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Enforcing ACL Compliance at Scale with Two Simple NQE Checks

Any time someone tells me they’re manually reviewing ACLs for compliance, I know they’re fighting a losing battle. That approach might work on a small network, but once you’re dealing with thousands—or tens of thousands—of devices, manual validation

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5 days ago

Tyson WilliamsEmployee

Track Network Configuration Changes Over Time with Forward Enterprise

Understanding how your network evolves is crucial, especially for spotting configuration changes and potential vulnerabilities. Forward Enterprise makes this process intuitive—even if many snapshots aren’t fully processed. Let’s walk through how t

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Integrating Forward Networks with CI/CD or automation tools – real examples?

tenzing29Ramping Up

Integrations

I’m curious to hear how different teams are using Forward Networks in their day-to-day workflows. Whether it’s for network visibility, change validation, security analysis, or troubleshooting, I’d love to learn what’s working best for you. Which feat

DhanaKRamping Up

Host modeling

Hi Team, Could you help me to understand how Forward Networks model the host ?

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musaEmployee

Mastering Ordered Collections: Find and Organize Your Top Results

The new ordered collections feature streamlines how you pull, organize, and present data from your inventory. It helps you quickly surface results—like the top 10 most vulnerable devices—organized the way you want, so you can act faster and share c

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16 days ago

devecisEmployee

What the Air Force Taught Me About Seeing Networks Clearly

Where My Network Survey Lessons Really Began: High-Security Environments I’ve spent years surveying some of the most complex, layered, and mission-critical networks in high-security environments. One of the most impactful experiences came from suppor

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29 days ago

ChristopherEmployee

Separating routing and firewall behavior when troubleshooting using permit-all

One of the greatest strengths of using a digital twin is being able to separate the routing and firewall behavior of a particular traffic flow.For example, suppose we have a web application that is not functioning properly because traffic from the In

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29 days ago

chrisnaishEmployee

Security

Introducing the New Security-Focused Path Search View in Forward Enterprise 25.10

In Forward Enterprise 25.10, we’ve introduced a powerful enhancement designed specifically for security teams: the Security-Focused Path Search View. This new mode improves path analysis by highlighting only the devices and hops that matter most for

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1 month ago

chrisnaishEmployee

Investigating Unknown Products in Your Network with Forward Networks

In support of ongoing federal cybersecurity and supply-chain risk management initiatives, Forward Networks has developed a streamlined detection workflow for identifying devices manufactured by Huawei, ZTE, TP-Link or any other network device of conc

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1 month ago

sidhurajRamping Up

NQE query to analyze the module on IOS-XE, IOS, NSOX, EOS, IOS-XR

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2 days ago

tenzing29Ramping Up

Integrations

Integrating Forward Networks with CI/CD or automation tools – real examples?

DhanaKRamping Up

Host modeling

Hi Team, Could you help me to understand how Forward Networks model the host ?

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Integrating Forward Networks with SharePoint and/or Grafana in the cloud.

SteveBamfordDriver

Integrations

As part of my onboarding with Forward Networks, I’ve been exploring its native dashboarding capabilities. While the built-in dashboards offer useful insights, I’m not fully convinced they’ll meet the specific reporting needs of our leadership team.To

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2 months ago

wenshuoRamping Up

I have created the Forwords Network account .Why I can not login this vis this link.Forward Enterprise | Forward Networks Docs

Rajesh vDriver

I see the filter function and count function shows as unknown functions in NQE query. Please help with appropriate functions for these two. I need to count the total number of interfaces in a devices and interfaces operational status DOWN in state.

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4 months ago

Rajesh vDriver

NQE on custom command

I am running a custom command(show interface status) against all Cisco Nexus routers which will show the interface hardware SFP type.How do I get this SFP info through NQE? I am not getting the SPF printed, tried multiple was. Can anyone help me on t

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4 months ago

DarshanRamping Up

Simulate feature - BGP Peer and Route Path Changes

Could you help simulate the staging of new BGP peers, route-maps, and new routes to understand how they might impact route path behavior? I am planning to stage a change that involves adding a new link and BGP peer, with the expectation that routes

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5 months ago

john_hayesRamping Up

Forward NQE to Identify Unused Firewall Rules

Is it possible to write a Forward NQE query that will produce a list of firewall rules that have not been used in the last 90 / 180 / 365 days (based on hit count)? It would be helpful to have firewall name, the rule ID numbers, and last used date/t

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6 months ago

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