I am pleased to announce the availability of Network Automation 6.7. This version is available via the Infoblox Support portal and is now available via the Autoupdate server to existing customers.
This release consists of a number of new features, including:
- Path Analysis (NetMRI/ACM/SDC) – From a source & destination IP address, the devices on the path are identified & shown in topology view
- Looks up directly connected sources
- Based on routing tables, finds 2 network paths by default, up to 10 redundant paths, from a source to a destination
- Draws a topology of devices on a path which can be exported to Visio, and/or added into a SDC Workbook
- For SDC, this process ensures that service continuity is maintained whenever a routing failover occurs
- For ACM/NetMRI this enables an on demand view of the state of the network between devices or end hosts
- FW rule and ACL Object Management (SDC) – A single UI action to reuse & provision any object across platforms
- Inconsistencies can arise when changes are made across different vendor management solutions, (or even different types of devices from same vendor)
- Objects can be translated within the same vendor family, e.g. Translate a Cisco IOS object to its Cisco Nexus equivalent
- And this works across vendors; for example, Translate a Fortinet Firewall object to a Juniper/NetScreen Firewall object
- Ensuring that changes are implemented consistently across devices
- SNMP Enhancements
- SNMP v1, v2, and v3 credentials can be managed independently
- Ensures management with different SNMP credentials when networks contain differing security postures
- IE 10 browser support