Curated Use Cases

Use NCP to streamline and strengthen your network operations across these key areas:

• Basic NetOps Automate and streamline daily tasks, improve operational efficiency, and reduce the risk of human error. Get actionable insights, real-time performance metrics, and generate visual reports to support decision-making.

• Flow Analytics Gain visibility into how traffic flows through the network. Analyze patterns in real time and historically to detect anomalies, plan capacity, and optimize performance.

• Inventory Insights Quickly search your installed base by interface types, port speed, IP, host name, hardware/OS version, transceivers, location, and more. Ideal for troubleshooting, planning, and architectural reviews.

• Security Audits Validate network security against custom-defined rules, including:

  • Secure management access (SSH, TACACS+, RADIUS)

  • Access control (ACLs, firewalls)

  • Hostname naming conventions

  Helps ensure IT security compliance and policy enforcement.

• Support Knowledge Base Proactively manage hardware/software lifecycle to reduce outages and vendor risks. Integrates vendor intelligence - EoS dates, CVEs, bug reports - to monitor your infrastructure’s health.

• Upgrade Compliance Track OS changes, ensure pre/post upgrade compliance, and visualize how upgrades impact network behavior over time. Supports tracking of firmware changes, RMAs, and config shifts.

• Ticketing and Support Integrate with tools like ServiceNow and Zendesk to track support cases by customer ID, monitor trends, and use data to accelerate RCA and build executive-level summaries.

• Observability For Deep Network Observability users, analyze metadata, KPIs, and even packet captures to understand app usage, user QoE, and pinpoint network impact.