Visibility, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation of network issues are common challenges for day-to-day network operations. With the legacy networking operation tools, these tasks are manual, time consuming, and reactive. They require network operators to have years of experience, extensive domain expertise, and the ability to correlate different events in complex IT environments to prevent or fix issues while upholding the infrastructure uptime with minimum disruption. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (formerly Nexus Insights) aims to simplify and automate these operation tasks.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) is an application that gives you the ability to monitor, analyze, troubleshoot and assure the networks in real time. It helps identify anomalies, provide root-cause analysis, plan capacity, manage change, and accelerate troubleshooting. By tracking historical context, collecting and processing hardware and software telemetry data, and correlating your designs with Cisco best practices, you can get excellent visibility and awareness of issues affecting your environment and take corrective actions.
It also includes network assurance capabilities that were formerly provided by the Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE) and enables you to continuously analyze and verify that the network state is consistent with intent. It ensures that network policies are compliant with business rules, validate network changes before deploying them, and determine network impact due to changes between any two points in time. You can perform natural language queries to gain in-depth connectivity knowledge of the network, of what policies enable which network elements, and of the relationships between communication and virtual resources in real time.
