Continuously validate your Source of Truth (SoT) against an application-aware network digital twin.
Your SoT Says One Thing.
Your Network Says Another.
IP Fabric validates your SoT against a verified model of your environment, so you can trust that every SoT-based workflow is grounded in the most complete and updated data.
IP Fabric helps us detect the gaps between reality and documentation.
Compare Your SoT Against Reality
Capture your actual cloud and network behavior and compare it against your Source of Truth to surface any inconsistencies, such as:
- Devices that appear in your SoT, but not IP Fabric
- Devices that appear in IP Fabric, but not your SoT
- Devices that appear in both, with differences between them
Detect & Remediate Drift
Send webhooks to Ansible, ServiceNow, or other tools to kick off the remediation process. Let IP Fabric generate deterministic insights to populate change management tickets, including:
- Change justifications
- Implementation plans
- Risk & impact analyses
- Rollback & test plans
De-Risk AI & Automation
Ensure that every downstream workflow is based on the most complete and accurate understanding of cloud, network, and application behavior. Validate every automated workflow after it runs to prove continuous resilience, security, and compliance.
Resources
Webinar
How To Build a Reliable Source of Truth
Continuously update your SoT, so you can trust it as a foundation for AIOps and network automation.
Blog
4 Steps to Improve CMDB Health with IP Fabric’s ServiceNow Integration
Boost ServiceNow CMDB health to drive more resilient network operations.
Webinar
Uncover The “Hidden Bill” Of Bad Data
Improve network data quality to drive more efficient spending, build resilience, and improve your compliance posture.
FAQs
Most built-in discovery features have some or all of the following limitations:
- They only cover specific vendors or domains
- The rely on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- They can’t reliably map Layer 2–Layer 3 topologies
IP Fabric takes a different approach using CLI (Command Line Interface) and API discovery hopping from device to device to map neighbor relationships until every device—across every vendor—is found. This creates a normalized model of cloud and network behavior that spans Layer 1–Layer 3 topologies, which IP Fabric contextualizes with application data from external tools like Illumio. This app-aware model can be used to validate your Source of Truth, ensuring that it’s always complete and accurate.
IP Fabric can feed normalized network data into any tool via API. Customers often integrate IP Fabric with NetBox, Nautobot, Infoblox, and ServiceNow, among other tools. IP Fabric also integrates with any LLM via our enterprise-grade MCP server, which you can use to check for drift, validate your Source of Truth, and more, all in natural language.
No. IP Fabric will create a dedicated branch in your Source of Truth based on your latest snapshot, leaving your main branch intact. Your team can review the new branch before deciding what to merge, ensuring that you stay in complete control of your Source of Truth.
You control how and when IP Fabric syncs with your Source of Truth. You can choose to sync:
- Automatically, whenever IP Fabric generates a new snapshot.
- Automatically, on a recurring schedule.
- Manually, whenever you ask for it.
Most customers choose to update whenever they take a new snapshot, as it ensures that your Source of Truth is based on the most current understanding of network behavior.
No, and it shouldn’t have to. A Source of Truth shouldn’t be a static record you maintain by hand, but rather a continuous feedback loop based on your network’s actual behavior. IP Fabric powers that loop by discovering a complete inventory of your devices and configurations, validating your records against your observed cloud and network behavior, and feeding fresh, verified data to every tool in your ecosystem.
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