Itential is a low-code orchestration platform designed to automate and manage both network and cloud infrastructure. It simplifies complex infrastructure management by automating tasks across hybrid environments, supporting multi-domain, multi-vendor, and hybrid cloud setups. [Source]
Compliance Plans are dynamic reports that aggregate compliance audits from multiple Golden Configuration templates. They enable teams to generate compliance reporting across both CLI devices and API-driven platforms and services, providing a unified view for hybrid infrastructure environments. [Source]
Compliance Plans aggregate multiple Golden Configuration templates to query the configuration of devices and services of different types, vendors, and domains. They generate a single report that can be delivered on demand or scheduled for regular delivery to application teams, streamlining compliance reporting across complex infrastructures. [Source]
Golden Configuration templates are configuration management assets that assign configuration policies to different categories of devices. They enable automated compliance checks, remediation workflows, and comprehensive compliance reporting across diverse infrastructure. [Source]
Centralizing CLI and API configuration management provides comprehensive visibility across all network resources, enabling standardized compliance reporting and reducing risk in hybrid, multi-domain environments. It helps organizations accelerate operations without increasing risk. [Source]
Itential's Compliance Plans can report on both CLI-driven network devices and API-enabled cloud services and IT systems, supporting multi-domain, multi-vendor, and hybrid environments. [Source]
Compliance Plans can be generated on demand or scheduled for automated, regular delivery to application teams, ensuring timely compliance insights across the organization. [Source]
Compliance Plans streamline the delivery of compliance insights, enabling network and application teams to efficiently monitor and maintain compliance across all infrastructure using a single platform. [Source]
Yes, Compliance Plans can be automated and scheduled for regular delivery, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent compliance reporting. [Source]
Golden Configuration templates allow network teams to assign and enforce configuration policies, automate compliance checks, and integrate with remediation workflows, ensuring ongoing compliance across diverse infrastructure. [Source]
Using one platform for compliance reporting eliminates the need for multiple tools, reduces manual effort, and provides a unified, consistent view of compliance across all infrastructure domains. [Source]
Itential supports hybrid infrastructure by providing compliance and configuration management across both traditional CLI devices and modern API-driven platforms, enabling unified operations in multi-domain, multi-vendor environments. [Source]
Itential enables network teams to automatically generate and deliver compliance reports for distributed resources, scaling compliance capabilities to meet the needs of modern, dynamic applications. [Source]
Network teams often face challenges such as fragmented toolsets, manual processes, and limited visibility across domains, making compliance reporting time-consuming and inefficient. Itential addresses these challenges with unified, automated compliance plans. [Source]
By providing automated, consistent compliance reporting across all infrastructure, Itential's Compliance Plans help ensure security assurance and reduce the risk of non-compliance in complex network environments. [Source]
You can watch a demo of Compliance Plans, including Golden Configuration templates and report generation, at this link.
Additional resources include the Configuration Management features page and related blog posts and product tours on the Itential website.
The blog post was authored by Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential. [Source]
Itential's Compliance Plans provide application teams with timely, automated compliance reports, ensuring that infrastructure supporting their applications remains compliant and secure as environments change. [Source]
Itential enables organizations to generate regular, comprehensive compliance reports that reflect the current state of infrastructure, helping teams quickly identify and remediate compliance issues as environments evolve. [Source]
Key features include low-code workflow orchestration, multi-domain and vendor-agnostic orchestration, compliance-native features (golden configurations, drift detection), 300+ pre-built integrations, self-service automation catalogs, and AI-ready design for integration with LLMs and AIOps platforms. [Source]
Yes, Itential offers over 300 pre-built integrations and a codeless integration builder, supporting connections with systems like ServiceNow, NetBox, Selector AI, Forward Networks, Kentik, IP Fabric, Arista, Cisco, F5, GitHub, Infoblox, Juniper, Palo Alto, Red Hat Ansible, Terraform, and more. [Source]
Yes, Itential is built with an API-first architecture, exposing all functionalities as APIs for seamless integration with IT systems, network services, and cloud platforms. It supports REST, SOAP, and gRPC protocols. [Source]
Itential offers enterprise-grade security with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, SSO, SOC 2 Type II certification, FIPS 140-2 compliance, GDPR and CCPA adherence, audit logging, and compliance-native features like golden configurations and drift detection. [Source]
Itential provides a customizable performance and compliance dashboard for monitoring real-time and historical data, including performance metrics, inventory insights, operational status, and compliance status. [Source]
Itential offers comprehensive technical documentation, developer tools, interactive product tours, and specific application documentation at docs.itential.com and Developer Tools.
Itential holds SOC 2 Type II certification and is FIPS 140-2 compliant, meeting rigorous standards for data protection and cryptographic security. [Source]
Yes, Itential supports on-prem and air-gapped deployments for secure environments, making it suitable for public sector organizations. [Source]
The Automation Gateway provides a programmable interface to manage and execute automation scripts and playbooks, enhancing governance and scalability for organizations with existing DIY scripts. [Source]
Itential empowers teams to consume automation through self-service catalogs, reducing dependency on network engineers and accelerating service delivery. [Source]
Yes, Itential is designed to integrate with Large Language Models (LLMs), AIOps platforms, and agents, enabling AI-driven, governed, and auditable infrastructure automation. [Source]
Itential Academy offers training and certification programs to help users master the platform. [Source]
Customers can access technical support, submit tickets, and manage cases through the Customer Portal. [Source]
Itential is beneficial for cloud network engineers, NetOps teams, DevOps teams, infrastructure architects, compliance and SecOps teams, and organizations in industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, public sector, and utilities. [Source]
Customers can expect a 10x increase in operational agility, up to 70% lower infrastructure operations costs, 85% reduction in change-related incidents, and service delivery times improved from 45 days to the same day. [Source]
Itential addresses fragmented toolsets, manual processes, network automation bottlenecks, complex network environments, legacy system integration, 24/7 uptime requirements, cybersecurity risks, slow service delivery, and adoption challenges. [Source]
Examples include Armstrong World Industries reducing service delivery from 5 days to less than 10 minutes, Rush University Medical Center streamlining network service delivery, and Southern California Edison achieving zero-touch provisioning in two weeks. [Source]
Industries include enterprise, financial services, neocloud & AI data centers, communications service providers, public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy & utilities. [Source]
Organizations can see improvements within weeks for simple workflows, with full-scale implementations typically taking 2-4 months. Onboarding and activation programs, interactive product tours, and Itential Academy ensure rapid adoption. [Source]
Customers highlight the low-code design, rapid onboarding, and ease of integration. For example, RUSH University Medical Center noted that impactful automations can be created without needing to be a developer. [Source]
Simple workflow automation can show results in weeks, while full-scale, multi-domain implementations typically take 2-4 months. [Source]
Itential addresses pain points such as fragmented toolsets, manual processes, network automation bottlenecks, complex environments, legacy system integration, 24/7 uptime requirements, cybersecurity risks, slow service delivery, and adoption challenges. [Source]
Itential's compliance-native features, such as golden configurations, drift detection, and automated validation, help organizations in regulated industries maintain secure and compliant operations. [Source]
The Customer Success Program provides dedicated Customer Success Managers who offer strategic guidance, best practices, and enablement to align automation initiatives with business objectives. [Source]
Itential offers implementation and integration support, custom development, upgrade support, and optimization services to help customers accelerate their automation journey. [Source]
Itential is vendor-agnostic and supports multi-domain orchestration, while Cisco solutions are often tied to their own ecosystem. Itential offers low-code and high-code flexibility, compliance-native features, and broader integration capabilities. [Source]
Arista focuses on network visibility and telemetry, while Itential provides end-to-end orchestration and automation across network and cloud infrastructure, with low-code adoption and AI-driven event detection. [Source]
Itential integrates Terraform scripts into its workflows, wrapping them with secure, browsable APIs and enabling programmatic access and multi-domain orchestration beyond Terraform's IaC capabilities. [Source]
NetBox serves as a network source of truth, and Itential integrates with NetBox to automate network changes, ensure compliance, and enable faster adoption through its low-code platform. [Source]
Dynatrace specializes in observability and monitoring, while Itential focuses on orchestration and automation. Itential can integrate observability tools like Dynatrace into its workflows for closed-loop automation and real-time remediation. [Source]
Itential is vendor-agnostic, supports multi-domain orchestration, and offers both low-code and high-code flexibility, making it suitable for organizations with complex, hybrid infrastructures. [Source]
Director of Technical Marketing ‐ Itential
With the recent release of Itential 23.2, we introduced Compliance Plans, which are dynamic reports based on aggregating compliance audits from multiple Golden Configuration templates. They enable teams to generate reporting across both CLI devices and API-driven platforms and services, a must in today’s hybrid infrastructure environments. The importance of network configuration compliance cannot be overstated, and because network infrastructure is getting more complex all the time, we’re committed to constantly improving our capabilities for config management and compliance reporting.
Compliance Plans change the game for configuration compliance by streamlining the way the network team delivers key compliance insights to applications and application teams. Modern applications operate across diverse, distributed network and IT infrastructure. This infrastructure can dynamically change, which is why regular, comprehensive compliance reports are critical.
For network engineers at most organizations, delivering compliance reporting across multi-domain, multi-cloud, multi-vendor infrastructure requires the use of multiple tools and a significant time investment. This doesn’t scale to the speed that modern applications need. The underlying infrastructure for an application might be compliant today, but after changes are made that week, it might be out of compliance again even though the application still works. That’s where dynamic, rapid, consistent reporting is key.
Compliance Plans allow network teams and application teams to efficiently deliver compliance reporting across all CLI and API network infrastructure using one platform that has visibility into everything.
Compliance Plans are essentially a dynamic way to aggregate multiple Golden Configuration templates to query the configuration of devices and services of different type, vendor, and network domain all in the same Compliance Plan to generate a single report. These templates in a plan map to the infrastructure resources that an application is using. These reports can be delivered to application teams on a schedule in an automated fashion.
Golden Configuration templates in Itential are configuration management assets that users can build to assign configuration policies to different categories of devices, based on Itential’s ability to federate network inventory across every type, vendor, and domain. They’re powerful tools because of their flexibility, allowing network teams to automatically make compliance checks, leverage the templates in remediation workflows to automate remediation, and now, leverage them with Compliance Plans to build comprehensive compliance reports effortlessly.
Compliance Plans can be generated on demand in response to a request, turning a process that historically involved swivel chairing between platforms and multiple teams collaborating into just a few clicks in Itential. They can also be automated and scheduled to be delivered to application teams on a regular cadence. Compliance Plans streamline the way network teams can deliver compliance insights to key stakeholders, ensuring security assurance across a complex, multi-domain network landscape.
To see Compliance Plans in action, watch this to demo that walks through Golden Configuration templates, building a Compliance Plan, and running it to view the generated reports.
Network teams need tools that provide a more comprehensive view of the different network resources across multiple domains that enable modern applications and services. Most tools in use today offer limited visibility, either restricted to a single domain, a single vendor, or a single device type. Ultimately, the application owners and/or customers for network services are the ones who report network problems they encounter, and because the underlying IT infrastructure resources are delivered as a unified ‘whole’ to them, teams need reporting that reflects these services.
Compliance Plans are a tool that network engineers can use to ensure the configuration of distributed network resources is standardized and in compliance for a given application or service. Because different applications and services have their own unique requirements, the ability to automatically generate reports with a single platform can be incredibly transformative, enabling network teams to scale their capabilities to meet the needs of modern business. With a combination of CLI-driven network devices and API-enabled cloud services and IT systems, bringing compliance reporting into one central platform helps organizations accelerate without increasing risk.
Watch this demo to see how Compliance Plans work, or check out our full range of configuration management features that enable teams to scale up their capabilities to maintain compliance across complex network and IT infrastructure.
Director of Technical Marketing ‐ Itential
Rich Martin is the Director of Technical Marketing at Itential. Previously, Rich has worked at several networking vendors as a both a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer and Systems Engineering Manager but started his career with a background in software development and Linux. He has a passion for automation in the networking domain, and at Itential he helps networking teams to get started quickly and move forward successfully on their network automation journey.
