighted by common
devices on the maps.
List of all relevant
maps
Preview a relevant
Visio map
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3. Hierarchical Sites and Site Maps
Define the border link to split a network into child sites, or group devices
into a child site.
Site Maps represent a high-level view of the whole network or a parent
site, showing the child sites and their connections.
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3.1 Use Site to Monitor WAN Performance
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4. Dynamic Device Group and Link Group
Users can set the criteria to search devices in a device group according to the device type,
hostname, IP address, vendor, model, serial number, software version, contact, location and
configurations.
The link group (a group of interfaces) can be defined dynamically or manually. Users can set the
criteria to search interfaces according to the interface name, IP address, description, routing
protocol, MPLS VRF and multicasting mode. The user can also define a variable in the link group,
such as #eigrp_ID. When mapping the link group, the user can select or define a value for the
variable.
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5. Support New Vendors and Models
NetBrain provides tier 1 and 2 support for all vendors and models with some customized work by the
user or help from the NetBrain support team.
Live Discovery: NetBrain can discover any SNMP reachable network devices.
Monitoring: NetBrain is able to monitor any SNMP reachable devices.
Retrieve live data: NetBrain supports retrieving live data (configuration, route table, MAC table,
ARP table, CDP table, LLDP, and CAM table) via both CLI commands and SNMP.
L3/L2 topology: NetBrain is able to build L3 topology from device configurations and/or L2
topology from the Layer 2 data if the corresponding data is successfully retrieved.
Path discovery: NetBrain is able to discover the path if the network devices along the path are
SNMP reachable and/or their routing table can be retrieved.
For tier 3 support (design reader and parsing of live data), NetBrain supports the following device
vendors and models: Cisco IOS Router, Cisco IOS Switch, Cisco Catalyst Switch, Cisco Nexus
Switch, Nexus VDC, Cisco LWAP, Cisco WLC, Juniper JunOS Router and Switch, HP Procurve
Switch, 3Com Switch and Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall. Tier 3 support for more vendors is in our
roadmap.
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6. Support Spanning Tree and DMVPN
Retrieve and parse STP in the benchmark process.
Highlight STP blocked ports in the L2 map.
Automatically create DMVPN cloud from configuration files.
Drag and drop a DMVPN to a map and extend its neighbors.
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7. Support SNMP V3 and SNMP Walking
The SNMP v3 is supported in this release. However, proxy ping via SNMP v3 is not supported yet.
Users can configure the SNMP version in the device setting.
A SNMP Walk Tool is provided to retrieve all SNMP MIB information for a device.
Device Settings
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8. Mapping Enhancements
Users can select additional information to be shown on the map from the properties pane.
The map highlighting can be exported to Visio.
HSRP, VRRP or GLBP information is shown under the LAN’s name on the map.
The serial link can be changed from a straight line to a curve.
Users can select which neighbors to extend for a MPLS cloud (in release 3.1, users can only extend
all neighbors of a MPLS cloud).
Users can highlight the interface rate, route propagation, site and link group on the L3 map.
The CDP table entry can be dragged onto the map to display their connections.
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8.1 Device Icon Customization
Users can select a customized icon for a device type or a vendor-model.
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8.2 L2 Mapping Enhancements
L2 maps can be validated and automatically updated.
Users can highlight voice VLAN and STP blocked ports on the L2 map.
Support auto-link for L2 maps.
Support the Map Device Group function for the L2 map page.
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9. Simplify Setup Process
The startup Wizard has been simplified to 2 steps:
1. Define live access credentials and network proxies
2. Discover the live network and build L3 & L2 topology
» After these two steps, the Workstation will sync with the Enterprise Server automatically
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10. Network Discovery Enhancements
Added the global option to allow users to select trim all strings after dot or trim the
specified domain names while retrieving the device hostname via SNMP.
Added the global option to allow the user not to discover a certain type of devices. Added the workspace manager to maintain the workspace, including the improved discovery
reports and topology stitching functions. Added new data such as discovered time and more context menus in the discovery report.
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10.1 Inventory Report Enhancements
Show device inventory information by sites, device groups, or device types.
Show device module information and interface information.
Import inventory information from CSV file.
Create inventory report for the whole workspace or a device group. The report format can be Excel
or CSV.
Support VSS and Stackable Switch.