Automating Network Compliance with NQE: The Power of Intent-Based Validation
Manually auditing DNS configuration across a large network is slow, tedious, and error-prone. Engineers are often forced to comb through thousands of...
2020
Beginner
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...
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New Feature
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 mak...
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Beginner
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-cri...
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Beginner
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 workf...
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Beginner
Clean Networks Start with Clean IPs: Why IPAM is Step Zero in Network Automation
It always starts the same way. A team decides it’s time to get serious about network automation. They want to move fast, be resilient, eliminate toil,...
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Beginner
Confident Networks Don’t Happen by Accident — They’re Automated
When I first started working as a network engineer and later as a NOC chief, I thought the stress was just part of the job. At the time, we didn’t hav...
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Beginner
5 IP Address Tricks You Might Not Know in NQE
OverviewWorking with IP addresses in NQE opens up all kinds of possibilities, but it’s not always clear what tools are available out of the box. I’ve...
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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 planni...
For many organizations, the challenge of gaining full visibility into all devices connected to their network goes beyond traditional routers, switches...
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Beginner
Demystifying group by in NQE: A Practical Guide with CDP Neighbors
I created this guide to help explain the group by statement in Network Query Engine (NQE), using a real example where I needed to extract CDP neighbor...
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Beginner
Default Outbound Access in Azure is Retiring — Are You Ready?
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Beginner
Make Critical Info Pop in NQE Tables
In Inventory, you have probably noticed how some table columns make it easy to spot issues at a glance. Green means things are healthy and red means s...
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Beginner
From CLI to NQE: How I Use Forward to Be a More Efficient Network Operator
Before I started using Forward Networks, I was deep in the weeds of daily network operations. Like many of you, I relied on the CLI to do everything—w...
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Beginner
Introduction to Forward Networks' Synthetic Nodes
A synthetic node is a user-generated construct in the Forward Networks model. It is used to represent a device or portion of the network from which da...
