Top 10 Network Automation Tools for 2024

NetBrain next-gen is one of the industry’s o-code network automation and visibility platforms specially designed to make NetOps workflows more scalable and efficient. By transforming your Troubleshooting, Change Management, and Network assessment workflows at scale, the platform reduces disruptions and costs while lowering remediation times and operational risks. It understands all of your hybrid network’s devices, its topology, real-time traffic flow and desired behaviours, and maintains those behaviours to ensure your network operations are closely aligned with your business itself.

The foundation of Next-Gen is its unique multi-dimensional live digital twin of complex hybrid networks. This not only auto-discovers device details and network topology, but also connectivity, traffic flows, and network design intents of hybrid-cloud environments. It also enables organizations to harness no-code network automation for auto-diagnosis, protected change, remediation, and assessment of the network without straining network resources. To guarantee timely analysis of network conditions, it’s updated as soon as network conditions change to ensure the success of an Intent-based automation system.

A leader in intelligence network automation, Gluware’s Intelligence Network Automation software brings a powerful layer of intelligence to help you automate complex, multi-vendor enterprise networks code-free and at scale. The platform helps companies big and small safeguard their mission-critical networks, preventing outages and enhancing security while ensuring business continuity. It can also keep multi-vendor networks in policy while enabling new features that keep pace with changing business objectives while lowering costs and reducing efficiency. 

Gluware solutions are multi-vendor, multi-platform, and multi-domain, meaning you have maximum and efficient control over your network while reducing the number of network management tools your operations teams need. Gluward also provides one of the industry’s leading intelligent network automation suites to reduce network outages and ensure 100% policy compliance and is trusted across industries from finance to pharma.

As the industry’s only cloud-native network automation tool built to support hybrid-cloud infrastructure, ltential makes it easy to Accelerate your journey from manual processes to self-serve networking. The company’s SaaS platform includes a suite of network and cloud automation products designed to support every stage of your automation journey, simplifying network management from deployment, to changes, and beyond. Meanwhile, the platform’s Automation Gateway works with all your automation scripts to allow NetOps and DevOps teams to securely organize, run, and share their library of CLI automation.

Itential provides you with all the tools you need to rapidly design and build low-code orchestration workflows for automating any use case from ticket creation to ticket closure. The platform provides a unified view for managing automation and delivering self-service network consumption for your IT teams, allowing you to respond to notifications from event streaming platforms like Kafka with closed-loop, event-driven automation. It also can automate any type of network or any type of network change with a single automation environment that is vendor and technology-agnostic while seamlessly connecting IT systems with orchestration tools and custom scripts for end-to-end network automation.

Whether you have a fully articulated network automation strategy, the BackBox platform makes it easy to automate the administration of Backups, OS updates, compliance activities and vulnerability management. Out of the box, BackBox contains over 3,000 automation pre-built by the BackBox Automation Team to help you realize value rapidly, automating tasks that solve specific problems while enabling well-defined use cases such as Backup, OS Upgrades, Compliance, and Vulnerability Management. Any of these automations in the Automation Library can also be easily customized to suit your needs using the BackBox Automation Builder – no coding required. 

When it comes to disaster recovery, BackBox ensures success by validating every single one of your backups with an intensive verification process – first when it’s created, and then again before restoring. With just a single click, device configurations and OS can be restored, even restoring to bare metal to configure a replacement device. The platform also supports thousands of devices from over 180 vendors and has an API-first approach for integrating with other applications in the Network Operations Center.

Juniper Networks has a host of network automation features for all your automation needs. Its AI-powered, cloud-delivered Juniper Paragon Automaton feature, for instance, makes automating all of your network operations simple and easy – allowing you to evolve to an AIOps model that better supports your device, network, and service lifecycles. Meanwhile, its Paragon planners let you optimise network usage without impacting network performance by offering Offers real-time LSP path computation and provisioning. 

Unlike networking platforms that are built upon service-specific hardware, Juniper Networks supports a software infrastructure that is independent of the hardware. Its network automation solution also uses the award-winning Mist-AI to bring unparalleled automation to the company o the campus and branch, including event correlation across the LAN and WAN, proactive anomaly detection, dynamic packet captures when issues occur, and even self-driving network operations where the infrastructure can adapt to changing conditions in real time.

With advanced automation, rich API, and a host of out-of-the-box integrations, Infoblox provides powerful network automation tools to enable you to manage complex, hybrid, multi-cloud networks easily. The company’s Cloud Network Automation solution makes it possible to centrally and automatically manage DDI, DNS and IPAM provisioning – even in the most complex cloud network environments. Infoblox enables auditing and reporting across clouds for DNS records, DHCP leases and IP addresses, while its templated integrations, APIs and orchestration tools deliver faster time to value for cloud-enabled workloads. This not only reduces project times from days to minutes or seconds but also allows your company to gain unprecedented visibility into VM IP details and Drill down into IP addresses, DHCP lease and DNS histories. 

Infloblox provides one central management GUI for all cloud network automation tasks, regardless of the number, size and geographical location of the clouds. It acts as a single control plane for network operations, enabling visibility and discovery into all VMs and network assets so you can focus admin resources on your top priorities. This management GUI – alongside the Cloud Dashboard Widget and new cloud reports – can save your business significant time and manual labour, reducing overall human resource requirements. 

Liongard delivers unmatched control monitoring powered by automated asset inventory and configuration change detection & response (CCDR). By automating configuration data capture across the cloud, network, applications, and endpoints, the platform makes mitigating risk easy by enabling them to detect and respond to configuration changes. Its Cyber Risk Dashboard helps you deliver continuous security posture management by swiftly detecting misconfigurations, conducting audits, and carrying out assessments to eliminate the risks caused by unknown changes and turbocharge your security and compliance practice. It also makes scaling your business easy, enabling you to manage systems across customers with rich reporting and auditing capabilities that help your team increase profitability and efficiency.

With Liongard, you gain visibility into moments during your customer’s lifecycle. The company’s MSP automation platform improves efficiency and gains fast visibility into your new customers' environments. You can build your change management process on its change detection platform and see when changes happen – even in the past – so you can better manage it and keep your customers' systems running smoothly. 

BlueCat’s Network Automation platform enables the network team to centralise control of core DDI services and insight into the relationship between devices, users and IP addresses across the organisation. The platform automates everyday network tasks and functions by dramatically improving network availability and application performance to take repetitive time-consuming tasks off your IT team's hands. This not only eliminates many of the human errors that come with manual network changes but also minimises cloud-service delivery bottlenecks to boost productivity even faster.

BlueCat has a dedicated GitHub community with a repository of certified automation workflows, community-built code and adaptive plug-ins available out of the box. By using BlackCat for network automation, you’ll join a vibrant community of developers creating innovative approaches to automate and integrate DDI infrastructure.

RedHat’s Ansible Automation Platform provides all the tools you need to build, deploy and manage end-to-end network automation at scale. The platform makes it possible for users across your organisation to share, vet and manage automation content through simple, powerful and agentless technical implementation. It automates network permissions by packing APIs, plug-ins, inventories, and modules into playbooks that users can run to automate network configuration, security, orchestration, provisioning, and more. It also uses a human-readable YAML playbook format to make it easy for you to learn and implement – no matter your skill level. 

With Red Hat, automation creators still retain the freedom to write tasks that use existing knowledge, without the operational overhead of conforming to complex tools and frameworks. Ansible is an open-source development model of the Ansible project to create an experience tailored to network automation. This open development model connects the engineers behind the Ansible Automation Platform to more than a dozen open-source Ansible projects in the community. 

Progress WhatsUp Gold is a powerful IT infrastructure and network monitoring solution that helps you find and fix network problems before end users notice them. The platform’s unique, interacting mapping interface lets you intuitively see up/down availability and performance at a glance for everything connected to your network. You can see network devices, servers, virtual machines, and cloud and wireless environments in context so you can diagnose issues with pinpoint accuracy. Navigating this map is easy to thanks to the customizable drag-and-drop dashboards that let you see the detailed status and performance of every device both on-premise and in the cloud, helping you troubleshoot faster and avoid downtime. 

With WhatsUp Gold, you automatically discover and map your entire network and can know the status of network devices, systems and applications at at-a-glance. You can optimize your network traffic and bandwidth utilization, use actionable, unified, and customizable dashboards and quickly find and fix your network and server problems. WhatsUp Gold also gives you access to smarter alerting from topology-aware monitoring that understands network dependencies so you receive important alerts rather than confusing alert storms. You can send team alerts through SMS, email, web or Slack so they know about network issues long before users report them.