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What seems like one small configuration change can end up having an unexpectedly large impact on your network. However, by using the right network automatic tool, you can streamline single or multiple configuration changes, and help ensure successful results.
SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools is a network configuration automation solution designed to help you efficiently apply bulk changes to devices across your system. Kiwi CatTools includes a built-in TFTP server, making it easier to roll back previous configurations.
Any change to a configuration file, no matter how small, creates a potential for serious error. Network outages, improper device function, and vulnerability issues can often be traced back to configuration changes, which is why it’s critical to automate configuration backups for networked devices.
Kiwi CatTools is built to make it simple to back up and restore configurations from network devices, including firewalls, routers, switches, and more. The tool also allows you to customize when your backups run, so you can better ensure maximum convenience and security.
As networks grow in size and complexity, IT professionals need tools designed to allow them to manage systems efficiently and effectively. Applying configuration changes consistently and in bulk can help you ensure devices are secure. Kiwi CatTools can help you do this by automating reporting with auditing functions. Out of the box, Kiwi CatTools can be scheduled to email key stakeholders various reports and statistics as text or HTML files.
The size of modern networks means without a robust monitoring solution, network admins are ill-equipped to detect when unauthorized configuration changes are made across their systems.
However, by using network automation tools like Kiwi CatTools, you can more easily monitor devices for unexpected alterations, and can benefit from automatic email alerts when a change is detected, so you can quickly resolve unwanted changes. This can also help you track the users making unauthorized device configuration changes, hardening your network.
Network automation refers to the use of technology and machine learning to automate processes like network configuration, management, testing, and operation for virtual and physical devices.
Many tasks and functions can benefit from network automation. Network configuration automation, for instance, can be used to help ensure new devices automatically receive the right security and configuration policies the moment they’re connected to the network to better prevent network misconfigurations potentially leading to serious security vulnerabilities.
Network automation tools are built to allow you to automatically change the configurations of multiple network devices, saving you time.
For example, Kiwi CatTools includes several preset automated operations called activities. These can allow you to more efficiently deploy configuration changes and other network management operations to a range of different networked device types from leading manufacturers.
The Device.CLI.Modify Config activity in particular enables you to modify the configuration of one or more networked devices. Once the activity is activated, Kiwi CatTools is designed to log in to relevant devices and perform configuration changes, making note of any errors detected during the deployment process. Device.CLI.Modify Config activity options also allow you to schedule routine tasks and select specifications for how device output is recorded. The network automation tools included in Kiwi CatTools also include activities dedicated to running configuration backups, side-by-side configuration change comparisons between devices, and other informative processes.
Network automation can improve the reliability of your services by minimizing inconsistencies and errors tending to arise as part of manual configuration processes. Manual errors can lead to hard-to-detect problems with longer troubleshoot periods.
Network automation can also help network admins be more effective and efficient by helping manage routine and highly repeatable tasks with greater speed and accuracy than can be accomplished manually. By helping free up time, automation can allow you to work on more critical tasks.
Auditing and reporting is another area where automation can prove useful for management configurations. Rather than manually collecting, organizing, analyzing, summarizing, and graphing individual data records, automated reporting solutions are built to help you detect inconsistencies or problems with significantly greater speed and efficiency.
Network automation software solutions can help to make vast, increasingly complex network systems more manageable. When automated tools handle many of the more routine aspects of network management, IT teams can have more time to attend to pressing tickets, security alerts, and other tasks.
Network automation tools can also help make it possible to perform certain network management processes and tasks more frequently, helping minimize the potential for downtime or failure. Automated network management software can also help you ensure configurations are consistently applied across your systems—even as you scale—with minimal human interaction required. Automated solutions are essential for modern businesses to stay competitive and maximize the efficiency of their operations.
Kiwi CatTools offers automated configuration management for network devices like firewalls, routers, and switches. Like many other SolarWinds products, Kiwi CatTools allows you to customize how the tool works, such as scheduling device configuration backups to run whenever is convenient or required for the needs of your department, using Telnet or SSH to send commands to multiple devices simultaneously, and simultaneously updating passwords for multiple network devices.
In addition to automatic backups, Kiwi CatTools can copy the configuration parameters currently running on the device into a local text file for extra security. Kiwi CatTools also enables admins to deploy bulk configuration changes to multiple devices and then compare the new configuration to what had been applied previously. These features can help you more easily ensure the deployed changes were successful, and if the changes aren’t successful, Kiwi CatTools makes it easier to restore your devices to a previous configuration. In addition, the ability to compare before-and-after configurations, including startup and running configurations, can help provide valuable insights about potentially threatening security misconfigurations.
Kiwi CatTools includes native support for IPv4 and IPv6 network devices from multiple vendors, including Cisco, HP, Huawei, and others to help streamline many network administration and management responsibilities, view differences in change alert settings, and perform backup management in a centralized location, regardless of which manufacturer made the devices on your network.
Network automation refers to the use of technology and machine learning to automate processes like network configuration, management, testing, and operation for virtual and physical devices.
Many tasks and functions can benefit from network automation. Network configuration automation, for instance, can be used to help ensure new devices automatically receive the right security and configuration policies the moment they’re connected to the network to better prevent network misconfigurations potentially leading to serious security vulnerabilities.
Network automation tools are built to allow you to automatically change the configurations of multiple network devices, saving you time.
For example, Kiwi CatTools includes several preset automated operations called activities. These can allow you to more efficiently deploy configuration changes and other network management operations to a range of different networked device types from leading manufacturers.
The Device.CLI.Modify Config activity in particular enables you to modify the configuration of one or more networked devices. Once the activity is activated, Kiwi CatTools is designed to log in to relevant devices and perform configuration changes, making note of any errors detected during the deployment process. Device.CLI.Modify Config activity options also allow you to schedule routine tasks and select specifications for how device output is recorded. The network automation tools included in Kiwi CatTools also include activities dedicated to running configuration backups, side-by-side configuration change comparisons between devices, and other informative processes.
Network automation can improve the reliability of your services by minimizing inconsistencies and errors tending to arise as part of manual configuration processes. Manual errors can lead to hard-to-detect problems with longer troubleshoot periods.
Network automation can also help network admins be more effective and efficient by helping manage routine and highly repeatable tasks with greater speed and accuracy than can be accomplished manually. By helping free up time, automation can allow you to work on more critical tasks.
Auditing and reporting is another area where automation can prove useful for management configurations. Rather than manually collecting, organizing, analyzing, summarizing, and graphing individual data records, automated reporting solutions are built to help you detect inconsistencies or problems with significantly greater speed and efficiency.
Network automation software solutions can help to make vast, increasingly complex network systems more manageable. When automated tools handle many of the more routine aspects of network management, IT teams can have more time to attend to pressing tickets, security alerts, and other tasks.
Network automation tools can also help make it possible to perform certain network management processes and tasks more frequently, helping minimize the potential for downtime or failure. Automated network management software can also help you ensure configurations are consistently applied across your systems—even as you scale—with minimal human interaction required. Automated solutions are essential for modern businesses to stay competitive and maximize the efficiency of their operations.
Kiwi CatTools offers automated configuration management for network devices like firewalls, routers, and switches. Like many other SolarWinds products, Kiwi CatTools allows you to customize how the tool works, such as scheduling device configuration backups to run whenever is convenient or required for the needs of your department, using Telnet or SSH to send commands to multiple devices simultaneously, and simultaneously updating passwords for multiple network devices.
In addition to automatic backups, Kiwi CatTools can copy the configuration parameters currently running on the device into a local text file for extra security. Kiwi CatTools also enables admins to deploy bulk configuration changes to multiple devices and then compare the new configuration to what had been applied previously. These features can help you more easily ensure the deployed changes were successful, and if the changes aren’t successful, Kiwi CatTools makes it easier to restore your devices to a previous configuration. In addition, the ability to compare before-and-after configurations, including startup and running configurations, can help provide valuable insights about potentially threatening security misconfigurations.
Kiwi CatTools includes native support for IPv4 and IPv6 network devices from multiple vendors, including Cisco, HP, Huawei, and others to help streamline many network administration and management responsibilities, view differences in change alert settings, and perform backup management in a centralized location, regardless of which manufacturer made the devices on your network.
Kiwi CatTools
Automatically backup device configurations
Receive notifications the moment configuration changes are detected
Generate network device configuration reports
