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Network Services Automation and Management Briefing
You've been tasked with creating an automation solution for network services. This problem is very different than infrastructure automation. You have to consider the customer/service relationship; the whole "service lifecycle"; and how to cleanly add, change and remove service configuration. Standard IT automation tools don't seem to solve all the problems and you're left doing expensive custom development (not to mention the support issues of such a solution). Are there tools out there which address this problem? Request this briefing to get ideas and information to help you solve your service automation problems.
Itential Automation Platform and Ansible Orchestration in an ACI Environment
This demonstration shows the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) leveraging Ansible as a device configuration orchestrator, to provision an ACI controller. The intent of the demo is to show you how IAP can use Ansible (and it's vast library of modules) as part of an operations workflow directly managing devices. The workflow provisions a new tenant into the controller, via the Ansible ACI module -- no playbook is required.
Orchestrated Service Deployment with Assurance (Itential, NSO and Netrounds)
This demonstration shows a "full stack" solution for automating service deployment and concurrently deploying probes and monitoring, to assure the service. Typical customer fulfillment processes treat service deployment and service assurance as separate steps. This solution shows that both can be done simultaneously. The advantage is that service health (or deployment failure) is known immediately. For service providers, this is key since billing typically begins after the customer accepts the service. In this solution, the service health is determined automatically. The customer can be emailed a report telling them their service is live (thus, justifying immediate billing).