Key Features

Below are ten key features of ITPIE that give users actionable intelligence to make intelligent decisions and changes to their network. In addition, check out several unique features ITPIE offers in the marketplace, like our All Terrain Collection, Complete Collection, and NVDM.

CLOUD – ENTERPRISE – TACTICAL – ZERO TOUCH Remote air gapped locations are now a snap to collect.

FIND EVERYTHING WITH AN IP ADDRESS. Never miss a device regardless of OS. Vendor-neutral abstraction that models your entire network across all your devices.

SEARCH YOUR NETWORK LIKE YOU SEARCH THE INTERNET A simple “Find” command coupled with MAC, Inventory, Device, VRF, ARP, and more…finds it all.

VISUAL AND ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS Get a quick read out of what’s on your network.

COLLABORATIVE NETWORK PLANNING & REPORTING TOOL.

Common reports that are a go to for most Network Engineers or NetOps teams.

SHOW HOW THE NETWORK MORPHS OVER TIME Bring your network maps to life. Using time slider, watch how your network has changed over time.

Create your own reports from your vast database of details.

Fully REST API accessible and manageable.

PUSH CONFIGURATIONS WITHOUT USING CODE Automation to empower even those with minimal ITPIE training.

All Terrain Collection

Collect from networks that are siloed from your main organization’s network.
See your entire network from one pane of glass.

The data you want can no longer remain hidden from view. ITPIE was designed from the ground up to address the unique security and connectivity constraints encountered at large enterprise networks, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community.

ITPIE can collect in secure environments with segmented and/or isolated networks, to include independently operated organization networks, Special Access Programs (SAP) environments, as well as in Delayed/Disconnected, Intermittently Connected, and Low Bandwidth (DIL) environments. ITPIE can be quickly deployed anywhere on almost any platform for ad hoc point in time or continuous data collection. Then the dataset can then be securely imported into the software’s server application for holistic data enrichment, analysis, and reporting.

Intelligent Search

Radically reduce your Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and Mean Time to Secure (MTTS) with a variety of different searches from a large spectrum of network devices in a matter of seconds.

Intelligent Search gives you the ability to search your network like you would the internet. A simple “find” command coupled with MAC, Inventory, Device, VRF, ARP, VLAN, Route, STP, Phone, Config, BGP, and many more will produce quick informative results.

ITPIE is not only a system of record of what is currently on your network; it is also a system of record with a time dimension. So in a way, ITPIE acts as a time machine of “what is currently on your network” and “what has been on your network.” With each ITPIE collection, all collected data is timestamped and stored in the ITPIE database. This allows users to query what was found on a network during the most recent ITPIE collection and an ITPIE collection performed a week ago or even two months ago. This feature is handy when ITPIE is used as a cross-reference for other IT data repositories that also timestamp their collected data like SPLUNK, Elastic, firewall logs, and more.

NVDM™ (Network Variable Data Management)

Fully customizable datastore where the user can create custom fields, validations, and calculable formulas and store the exact data needed
Multi-user collaboration
Compare planned and actual state
Manage standards and policy
Single Source of Truth

NVDM is a collaborative network planning and reporting tool ideal for network modernization, migration, or enforcing network policy and standards. NVDM assists an organization in keeping track of a wide range of network variables used to plan and manage a network in a single multi-user repository. In addition, NVDM helps create shared situational awareness about a given network’s intended configuration and operational state.

NVDM allows storing network variable data created by the user unique to that particular network. As a result, users can create high-value custom reports comprised of a customer’s unique network variables and labels with the detailed database of device information that ITPIE collects.

Maps that filter and Time Slider

Dial back time and see how your network has changed over time on the map.
See more than just the map, be able to see the granular details of every device with one click.
Easy-to-use filters allow users to show or hide specific devices across the network.
Dynamic layer 2 and layer 3 maps can be easily-exported network diagrams by each ITPIE operator.

It is critical to have an up-to-date network map of your entire organization, even if you have many siloed parts of your network. Additionally, visualize the changes to your network over time. See how relationships are changing by tracking the changes in relationships and when relationships change their up/down status. Spot trends, see groupings of change, and change the focus of your query from wide to narrow with the click of your mouse.

APIs

No longer boxed in by management systems that don’t play well with other applications. Data can be easily imported, exported, or shared by API.
Publish APIs so 3rd party systems can interact programmatically.

ITPIE’s REST API offers a programmatic integration point with third-party systems and further streamlines effective network management.

Complete Collection

ITPIE knows what’s on your network because it supports 100+ OS versions representing hundreds of platforms and device types. If the device has an IP address, ITPIE will find it. Our software interrogates and collects 75+ details on various devices contributing to a database of enriched data that allows users to create highly customized and valuable reports.

Once ITPIE collects all your network data regardless of vendor, it creates a model of your entire network. A map, survey, or report of your network is only helpful if your software collects every device and its relevant details. ITPIE gives you the complete picture of your network.

Executive Dashboard

Use the Executive Dashboards to get a quick readout on the state of the network and see the number and types (Router, Switch, Firewall,…) of devices by vendor. Or check out what has been discovered, validated, changed, or removed from the network by vendor and OS.

High Value – Standard Reports

ITPIE routinely collects and discovers on the network. ITPIE creates some standard reports from that comprehensive collection that most organizations require. Our standard reports give Information Assurance and security departments the unique functionality they each need from a single source of truth. A sample of our reports include:

EOL – Devices that are 2 years or less from end of life
STP – Spanning Tree Nodes
Neighbors – returns all the logical L1 adjacencies
VRF – inventory of all VRFs
VLAN – inventory of all VLANs

Custom Reports

ITPIE collects an extensive inventory of detailed network data. In addition to making reports on each inventory’s data points, users can also import or enter their unique network information associated with each device (e.g., label, geospatial location, NetOps servicing notes). ITPIE also allows users to define their network variables like calculable fields programmatically. Calculable fields can calculate accurate End of Life (EOL), EoSL (End of Service Life), and EoS (End of Sale) reports showing obsolete or out-of-service devices.

Automated Code Config Pushes

Because ITPIE’s customers need multi-vendor device configuration management and backup solutions, an ability to rapidly execute device operating system/patch upgrades, and ability to deliver configuration changes across large and complex enterprise environments (thousands of devices at once), ITPIE delivers vendor normalization and device programming abstraction so you can focus on getting the work done instead of the underlying complexity. With ITPIE, you can finally minimize error-prone and time-consuming methodologies and move to a safer and more scalable “software-defined” configuration management methodology.