Did you know that Infoblox recently announced that NetMRI will reach its Last Order Date (LOD) on April 30, 2025, and its End-of-Life (EOL) on April 30, 2027?
Surprising right?
This means organizations relying on NetMRI for network configuration and change management (NCCM) need to start exploring alternatives. It’s high time one does it right now!
To support Infoblox customers at best through this transition, we have one news for you – Slurp’it has been certified as a next-generation successor.
More than just an NCCM tool, they deliver advanced capabilities. Even when it comes to network visibility, security, or probably cloud assurance. It makes sure to help businesses with maintaining operational stability. And go through the digital transformation very easily!
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Let’s understand
Why migrate to Slurp’it?
NetMRI has been a trusted solution for network discovery and configuration management. But it is very near to its retirement. And that’s why organizations must shift to a platform that offers better and detailed network insights. Also, automation and compliance.
Slurp’it on the other hand is beyond some standard NCCM tools. It provides
- End-to-end network, cloud, and security visibility
- Gives users a complete view of multi-vendor environments
- Offers detailed insights into network configuration and interdependencies
- Gives real time security risks (notifications) and compliance gaps
- Allows end to end path tracing. This really helps with troubleshooting and optimization.
Traditional solutions have always been pulling data from individual devices without full context – which often didn’t serve the purpose. They on the other hand, aggregates and normalizes network information. Hence it easily delivers a clear, structured overview of how your network truly operates.
Slurp’it even offers AI-driven automation and assurance!
Businesses these days are increasingly adopting AI-driven solutions. They are built to support:
- Automated network validation. The solution can actually detect misconfigurations before deployment easily
- It can identify risk and monitor compliance across regulatory frameworks like PCI, DORA, NIST, and NIS2
- It normalizes data. Also integrates easily with existing IT and security tools (if the business is using any!)
It ensures that your network remains secure. More than that – optimized and adaptable. It helps organizations to move beyond daily operations.
Slurp’it is more than just a NetMRI alternative!
A key benefit of migrating to them is its integration with Infoblox’s NIOS (IP Address Management). This actually ensures that:
- The IP address management is accurate. They synchronize IP address, network details, and even device data between NIOS and Slurp’it. With this, businesses actually get real time accuracy into network records. The tool can easily detect any discrepancies. And even the security posture improves.
- Great insight and unified data. It enhances IPAM (IP Address Management) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM). The tool does this by combining Infoblox data with real-time network intelligence. And all of this best helps with better network health monitoring, faster troubleshooting and risk detection, good security assurance with reduced attack surface.
- Predictive analytics and dry run simulations. Before pushing network changes into production, It allows pre-deployment testing. It actually comes with a “dry run” feature. This feature helps with identifying overlapping networks and misconfigurations. Conflicts here can be avoided before syncing new data. And all of this helps with smooth transition without any service disruption.
The best part about them is it provides full visibility before execution. Therefore the risk of unexpected failure and compliance concerns goes down.
There’s something you will be getting beyond NCCM!
Slurp’it isn’t just a replacement for NetMRI. It instead is a complete network assurance solution. It actually helps organizations tackle the hidden complexities of modern IT infrastructure.
A study titled The Empirical Reality of IT Project Overrun Costs found that over 25% of IT projects experience major delays, exceeding budgets by 2-4x. The primary cause? Undiscovered interdependencies within IT systems. They bring these hidden dependencies to light. It allows organisations to:
- Work smoothly on their IT operations and prevent all the costly delays
- Improve cross team collaboration through the help of unified data insights
- Reduce overall troubleshooting time by automatically mapping all the dependencies.
What’s Next? Planning your transition to Slurp’it?
NetMRI is reaching end-of-life. Right now is the ideal time to plan your migration strategy.
For more details on NetMRI’s lifecycle, visit the Infoblox Support Portal. If you’re ready to explore how they can best work with your network, cloud, and security management, reach out to our team for a consultation for NetMRI.
Try Slurp’it Today!
Still wondering how they can work for your network assurance strategy?
- Make sure to schedule a demo to explore key capabilities
- Speak with our experts today to discuss your specific network challenges
Give the free trial a try. Make sure to experience firsthand how they can help you immensely with visibility, security, and automation. Schedule a session with us and we can explain you about our modern approach to replace NetMRI and set a modern Network Automation Stack for your network.
