By now, most enterprises understand the benefits of network automation, particularly across hybrid infrastructure spanning public cloud and on-prem data centers, yet the uncertainty on the state of configuration on parts of their network leave teams asking if they should even attempt to automate a network that is out of compliance. In this Itential Academy session, Rich Martin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Itential, demonstrates how automation is in fact the only way to achieve and maintain compliance as well as how the Itential Automation Platform delivers a modern and simplified approach, showcasing step-by-step how to:

• Manage real-time device inventory across physical, virtual, and cloud.
• Use our Configuration Manager to create Golden Configuration templates to enforce compliance across CLI & API infrastructure.
• Automatically validate changes before they are applied to the network.
• Automatically run compliance reporting.
• Automatically remediate non-compliant configurations.