Itential + IP Fabric

Network Assurance Built Into Every Action

Every Change Validated Against How Your Network Actually Behaves

IP Fabric models your entire network, documents its topology and state, and verifies that every change matches your intent. Connect Itential and that verification becomes a live step inside every governed workflow. Pre-checks query IP Fabric before any change executes. Post-checks confirm the network state after. Confidence built into every operation, not bolted on after.

Current Challenges

Automation Without Assurance Is Just Faster Risk

Network automation accelerates change. But speed without verification means misconfigurations, unintended side effects, and compliance gaps arrive faster too. Most teams rely on pre-change documentation that is already stale, post-change testing that happens manually, and intent verification that runs periodically rather than continuously. By the time drift is detected, it has often already affected production.

Pre-Change State Is Assumed, Not Verified

Most workflows assume the network is in the expected state before executing a change. IP Fabric knows whether it actually is, and Itential can ask before anything runs.

Post-Change Validation Is Manual

After a change executes, confirming the network behaves as intended requires manual testing, CLI queries, or waiting for monitoring to surface a problem. By then, the window for fast rollback has passed.

Compliance Checks Are Point-in-Time

Configuration compliance audits run periodically. Drift happens between audits and often goes undetected until an incident or an audit finding surfaces it.

How It Works

IP Fabric Knows Your Network, Itential Acts on What It Knows

Itential connects to IP Fabric via REST API. Before any workflow executes a change, it queries IP Fabric for verified network state. After execution, it queries again to confirm the outcome matches intent. IP Fabric’s model of the network becomes the source of truth for every pre-check, post-check, and compliance validation in the execution layer.

Query IP Fabric Before Every Change

Before any workflow or FlowAgent executes a network change, it queries IP Fabric for current verified network state: topology, routing paths, reachability, and configuration. Changes only proceed when the verified state matches the expected pre-condition. No assumptions.

Validate Intent Before Execution

IP Fabric answers intent-based questions inside governed workflows: Can device A reach device B? Does the network have single points of failure? Will the backup path work? Those answers determine whether the change proceeds, pauses for review, or triggers an alternate path.

Confirm the Outcome After Every Change

After a workflow executes, Itential queries IP Fabric again to verify the network state matches the intended outcome. If post-checks fail, the workflow branches to rollback automatically. Every verification result is captured in the audit trail alongside the change itself.

Continuous Compliance Against Verified Network State

IP Fabric provides the continuous, verified view of network state that makes compliance enforcement meaningful. Itential workflows run compliance checks against IP Fabric’s model, not stale documentation, triggering governed remediation automatically when drift is detected.

Joint Benefits

Confidence Built Into Every Operation, Not Bolted On After

Pre-Check Verification

Query IP Fabric for verified network state before any change executes. Topology, routing, reachability, and configuration all confirmed against the live network model before a single command runs.

Intent-Based Change Validation

IP Fabric answers intent questions inside governed workflows: reachability, redundancy, path validity. Itential uses those answers to gate changes, trigger human review, or route to alternate execution paths.

Automated Post-Check Assurance

After every change, Itential queries IP Fabric to confirm the network state matches the intended outcome. Failed post-checks trigger automatic rollback, with the full verification result captured in the audit trail.

Continuous Compliance Enforcement

Run continuous compliance checks against IP Fabric’s verified network model. When drift is detected, Itential triggers governed remediation automatically, with human approval gates at the thresholds you define.

About Itential

Agentic Operations for Infrastructure, Governed at Every Step

Itential is the agentic infrastructure operations platform, connecting AI reasoning to deterministic execution across network, cloud, and IT systems. When a workflow or FlowAgent needs to verify network state, Itential queries IP Fabric via REST API, uses the verified model to gate execution, and confirms the outcome after every change through a single policy-governed engine. Every action validated. Every change attributed. Human approval enforced wherever you define it.

API & MCP Connectivity
Itential connects to IP Fabric via REST API, embedding verified network state into pre-checks, post-checks, and compliance workflows without custom integration work.

FlowAgent-Driven Assurance
FlowAgents query IP Fabric to reason through current network state, gate changes against intent, and trigger automatic rollback when post-checks fail – with human-in-the-loop approval above configured thresholds.

Multi-Domain, Multi-Tool Orchestration
Coordinate across Cisco, Juniper, Arista, AWS, Azure, and ServiceNow, natively running Ansible, Python, Terraform, and OpenTofu without rework.

About IP Fabric

The Verified Network Model That Makes Assurance Possible

IP Fabric is the network assurance platform that continuously models your entire network — topology, routing, reachability, and configuration — and verifies it against intent. IP Fabric exposes that verified model via REST API so Itential can query it as a live step inside every governed workflow, turning pre-checks and post-checks into checks against the actual network, not stale documentation.

Continuously Verified Network Model
Topology, routing paths, device configuration, and reachability kept current across the entire estate, giving Itential a reliable source of truth for every pre-check and post-check.

Intent-Based Verification
IP Fabric answers reachability, redundancy, and path-validity questions on demand, so Itential workflows and FlowAgents can gate changes on real network behavior, not assumptions.

Open API Architecture
IP Fabric’s REST API makes every verification result – pre-execution state, post-execution outcome, compliance drift – available to trigger Itential workflows and feed the audit trail.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Itential connects to IP Fabric via REST API. Governed workflows call IP Fabric at defined steps to query current verified network state, including topology, routing paths, device configuration, and reachability. Those query results are used as pre-check inputs that determine whether a change proceeds, and as post-check validation to confirm the outcome matches intent. Every IP Fabric call is logged as part of the workflow’s immutable audit trail.

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Governance controls who can run a workflow and under what conditions. Assurance verifies the network is actually in the state the workflow assumes before it runs, and confirms it ended up in the intended state after. Without assurance, governance is based on documentation and assumptions. With IP Fabric, every pre-check and post-check is based on a verified, continuously updated model of the live network.

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FlowAgents query IP Fabric via the Itential platform as part of reasoning through infrastructure goals. Before deciding what change to execute, an agent can query IP Fabric to verify current reachability, routing state, and topology. The verified network model gives the agent accurate context for reasoning without requiring it to interpret raw device output. Post-execution, the agent queries IP Fabric again to confirm the outcome, triggering rollback if the network state does not match intent.

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IP Fabric provides a continuously updated, verified view of network device configuration across the entire estate. Itential compliance workflows query IP Fabric’s model rather than cached or manually maintained documentation, ensuring every compliance check reflects the actual state of the network. When drift is detected, the workflow triggers governed remediation with the IP Fabric finding as the documented basis for the change.

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If a post-check query to IP Fabric confirms that the network state does not match the intended outcome, the workflow branches to a rollback path automatically. Rollback executes through the same governed execution layer as the original change, with its own pre-checks and post-validation. The failure, the rollback, and all associated verification results are captured in the audit trail. A notification routes to the appropriate team with the full execution context.

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Yes. IP Fabric is one of multiple verification sources that can be called as steps inside Itential workflows. Workflows can query IP Fabric for network-level verification, call Infoblox for DDI state, check NetBox for source-of-truth alignment, and run Ansible-based tests, all as sequential steps in a single governed execution path. Multiple verification sources give a complete picture of whether the change is safe to proceed and whether it achieved the intended outcome.

Build Assurance Into Every Infrastructure Change, Not After It

See how the Itential Platform connects to IP Fabric so every governed workflow queries verified network state before executing, and confirms the outcome matches intent after. Confidence built in, not bolted on.

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