Unifying NetOps with the Right Software for Network Management

As your network, architecture, and operations continue to evolve at a rapid pace, your NetOps teams are under intense pressure. Your network is fundamental to digital transformation and strategic initiatives, and maintaining system health is crucial for optimizing performance and service levels.

This pressure is most likely compounded by the toolset your team is using. As they race to stay current with massive changes in network architecture and requirements, NetOps teams are often left with limited and outdated technologies that can’t keep up with the volume, velocity, and variety of data involved in detecting issues, analyzing root cause, and remediating problems.

ScienceLogic offers a more effective approach. With a platform that unifies software for network automation, management, performance, configuration, change, and traffic flow analysis, ScienceLogic unifies network visibility, speeds triage and remediation, and enables your teams to deliver high-performing business services.

The challenge of legacy software for network management

When it comes to software for network management, your NetOps teams are likely flying blind. Like most organizations, NetOps teams work with a set of tools and workflows that have taken shape over many years. As technologies evolve and new issues arise, teams have adopted new point solutions that focus on specific domains or challenges. As a result, troubleshooting issues today likely consume far too much time as team members move from tool to tool analyzing symptoms and searching for root cause.

The results of this disjointed collection of software for network management are serious.

• User experiences suffer. When software for network management is inadequate, your teams will often get surprised by issues, scrambling after the fact to address issues as best they can. The lack of visibility created by an ad hoc approach to software for network management robs your team of a clear understanding of how the network impacts business services, and how those services lead to poor user experiences, customer churn, and lost revenue.
• Inefficiency is costly. When your software for network management is inadequate, NetOps will lack unified visibility and automated triage workflows. Consequently, when issues crop up, teams must wrestle with time-consuming, labor-intensive troubleshooting processes. Since these inefficient efforts typically account for 70%+ of the time it takes to restore service, costs can begin to spiral as your team strives to keep pace with growing demands.
• Agility gets stifled. When your teams spend most of their time just maintaining the status quo, they become ill-equipped to adapt when market opportunities, business threats, or strategic initiatives require rapid change and adaptation.

ScienceLogic: unified software for network management

The ScienceLogic AI Platform empowers IT operations, frees up IT talent, accelerates innovation, and drives business outcomes.

Offering unified software for network management, SL1, part of the ScienceLogic AI platform, delivers the advanced capabilities your NetOps team requires. SL1 monitors every layer in your complex IT estate, delivering complete service visibility and unified views across compute, storage, networks, applications, and more. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)-driven insights help to automate root cause analysis, and IT workflow automation maximizes AIOps to automate routine operational tasks and remediation workflows.

ScienceLogic’s SL1 enables your NetOps teams to:

• See everything. SL1 automatically establishes a comprehensive, real-time operational data lake that provides a standardized view and central location for all network data. SL1 discovers, maps, and monitors all network components, provides contextual insights into Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, as well as topological relationships and dependencies between applications, devices, and more.
• Contextualize data. Once data is captured and normalized, NetOps teams can model and view the entire network from a service context. When issues arise, this helps teams to prioritize work based on affected services and the potential impact on customers.
• Automate action. By providing a clear understanding of what’s happening in the network, SL1 enables NetOps to automate fast action in response. The platform offers an extensive library of pre-built automations, featuring more than 350 triage best practices and 185 remediation actions in addition to pre-built activities. A low-code authoring environment lets teams easily customize and automate complex operational workflows.

Benefits of network management with SL1

SL1’s unified software for network management offers NetOps teams several remarkable benefits.

Eliminate performance visibility gaps 
Complex networks often have large gaps in visibility that result in higher costs and poor customer experiences. SL1 consolidates infrastructure monitoring tools to fill these gaps with full-service visibility. NetOps teams can monitor real-time availability, health, configuration, risk, capacity, and utilization for any network technology or vendor.

Speed root cause analysis by managing network configuration change
The vast majority of network outages are caused by change. SL1 minimizes the risk of outages with early change detection and correlation. NetOps teams can unify changes in performance data, and correlate configuration changes with performance alerts to avoid downtime. Teams can also understand the impact of change on services and users and diagnose root cause faster by identifying changes related to degraded performance.

Why ScienceLogic?

ScienceLogic is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world to empower automated IT operations, drive innovation, and achieve better business outcomes. Our platform monitors your digital footprint wherever it resides, providing deeper visibility across clouds and on-premises data centers to improve the availability of business services.

With ScienceLogic, you can:

• See everything: ScienceLogic lets IT teams see everything from one location. With in-depth operational support for traditional data centers, hyperscalers, and cloud-native services, ScienceLogic brings data together from infrastructure throughout your organization.
• Avoid disruption and outages: IT teams gain real-time visibility into the impact of IT infrastructure on different services, helping to speed diagnosis and reduce MTTR (mean time to repair).
• Prioritize work: By correlating events and anomalies within a business service context, ScienceLogic helps teams accelerate analysis of service impact and root cause and determine how to prioritize efforts to minimize impact on end users.
• Automate processes: IT teams can easily automate routine processes and IT workflows using a library of best practice triage and remediation steps.
• Scale easily: ScienceLogic’s AI Platform grows with the business to support IT needs today and tomorrow.
• Integrate solutions: Out-of-the-box integrations help ITOps teams to onboard technologies faster.