Change Management

Solution Highlights

TBD Networks change management eliminates down time and establishes responsibility through a well-defined change process for network devices that includes:

• Automated, scheduled change deployment to multiple devices
• Role-based approval
• Automated rollback of changes to known safe states
• Complete change audits
• Assured compliance with policies and regulations

Benefits

• Faster service roll-out: Reconfiguring large sets of devices in a synchronized and structured way cuts the time for rolling out new services and supporting new applications.

• Compliance: Documenting compliance with policies and regulations is greatly simplified with every configuration change logged and past states of the networked fully documented.

• Downtime elimination: Systematic roll-outs reduce pilot errors and automated roll-back makes it possible to return hundreds of devices to a valid state within seconds.

• Efficient management: The main goal of management is to maintain control, speed, and eliminate errors. With TBD products and solutions, efficiently managing a network is possible with existing teams and resources.

Key Functions

• Multi-device configuration: Configuration changes can be rolled out to groups of devices in a structured way that allows the deployment of identical configurations as well as group or device overrides.

• Scheduling of changes: Approved changes can be scheduled for deployment during off-hours and maintenance windows.

• Roll-back: Individual devices or complete networks can be rolled back to earlier configuration states.

• Change control: Changes to device configurations are automatically captured and archived in audited form.

• Image roll-out and roll-back: Network devices are automatically updated to more recent operating system versions on a predetermined schedule.