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Gain granular control and ensure policy adherence with automated network configuration management

41%

of enterprises report hourly downtime costs between $1 million and $5 million—while 90% say it exceeds $300,000

Network Configuration Management (NCM), a key capability within Network Observability by Broadcom, empowers network teams to automate, standardize, and secure complex infrastructures. From device discovery and backups to drift detection and policy enforcement, it transforms manual tasks into streamlined operations—delivering control, compliance, and resilience.

With intelligent automation and granular control, NCM enables teams to identify misconfigurations early and prevent service disruptions. Move beyond reactive fixes to proactive configuration governance—ensuring reliable performance and security over every aspect of network configuration management.

Why NCM?

NCM enables organizations to manage sprawling global networks and safeguard vital infrastructure. It orchestrates configurations across thousands of data centers, providing centralized, automated control that simplifies management across heterogeneous environments without compromising operational efficiency.

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    Inventory & Baseline

    Network Auto Discovery

    Configuration Revisioning & History

    Multi-configuration Aware

    Hardware History

    Multi-vendor Support

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    Security & Standards

    Corporate Policies

    PCI & DISA Standards

    Tests

    Role-based User Security

    Maintenance Windows

    Audit Logging

    Secure Communication

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    Design & Activitation

    Design, modify & maintain networks using graphical network view

    Compliance tests before deployment

    Templates

    Audit Designs

    Service Management Integrations

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    Audit & Compliance

    Automated Auditing

    Integrated Remediation

    Reporting

    Keystroke Logging

    Event Manager

    Credential Roll

    OS Updates

    Geo-diverse support

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    Change & Config

    Scheduling, on-demand and event-based pulls

    Approval Workflows

    Mass Updates

    Golden Configs

    Rollback

    Real-time status

    Change Audit

Mastering Network Configuration for Stability and Security
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eBook: Mastering Network Configuration Management: 3 Essential Practices

Three key ways to strengthen network configuration management: Automate change tracking, enforce compliance auditing, and ensure reliable backups. This eBook shows how IT teams can reduce risk, boost visibility, and maintain control across complex, multi-vendor environments.

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Automated Configuration Management Resources

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    Solution Brief

    NCM Designed for Secure and Reliable Networks

    Enhance network stability and agility with Network Observability by Broadcom—empowering NOC teams to enforce compliance, reduce risk, and simplify control across diverse environments with automated configuration management.

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    Your Network Disaster Recovery Plan is Only as Good as its Execution

    Strengthen your disaster recovery strategy with actionable insights from Network Observability by Broadcom—learn why execution is the key to resilience and how automated configuration management ensures readiness when it matters most.

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    Network Observability Maturity Model

    Explore the Network Observability Maturity Model—your blueprint for overcoming NOC challenges and evolving operations with smarter, scalable observability strategies.

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Automated Configuration Management in Action

Watch bite-sized video walkthroughs showcasing real-world operational challenges and how NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) streamlines problem detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation to reduce MTTR and keep your network resilient.

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    Configure, Comply, Control

    This video provides an end-to-end overview and UI walkthrough of Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM). The video addresses major enterprise network management challenges across heterogeneous multi-vendor fleets, specifically focusing on manual onboarding overhead, untracked configuration drift, SLA breaches, and scattered End-of-Life (EOL) data.

    Through persona-based operational scenarios and step-by-step console demonstrations, the video shows how NCM unifies network discovery, real-time drift detection, line-by-line configuration comparisons, compliance auditing, and Agentic AI-driven lifecycle management into a single control plane.

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    Network Discovery

    This video introduces Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Network Discovery as an automated solution to eliminate manual onboarding friction, blind spots, and stale inventory. Viewers will follow John, a network administrator, as NCM replaces weeks of manual device configuration with automated real time discovery across routers, switches, and firewalls. Through a practical UI walkthrough, the video demonstrates how to set up targeted discovery jobs using SNMP sweeps, defined IP address ranges, credential profiles, and post discovery configuration pulls. Finally, it highlights how operators monitor execution in real time on the main dashboard and leverage detailed Schedule Manager task results to investigate discrepancies, ensure 100% inventory accuracy, and maintain a reliable single source of truth across the enterprise.

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    Config Management

    This video demonstrates how Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) provides real time configuration governance across complex, multi vendor environments. It contrasts slow, legacy nightly scans, which leave multi hour coverage gaps, with NCM's sub second drift detection. Following network administrator John through a live scenario, the video shows how NCM instantly captures unauthorized changes, performs line by line differential analysis against golden baselines, isolates root causes in under two minutes, and executes a 12 second rollback to restore full network compliance before downtime occurs.

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    End of Life OS and Hardware Reporting

    This video demonstrates how Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) eliminates security and compliance blind spots through automated End of Life (EOL) OS and hardware reporting. It addresses the operational challenge of tracking scattered vendor advisories across multi vendor networks, showing how NCM consolidates lifecycle data into a single command center. Following network architect Priya through a live demonstration, the video highlights how NCM matches live inventory against vendor feeds, flags upcoming hardware and software EOL deadlines across 30 to 180 day visibility windows, and leverages Agentic AI to provide transparent confidence scores. Finally, it shows how operators can publish EOL events directly to the Event Manager or export actionable reports to shift teams from reactive firefighting to proactive, planned remediation.

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    PCI SNMP Compliance

    This video demonstrates how Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) automates PCI DSS compliance by enforcing 90 day SNMP community string rotations across multi vendor networks. Following network architect Priya through a practical scenario, the video highlights the pitfalls of manual spot checks and spreadsheets, showing how NCM replaces error prone audits with continuous policy enforcement. Through a live UI walkthrough, viewers will learn how NCM automatically identifies non compliant devices, displays line by line configuration discrepancies, executes scheduled remediation jobs through the Schedule Manager, and provides defensible, timestamped audit evidence to ensure the entire network remains PCI audit ready.

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    The Modern Web UI

    This video provides a guided tour of the modern browser based interface in Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM). Viewers will explore key enhancements designed to streamline network governance, starting with the interactive Home dashboard for at a glance visibility into network health, compliance status, and critical events. The walkthrough highlights core management tools including intuitive navigation trees, sandboxed workspaces for complex change collaboration, dynamic device views, physical site modeling, line by line configuration revision comparisons, and centralized engines for event triage, job scheduling, and credential management.

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    Configuration Drift Root Cause

    In this video, discover how Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) transforms reactive alerts into automated remediation for network configuration drift. When unauthorized or unscheduled changes occur, standard monitoring tools often flag symptoms without revealing the root cause, forcing operators into manual log audits while downtime escalates. NCM eliminates this friction by instantly detecting drift, providing line by line visual comparisons to pinpoint exact misconfigurations, and staging approval gated remediation jobs. See how operators can quickly approve automated rollbacks, restore complete network compliance, and dramatically slash Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).

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  • 20NPS20095 - NetOps Configuration Manager - Building and Deploying Compliance Policy
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    Building and Deploying Compliance Policy

    This video demonstrates how Broadcom NetOps Network Configuration Manager (NCM) automates compliance policy creation, deployment, and enforcement across complex enterprise networks. It covers NCM's four layer policy framework, including Steps, Tests, Standards, and Policies, and walks through a real world PCI DSS 4.0.1 credential security scenario. Through a step by step UI demonstration, viewers will learn how to configure custom validation rules, run risk free sandboxed audit previews, scope policies to specific network regions, and execute closed loop automated remediation to eliminate manual auditing friction and maintain continuous network governance.

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