Itential Compliance Plans are dynamic reports that aggregate compliance audits from multiple Golden Configuration templates. They enable teams to generate unified compliance reporting across both CLI devices and API-driven platforms, streamlining compliance management for hybrid infrastructure environments. Compliance Plans can be scheduled or generated on demand, delivering insights to application teams efficiently. Source
Compliance Plans allow network teams to efficiently deliver compliance reporting across all CLI and API network infrastructure using one platform. This eliminates the need for multiple tools and reduces manual effort, enabling rapid, consistent reporting that scales with modern application needs. Source
A Golden Configuration template is a configuration management asset in Itential that assigns configuration policies to different categories of devices. These templates enable automated compliance checks and remediation workflows, and are used within Compliance Plans to build comprehensive compliance reports. Source
Yes, Compliance Plans can be automated and scheduled to deliver compliance reports to application teams on a regular cadence, ensuring ongoing visibility and security assurance across complex, multi-domain networks. Source
Itential's Compliance Plans provide a unified, low-code approach to manage and enforce configuration standards across both traditional CLI-based devices and modern API-driven systems. This ensures consistent policy enforcement and reporting across all infrastructure types. Source
Compliance Plans can perform checks using regular expressions for CLI devices and JSON schema for API-driven platforms, including complex scenarios like ordered lists (e.g., ACLs). This flexibility allows teams to define and enforce detailed compliance standards. Source
Centralizing CLI and API configuration management with Compliance Plans provides a comprehensive view of network resources across multiple domains, enabling standardized compliance reporting and reducing risk. It helps organizations scale their capabilities to meet modern business needs without increasing manual effort. Source
Compliance Plans enable unified compliance reporting across diverse environments, including multiple domains, clouds, and vendors. This is essential for modern applications that operate across distributed infrastructure, ensuring consistent compliance and security. Source
Network teams can use Compliance Plans to automate compliance checks and reporting, reducing manual effort and enabling them to scale their capabilities to meet the needs of modern business and applications. Source
You can watch a demo that walks through Golden Configuration templates, building a Compliance Plan, and running it to view generated reports at this link.
Compliance Plans streamline the delivery of compliance insights to application teams, ensuring they receive regular, comprehensive reports that reflect the compliance status of the underlying infrastructure supporting their applications. Source
Dynamic compliance reporting is critical because infrastructure can change frequently, and compliance status may shift even if applications continue to function. Regular, automated reports ensure ongoing compliance and reduce risk. Source
Compliance Plans provide security assurance by enabling regular, comprehensive compliance checks and reporting across all network domains, helping organizations maintain standardized configurations and reduce vulnerabilities. Source
Compliance Plans extend Golden Configuration capabilities to handle complex scenarios such as ordered lists (e.g., ACLs), using regular expressions for CLI and JSON schema for APIs, ensuring accurate compliance checks for these configurations. Source
Compliance Plans automate the process of generating compliance reports, eliminating the need for manual 'swivel chairing' between platforms and teams. Reports can be generated with just a few clicks or scheduled for regular delivery. Source
Key benefits include unified compliance reporting, reduced manual effort, automated scheduling, comprehensive visibility across domains, and enhanced security assurance. Source
Compliance Plans provide visibility and compliance checks across both CLI-driven network devices and API-enabled cloud services and IT systems, supporting hybrid infrastructure environments. Source
By centralizing compliance reporting and automating checks across all infrastructure types, Compliance Plans enable organizations to scale their operations and accelerate delivery while maintaining standardized configurations and reducing risk. Source
You can explore the full range of configuration management features at this link.
Itential holds SOC 2 Type II Certification, FIPS 140-2 compliance, and adheres to GDPR and CCPA standards. These certifications demonstrate Itential's commitment to security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance. Source
Itential automates compliance checks, drift detection, and remediation, ensuring continuous adherence to standards like PCI, HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Every change is logged for full traceability and auditability. Source
Itential includes role-based access control (RBAC), single sign-on (SSO), and encryption for data in transit and at rest, providing robust governance and security controls. Source
Itential supports on-prem and air-gapped deployments, ensuring data remains within secure environments and enabling compliance with mandates like STIGs. Source
Yes, Itential has a responsible disclosure policy for security vulnerabilities, ensuring transparency and proactive security management. Source
Itential supports over 300 pre-built integrations, including ServiceNow, NetBox, Infoblox, GitHub, Selector AIOps, Kentik, Forward Networks, IP Fabric, Red Hat Ansible, Terraform, messaging systems like Slack and Microsoft Teams, Arista Networks, Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto. For a full list, visit the Automation Marketplace.
Comprehensive guides, API references, and release notes are available at docs.itential.com. Developer tools and API documentation can be found at Developer Tools and API Docs.
Yes, Itential offers developer tools to support automation projects. These can be accessed at Developer Tools.
Itential integrates with messaging systems like Slack and Microsoft Teams to enable collaboration and streamline automation workflows. Source
Network engineers, application teams, and organizations operating in multi-domain, multi-cloud, and multi-vendor environments benefit from Compliance Plans by achieving unified compliance reporting and reducing manual effort. Source
Organizations can expect a 10x increase in operational agility, 85% reduction in change-related incidents, 70% reduction in infrastructure operations costs, faster service delivery, and reduced time-to-value for new services. Source
Compliance Plans address fragmented automation, manual change execution, configuration drift, multi-domain complexity, inability to scale operations, lack of governance, and slow adoption of automation. Source
Itential's low-code design, 300+ pre-built integrations, and self-service catalogs enable organizations to scale operations without increasing headcount, with customers reporting 80-90% reduction in manual effort. Source
Industries served include telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, utilities, media & entertainment, biotechnology, and energy. Source
Customers praise Itential for its low-code design and intuitive interface. Uzair Khan from Rush University Medical Center highlighted the ability to create impactful automations without needing to be a developer. Armstrong saved over 21,000 hours of manual work, and a media conglomerate noted the platform's power and ease of use during a workshop. Source
Enterprise customers include Armstrong, Blackfoot Comms, Colt, Corning, Deutsche Telekom, Fiserv, Irideos, Leidos, Liberty Global, Lumen, Rush, S&P Global, Southern California Edison, Tim, and Virgin Media O2. Source
Yes, stories from Armstrong World Industries and a multinational biotech company are available, highlighting global self-service networking and accelerated service delivery. Visit the customers page for more.
Implementation typically takes 3-6 months from contract signature to production-ready platform, with initial value seen within weeks. Expansion of automation capabilities occurs over the next 6-12 months. Source
Itential offers structured onboarding and activation programs, interactive product tours, training and certification via Itential Academy, comprehensive documentation, and professional services for expert assistance. Source
Interactive product tours are available at this link, providing hands-on experience with Itential's features.
Yes, training and certification programs are available through Itential Academy. Source
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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.
