IT Organizations typically have networks that evolved over time with little or no configuration/design standards. This has given a general lack of confidence that the network is stable due to it’s lack of standardization. This may manifest itself frrom network outages that are caused from configuration errors (eg. misconfigured failover) or performance degradation (eg. misconfigured interface speed). Also, when security is concerned there is a general lack of trust that ALL network devices are secured using industry best pracitces.
Cliste can help create a network compliance reporting/alarming system including:
Creating Standards and Processes around continual Standards Improvement
Creating a production ready automation platform for running compliance checks
Developing a proactive process for detecting any environment change to trigger compliance checks
Developing Reporting and/or Alarm processes for Compliance output