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AI & AIOps

MCP 101: Understanding the Model Context Protocol

What is MCP? MCP is an open protocol introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 that standardizes how AI systems connect to external tools and data sources. Instead of every AI framework requiring custom integration code, MCP provides a common language that any compatible AI can use to interact with any MCP-enabled tool. The protocol operates

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AI & AIOps

Context as the New Currency: Designing Effective MCP Servers for AI

When I first started dabbling with large language models (LLMs), my primary goal was straightforward: utilize the LLMs as the tool they are, ask precise questions, extract specific knowledge, and receive direct answers. Simple, right? But as I delved deeper, my understanding began a significant shift. I realized the immense, underlying importance of context management,

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AI-Driven Golden Configuration Trees: End Compliance Fire Drills, Forever

Maintaining infrastructure compliance shouldn’t feel like cramming for an exam, yet most enterprises still stumble through audit season armed with outdated spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and last-minute heroics. Regulatory frameworks such as NIST CSF, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOX demand provable, continuous control across every device and environment. But manual reviews and fragmented documentation

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Itential Validated Designs: Developer Architecture

Itential Validated Designs Developer Architecture Validated Designs Itential Validated Designs: Developer Architecture Overview A Developer Architecture (DA) is an Itential architecture where all of the components are installed as singletons and can not gracefully tolerate failures. This architecture is not recommended for production environments and testing environments that require strict uptimes and redundancies. This architecture

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Itential Validated Designs: Active/Standby Architecture

Itential Validated Designs Active/Standby Architecture Validated Designs Itential Validated Designs: Active/Standby Architecture Overview An Active/Standby Architecture (ASA) is an Itential architecture where all of the components are redundant and can gracefully tolerate at least 1 catastrophic failure and also provides a redundancy for the primary data center. This architecture is the recommended architecture for production

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Itential Validated Designs: Highly Available Architecture

Itential Validated Designs Highly Available Architecture Validated Designs Itential Validated Designs: Highly Available Architecture Overview A Highly Available Architecture (HA2) is an Itential architecture where all of the components are redundant and can gracefully tolerate at least 1 catastrophic failure. This architecture is the recommended architecture for production environments and testing environments. The IAP application

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Itential Validated Designs

Itential Validated Designs Proven Architectures & Tested Patterns for Implementing Itential’s Product Portfolio at Scale Read the Technical Documentation Overview Itential Validated Designs provide customers with tested and documented designs that can be used to deploy and operate Itential technology in development, staging, and production environments. These design documents provide proven architectures and tested patterns,

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Automations

Cisco ASA Device – Example Use Cases – Managed by CLI in IAG

The integration of Itential and Cisco ASA enables network teams to utilize its CLI to build automations that can include common tasks for managing ACL rules and performing software upgrades.

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