As implementation of RPA is becoming popular among various industries, professionals are curious to know about RPA for Network Automation. RPA can play a significant role in building a cutting-edge IT infrastructure for your business. A strategic and structured approach to implementing; RPA can become a vital part of your business. Your IT operations will be more reliable and secured with fewer errors.
Likewise, Network Automation for your infrastructure will help you overcome the high cost and low productivity of a standard infrastructure setup. Our team can help you identify and automate your necessary processes, resulting in better ROI with agile operations.
Introduction to Network Automation
In simple words, Network Automation is software that automates and secures your network while continuously maximizing its efficiency and functionality. Additionally, it is coexistent with network virtualization. Modern businesses strive to attain faster, more agile and consistent measures to manage their applications. Those applications may be conventional or cloud-based.
Network Automation can help by automating networking functions like resource provisioning, network mapping, and network testing. Moreover, it will understand network behaviours, provide predictive analysis, and provide insights to the network operations teams. Although, its primary goal is to transition the manual tasks and processes that make the overall process quicker and more efficient.
Why do we need Network Automation?
Network automation software discovers the most efficient way to map, configure, and operate a network. The API-based Network Automation Software substitutes manual command-line instructions for configuring networking devices. These APIs can be assembled directly or call commands through a programming language, like Python or Java. A modern automation platform monitors network resources when provisioning and diagnoses the network and whether it will handle the configuration request before implementing it.
As network automation is one of the critical methodologies supporting the evolution of intent-based networking and network validation, these concepts use software to map how enterprises can harness their resources to meet the business demands their networks need to support. Such advanced automation solutions configure remedial action autonomously, delivering closed-loop remediation of network problems at their occurrence or even before they occur.
Creating a dynamic network
Networks become more dynamically adapt based on user demand and business needs. With the help of automating manual updates and modifications, you can optimize network execution, promote more outstanding business agility, and accelerate the rollout of unique services and applications. That will result in better network planning and design, including strategic planning and inventory management.
Simplifying network management
Many network management processes take a lot of time and drain resources because they are still performed manually. Network automation makes it feasible to perform these processes more often, reducing the risk of network failure and downtime. Furthermore, when the network is automated, configurations are consistently applied across the infrastructure with ease, making management more simple, faster and easier to scale.
Reduce Errors & Workloads
As Network automation does not eliminate the number of humans in your project, it reduces the number of human errors, which can cause up to 80 per cent of network failures. Automating repetitive manual processes will minimize inaccuracy while keeping the network functioning. Network automation makes your network more vigilant by adding support monitoring tools that alert admins to performance issues, access resource utilization, and errors in the network. It also allows you to execute and report upon service-level agreement with better speed and accuracy.
Moreover, by leveraging simpler workflows with the efficiency of closed-loop, intent-based operations, typical network issues are resolved immediately. Automation of your network operations allows the potential for manual process-related errors like configuration errors, typos, and more reduced.
Focus on more valuable tasks
Without automation, the technical team will have to manually resolve all management operations, maintenance processes, troubleshooting and monitoring tasks. Therefore automation will remove repetitive tasks from the technical teams’ workload. Network automation allows your team to focus on strategic initiatives that improve productivity, identify new opportunities, and drive business improvements and innovation. Implementing network automation makes the network more reliable, decreases human error, and ensures consistency when deploying and configuring devices and services. That translates to a lower risk of performance issues, equipment failure, security and data breaches.
What are the skills required for Network Automation?
Firstly, basic networking knowledge is apparent, whether developing an application to monitor network resources or leading a project. It is vital building a basic familiarity with your infrastructure and the technology you are trying to automate. Further, learning the required programming languages is equally essential as everything will be in code. The most common programming languages used in network automation are Python, Linux, Devnet and more.
Although you may know how to code, writing an effective code is another skill to master. To write great code, you need to have the ability to call your commands from other files and break your code into smaller functions to perform effectively. Last but not least, once you’ve ensured all of the earlier mentioned efforts, you need to expand your skill set with APIs. That helps your applications communicate with each other, making your infrastructure more advance and efficient.
Outworks team has the expertise in automation and has successfully implemented automation for its tier-one IT clients. From providing the right resources to kickstart your project to managing your end-to-end services, our team will help you meet your technology goals.
