Conscia Network Services (CNS)

Conscia Network Services (CNS) is the umbrella description of the services delivered in our award-winning and unique Service Delivery Platform.

Infrastructure is mission critical in the modern network and has to support the business needs, no matter if services are delivered through a private, public or hybrid cloud solution. The number of assets is increasing through combinations of softwares and hardware-based solutions, and CNS is focusing on ensuring:

Stable and secure operation
SLAs matching your service strategy
Insights and control of your assets
Compliance of your implemented solutions
Automation and access to APIs to integrate to your own business processes and applications.

CNS is developed based on customer needs and experience from working with the most complex network infrastructure.

Conscia Network Services gives you access to the Service Delivery Platform CNS, that is your pane of glass in the collaboration with Conscia. Here, asset management is automated to the greatest possible extent with compliance and security in focus through best practice advisories.

No matter how automated the solutions are, our belief is that knowledge and people are still key to success in our collaboration – so welcome to the human network of knowledge in Conscia.

CNS Service Portal

Introducing CNS
CNS is part of the digital strategy in Conscia and is an award-winning application supporting the operation and collaboration in our mutual partnership.
Asset management
Automated and transparent from vendor contract center, to ensure compliance and control.
Collector
Data consolidation
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User-friendly and secure access
Insights
The visualization layer of CNS, that shows what actions should be considered to mitigate surprises in the install base.
Best Practices
An addition to asset management. When we are in control of the assets, we also know where to address vulnerabilities in the inventory.
Restful API
Restful API provides an option to access your data in the service portal, directly from your business applications.

Introducing CNS

The service portal supports the entire lifecycle of a product and is adding valuable insights to you install base.

If you are already a customer, you can get access to CNS by reaching out to your normal Conscia contact.

Asset management

The right asset, with the appropriate service level, on the right location with the right risk assessment, to know the impact of the security vulnerability announcements.

All assets will be aligned in terms of serial number, product number, service level, contract period. All assets are divided into Architectures, Technolgy and product families, for easy filtering and export options.

Collector

With the optional addition of the collector, the automation also includes updating of hostnames, IP addresses, SNMP location and actual software level of the assets. The collector is the validation of the contractual agreement is still aligned with the real world.

Get CNS data integrated with your own business applications
Automated Asset management linked to your CMDB
Full transparency from vendor contract center, with daily updates
Data is filtered to include lifecycle relevant units only

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gives valuable insights into the collector findings and enables the organisation to assess the contractual agreement against the collector findings. The two sources of data give the best total view of your assets and enable discission-makers to know the exact install base on a continuous basis.

Insights

Visual install base overviews, divided into logical categories, eases the overview and helps to address the pain points in large networks. Geographical map overviews and numbers of different software versions used in the networks help it management to know that they are in control.

Best Practices

Best practice addresses:

The number of software versions in use in the install base and the Conscia recommended software version that fits the specific product.
Lifecycle information on all assets, where an announcement has been published. This normally gives up to 5 years of outlook, to know how the impact will affect your install base. The application also suggests migration products and budget pricing for the new products to be able to do budget forecasting.
Software vulnerabilities for Cisco assets sorted out to what is affecting your install base specifically, with assessment option for audit purpose.
Other non-software-vulnerability announcements that could be relevant for the operation of the product. This could be both software and hardware related.

Restful API

As Conscia Customer you can query to get all the latest changes in the install base by date range, or query by serial number, to get a specific status. This could, for example, be used in your own incident process, or as an integration solution to your own CMDB.

Conscia Network Services (CNS)

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