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Device Expert

Network Configuration Management

Device Expert is a change, configuration & compliance management solution for your network devices.
  • Automated configuration backup for business continuity
  • Real-time configuration change tracking & management
  • Checking configurations for compliance to policies & standards
  • Automation of device configuration tasks
Success Stories
"Ability to create & push configurations at will saves us a great deal of time" - Kevin Spies, LightYear Network Solutions, LLC » Download Free Edition | 30-Day Trial

What is DeviceExpert?

DeviceExpert is a web-based, multi vendor network configuration, change and compliance management (NCCCM) solution for switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices. A trusted solution used by thousands of network administrators around the world, DeviceExpert helps administrators to take total control of the entire life cycle of device configuration management.

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What problems does it solve?

  • Analysis by IT experts have revealed that the commonest cause for most Network outages is faulty configuration changes. In IT enterprises, network administrators manage a large number of network devices and quite often they need to carry out unplanned configuration changes. As configuration changes have to be made almost continuously, administrators are struggling to keep track of the changes done to the configurations. In the face of network outages, it becomes difficult to troubleshoot. DeviceExpert helps maintain versions of device configurations in a secure, centralized repository and manage them from a single interface.
  • Network devices are the crucial components of the enterprise and any unauthorized configuration change could wreak havoc on the network. Even when genuine configuration changes are done, the security professionals are required to ensure that the changes do not create any impact on the network security. DeviceExpert helps the network security professionals to take total control of the configuration changes.
  • With increasing security threats to mission-critical network resources and serious legal consequences of information mis-management, IT managers everywhere are required not just to follow standard practices, internal security policies, stringent Government regulations and industrial guidelines, but also demonstrate that the policies are enforced and network devices remain compliant to the policies defined. DeviceExpert precisely helps in achieving this with ease.
  • Automation is the buzzword in IT operations nowadays. IT Managers are always be on the look out for automating repetitive and time consuming tasks in order to reduce operations cost and improve productivity. DeviceExpert helps automate all configuration tasks and helps improve productivity.

What features does it offer?

Configuration Management
  • Multi-vendor configuration for switches, routers, firewalls and other devices
  • Discovery and manual addition of network devices
  • Encrypted storage of device configuration in database
  • Contextual, side-by-side comparison of altered configuration
  • Role-based Access Control
  • Firmware Upgrade / OS Images Transfer
  • Scheduling Configuration Tasks

Change Management
  • Real-time configuration tracking and effective change management policies
  • Quick restoration to trusted configurations through a few simple steps

Compliance & Automation
  • Provision for examining configurations for compliance to a defined set of internal / external policies and standards
  • Templates for commonly used configurations
  • Automation of device configuration tasks

Audit, Reports & Miscellaneous
  • Detailed audit records capturing 'who', 'what' and 'when' of configuration changes
  • Detailed reports on Inventory, configuration changes, compliances
  • Integration with Active Directory, LDAP & RADIUS
  • Provision for searching devices and configuration
  • User friendly, web-based user interface
  • Disaster recovery tools

What platforms/vendors/technologies does it support?

Platforms: Windows and Linux
Vendors: Cisco, HP, Nortel, Juniper, Force10, 3Com, D-link, Foundry, Dell, Aruba, Extreme, ADTRAN, Enterasys, Huawei, Blue Coat, Proxim, NetScreen, NETGEAR, FortiNet, Alaxala, Brocade, Radware

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DeviceExpert Documents

Help Documents  
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White Paper  
Provides an industry perspective of why a Network Change and Configuration Management solution is required
Case Studies  
Explain how DeviceExpert helped achieve the goals and requirements of enterprises
Other Literature:  
Provide a high-level view about DeviceExpert and its uses.
Product Info:  
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ManageEngine DeviceExpert Training

The primary objective of this course is to enable you to effectively manage the configurations of your network devices such as switches, routers, firewalls and others with ease using DeviceExpert. The duration of the course is two days, with a seven-hour session each day. The duration can be extended subject to consultation and implementation needs if any.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course you will be able to optimally use DeviceExpert to:
  • Retrieve and maintain versions of all your device configurations
  • View, compare, edit and upload configurations from a centralized web-interfac
  • Monitor configuration changes in real-time and generate notifications
  • Prevent unauthorized changes and approve genuine changes
  • Define standard practices and policies and automatically examine configurations for compliance
  • Generate reports on compliance status
  • Automate all device configuration tasks
  • Get complete record of 'who', 'what' and 'when' of configuration changes

Who Should Attend

IT Managers looking to
  • reduce network outages occurring due to faulty configuration changes,
  • ensure that configurations comply to a defined set of standard practices, polices & Government regulations
  • automate device configuration tasks to reduce operation costs

Network Administrators / Engineers looking to
  • maintain versions of device configurations in a secure, centralized repository and manage them from a single interface
  • monitor configuration changes in real-time
  • automate time-consuming, repetitive configuration tasks
  • carry out configuration changes to large number of devices with precision and ease

Network Security Professionals looking to
  • ensure that their network devices remain perfectly secure
  • prevent unauthorized configuration changes
  • keep track of 'who', 'what' and 'when' of configuration changes
  • ensure that configurations comply to the security policies of the enterprise

Course Agenda

Introduction
  • Network Configuration Management - Challenges
  • DeviceExpert - A Pragmatic Solution
  • What you can do with DeviceExpert
  • Features
  • Benefits
  • Supported Device Models

Installation & Basic Settings
  • Supported OS
  • Minimum Hardware Requirements
  • Supported Browsers
  • Components of DeviceExpert
  • Installation Procedure
  • Installation as server startup service
  • Ports used by DeviceExpert
  • Mandatory Settings

Getting Started
  • Connecting Web-Interface
  • Arrangement of Web Interface

Setting up Inventory
  • Ways of Adding Devices
    • Discovery
    • Manual Addition
    • Importing Devices
  • Providing Credentials
    • Choosing Protocols
    • Verifying Credentials
  • Creating Credential Profiles
  • Grouping Devices

Performing Configuration Operations
  • Backing up configuration
  • Viewing Device Details
    • Hardware Details
    • Basic Device Properties
  • Viewing Device Configuration
  • Creating Baselines
  • Editing Configuration
  • Creating Drafts
  • Uploading Configuration
    • Uploading Full Device Configuration
    • Uploading Select Lines
    • Uploading a Snippet
    • Uploading Configuration to Multiple Devices
  • Comparing Configuration Versions

Performing Actions on Devices
  • Executing 'show' commands
  • Launching telnet connection
Setting up Change Detection
  • Detecting configuration changes
    • Real-time change detection
    • Scheduled Change detection
  • Capturing information on 'who changed' the configuration

Enabling Change Management
  • Managing Configuration Changes
  • Defining Change Management Rules
  • Notifications on configuration changes

Compliance Management
  • Defining Compliance Policies
  • Creating Compliance Rules
  • Running Compliance Check
  • Generating Compliance Reports

Role-based Access Control
  • Defining roles for users
    • Administrator
    • Power User
    • Operator
  • Assigning Devices to Power Users & Operators
  • Configuration upload approval

Audit & Reports
  • Operation Audit
    • Details captured by the trails
    • Viewing the audit records
  • Schedule Audit
  • Generating Reports
    • Network Reports
    • Configuration Reports
    • User Reports
    • Policy Compliance Reports
  • Reports in different formats

Automating Configuration Tasks
  • Automation through scripts & templates
  • Creating Templates
  • Creating Scripts
  • Schedules
    • Creating scheduled tasks for
      • Configuration Backup
      • Report Generation and
      • Compliance Check
  • Audit of scheduled tasks
  • Managing Schedules

Setting up Disaster Recovery
  • Disaster Recovery Options
    • Backing up the device configuration files
    • Backing up the entire database
  • Restoring backed up data

Miscellaneous Operations & Tools
  • Searching Devices
  • Searching Configuration
  • Exporting Configuration Files
  • Database Administration

Use-Cases
Troubleshooting Tips
Best Practices
Maintenance
  • Upgrade Process
  • Support Process
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Customers Testimonials

How DeviceExpert helped Larry Ware to manage remote device configurations ...

"AdventNet DeviceExpert has proven a very useful tool to help Federal Signal, Inc. manage multiple vendors equipment across multiple geographic locations. It has allowed us to effectively manage remote device configurations and implement effective change control for network infrastructure."

Larry Ware , Federal Signal Global Network Boffin
Federal Signal

Customers

DeviceExpert counts many of the world's leading enterprises as key customers. The following are some of the companies / institutions who have turned to DeviceExpert to solve some of their IT infrastructure challenges and problems.

  • Adventist Health
  • Affymetrix GeneChip® technology
  • American Eagle Federal Credit Union
  • API SA
  • Associated Network Partners, Inc. (ANPI)
  • ATMEL Corporation
  • Avid Solutions
  • AWD Moneyextra
  • Banker's Dashboard
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Baytex Energy Trust
  • Boeing Company
  • Boroo Gold Co Ltd
  • Burns, White & Hickton
  • Campbell Alliance
  • Canadian Heritage
  • Chevron Federal Credit Union
  • Circle Company Associates, Inc.
  • CIS Data Systems
  • City of Lynnwood
  • Commonwealth Bank & Trust Company
  • Community Health Plan of Washington
  • Consulting Concepts & Management, LLC
  • Consumer Credit Counseling Service
  • Covansys India
  • DBSi
  • DHL Global Mail
  • Engineering Systems Solutions, Inc
  • EYME Technologies
  • F1 Honda Racing Team
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