User Roles & Permissions, Plus Pass-through Authentication with Active Directory
Cirrus v4 enables multiple user accounts to be created with different privileges. This ability offers an additional layer of security by ensuring that particular activities are performed only by the individuals who have appropriate permissions. Additionally, Cirrus can now leverage your existing Active Directory infrastructure for user account authentication and password management.
Device Login Credentials
Cirrus also enables you to create device login credentials - a feature that is normally reserved for those expensive NCCM solutions that will add at least one extra zero to your bill. This feature allows you to better track who made configuration changes to ensure policy adherence and to aid in troubleshooting network issues.
User Activity Tracking
With the latest version of Cirrus, you can view who made configuration changes, who backed up configurations, and when users logged in and out of Cirrus. This user activity tracking ability ensures compliance with federal regulations, such as HIPAA and PCI, while also enabling you to provide necessary documentation for external and internal audits. Additionally, activity tracking makes it quick and easy to determine who made what changes when diagnosing a network problem.
Immediate Device Remediation
With Cirrus' new streamlined device remediation feature, you can automatically remediate any policy violations right from your configuration policy management reports. By simply right-clicking on a policy violation within the report interface, it's easy to immediately apply a remediation script to repair any devices that were found to be in violation with policies. In doing so, Cirrus streamlines the configuration policy verification and remediation process for HIPAA, PCI, and other regulations.
Support for SNMP v3
Cirrus now fully supports SNMP v3, enabling you to collect node and inventory information using this secure communications protocol. You can also upload and download configurations from Cisco® devices using SNMP v3. While SNMP v3 support is typically reserved for high-end NCCM solutions, Cirrus brings this important security feature to the mid-market.
Integration with Thwack
Cirrus v4 offers direct access to Thwack, SolarWinds user community website. Links to Thwack are located throughout the Cirrus application, enabling you to leverage the expertise of an extensive community of network engineers who are highly skilled with SolarWinds products. Integration between Cirrus and Thwack makes it quick and effortless to post a question or search for answers in the Thwack forums. Additionally, you can easily search Thwack for device templates, scripts, and other useful Cirrus customisations.
Unmanage Devices
With version 4, Cirrus can now maintain a list of "unmanaged" devices - devices that are recognised in the application, but cannot be managed. You can designate devices as "unmanaged" to maintain the configuration history for devices that have been decommissioned or removed from the network, which is helpful if you need to maintain a historical record of all configuration changes that have been made on the network. This feature also makes it easier to specify devices discovered by the Orion Network Discovery tool which you don't wish to manage with Cirrus.
Scheduled Config Backups
Schedule and automatically backup network configurations on routers, switches, firewalls, access points, and other network devices.
Configuration Change History
Detect changes that occur to configurations of monitored devices in real time and receive instant notification of these changes.
Side-by-Side Comparisons
Compare network configuration files between two routers or switches or compare a running config to a startup config on a single device.
Transfer IOS Images
Upload/download IOS images and firmware in real-time or schedule updates to run during a future time frame
Configuration Rollback
Immediately rollback to a previous "known good" device configuration with just a few clicks.
Multi-Vendor Device Support
Leverage built-in configuration management support for network devices from more than 16 different hardware vendors.
Config Policy Management
Ensure device configurations comply with federal regulations and internal standards; easily remediate policy violations.
Device Inventory
Perform detailed network inventory for each managed device, including serial numbers, interface and port details, IP addresses, ARP tables, and more!
Configuration Reporting
Create custom configuration management reports or use pre-defined reports for various device details.
User Roles & Permissions
Create multiple user accounts with different privileges, while leveraging your Active Directory infrastructure for authentication.
User Activity Tracking
View who made configuration changes, who backed up configurations, and when users logged in and out of Cirrus.
Supported Protocols
Leverage multiple protocols to communicate with devices, including SNMP v1/v2/v3, Telnet, SSH v1/v2, and TFTP.
MAC & IP Address Finder
Locates the switch port a device is plugged, automating the process of locating a specific MAC address on the network.
Real-time Interfaces View
View real-time network interface data, including port status, traffic stats, port configuration, ARP cache, last time data was transmitted/received, and more!
Show Command Management
Obtain detailed information about the devices on your network in real time using show commands.
Bulk Changes
Change a community string, access control list or block a MAC address across many devices at once.
MIB Browser
Browse, view, and display MIB values on devices; access SolarWinds extensive MIB database of more than 250,000 standard and vendor-specific OIDs.
Dynamic Device Grouping
Group network devices dynamically to perform tasks quickly across many devices and to organise views according to business requirements.
SolarWinds Integrations
Integrate with other SolarWinds products, including Orion, Engineer's Toolset, and Thwack, to get the most out of your investment.
Easy Migration
Change databases or migrate easily to Cirrus from your existing network management solution.
Central Config Repository
Store all network configuration-related data within a Microsoft® SQL Server database.
Cirrus Configuration Manager can manage almost any network device, including routers, switches, firewalls, access points, and other SNMP-enabled devices. Cirrus is licensed by the number of managed objects or nodes, which is defined as an entire device – i.e., a router, a switch, a server, an access point, or a modem.
The following list provides the different types of Cirrus Configuration Manager licenses available:
DL50 for up to 50 devices
DL100 for up to 100 devices
DL200 for up to 200 devices
DL500 for up to 500 devices
DL1000 for up to 1000 devices
DL3000 for up to 3000 devices
DLX for an unlimited number of devices