NetBrain
  • 12 Mar 2024
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Article Summary

NetBrain Integrated Edition is an adaptive automation integrated with existing NMS tools and IT workflows to automate documentation, troubleshooting, network change, and defense.

Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

  • Devices

Parameters

  1. NetBrain Web API Server Host (required) - The hostname of the NetBrain server.
  2. External Authentication ID (optional, default: empty) - This parameter is only required for an external user through LDAP/AD or TACACS and the value must match with the name of external authentication which the user created with an admin role in system management under "User Account" section.
  3. NetBrain Domain Name and NetBrain Tenant Name (optional) - The domain and tenant name associated with your NetBrain server.
Note:

When NetBrain Domain ID and NetBrain Tenant ID are not supplied, NetBrain Domain Name and NetBrain Tenant Name are required.

  1. NetBrain Domain ID and NetBrain Tenant ID (optional) - The domain and tenant identifier associated with your NetBrain server.
Note:

When NetBrain Domain Name and NetBrain Tenant Name are not supplied, NetBrain Domain ID and NetBrain Tenant ID are required.

  1. User Name and Password (required) - The user name and password for an account that has read access to the API.
  2. Use Backwards-Compatible (pre-8.01) API (required, default: true) - Select this option when connecting to NetBrain versions earlier than v8.01 (this includes v8.0 and all v7.x).
  3. Verify SSL (required, default: False) - Verify the SSL certificate offered by the host supplied in NetBrain Web API Server Host. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
    • If enabled, the SSL certificate offered by the host will be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius. If it fails validation, the connection will fail with an error.
    • If disabled, the SSL certificate offered by the host will not be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius.
  4. HTTPS Proxy (optional, default: empty) - A proxy to use when connecting to NetBrain Domain.
    • If supplied, Axonius will utilize the proxy when connecting to the host defined for this connection.
    • If not supplied, Axonius will connect directly to the host defined for this connection.

To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

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Advanced Settings

Note:

Advanced settings can either apply for all connections for this adapter, or you can set different advanced settings and/or different scheduling for a specific connection, refer to ​Advanced Configuration for Adapters

  1. Fetch extended interface data (required, default: False)
    • If enabled, all connections for this adapter will fetch all interfaces and extended data for devices.
    • If disabled, all connections for this adapter will fetch basic data for devices.
  2. Fetch One-IP table data (required, default: False)
    • If enabled, all connections for this adapter will fetch One-IP table data for devices and all interfaces and extended data for devices (even if the Fetch extended interface data checkbox is disabled).
    • If disabled, all connections for this adapter will not fetch One-IP table data for devices.
  3. Create One-IP entries as device (required, default: False) - Select this option to create One-IP entries as devices.
  4. Async One-IP requests in parallel (required, default: 5) - Select this option to configure how many requests to send each time to OneIP.
    • If you configure this option, you must select the Create One-IP entries as device checkbox.
  5. Number of parallel processes (required, default: 1) - Select this option to configure the number of parallel processes to fetch devices from NetBrain.
  6. Comma separated list of DNS resolvers - Add a comma-separated list of DNS resolvers. The system will then use them to get the DNS name of the device from the IP address.


NOTE

For details on general advanced settings under the Adapter Configuration tab, see Adapter Advanced Settings.


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