NMSaaS backs up configs, records changes, and checks devices against your policies — so an audit starts from a current inventory, not a spreadsheet.
A configuration standard is only useful if you can show which devices still meet it. On a multi-vendor network, that usually fails in the same places: backups are incomplete, the inventory is stale, and policy checks live in a different tool from the configs themselves.
NMSaaS keeps those pieces on one cloud platform: inventory and mapping, configuration backup and change, and policy management. Setup is done with you; you work from your own web portal. Pricing typically costs less than comparable tools, with no upfront cost and pay-as-you-go billing.
Audits and internal reviews ask a short list of questions that are hard to answer from a pile of device logins:
If inventory, backup, and policy are three separate processes, the answers go out of date as soon as the next change is made. The blog post 5 Reasons Why You Must Back Up Your Routers and Switches covers why the backup piece alone matters; this page is about using backup, inventory, and policy together.
A current, detailed inventory. Network Inventory & Mapping records device and system information such as IP address, MAC address, operating system, serial numbers, routing information, firmware, services, memory, interface information, and neighbor data. Devices can be categorized on any attribute, and maps can be built from Layer 2 and Layer 3 connections. That level of detail can support compliance reporting related to SOC 2 Type II and ITIL.
Complete configuration control. NCCM can save, store, and compare unlimited backups for any duration, show the last configuration and older states, and automatically back up a device when a new change is detected. Coverage is described as vendor-agnostic across switches, routers, firewalls, WLAN controllers, network visibility systems, and load balancers, with support for all major device vendors.
An audit trail and controlled change. The same NCCM service provides a full audit trail of configuration changes. Changes can be scheduled and automated for simple or complex work, which reduces the typo-driven risk that shows up later as an audit finding.
Policy checks on the same data. Policy Management applies policies to all devices or to a subset, using attribute filters from inventory. Policies are built from a snippet-based repository — standard pattern matching, advanced snippets, and full script logic. When a configuration does not meet the standard, the platform can raise a policy-violation alert and show analytics in reports and dashboards. Checks run at the database level; 10,000 devices take only a few hours to policy-check.
A practical starting point. The current configuration-management guide is here:
NMSaaS supports compliance work related to SOC 2 Type II and ITIL. It does not, by itself, guarantee compliance with any framework. What it gives you is the inventory, backups, change history, and policy evidence those reviews usually require.
NMSaaS engineers handle setup and upgrades with you, so the audit toolchain is not another product your team has to stand up alone.
“The team at NMSaaS made it a turn key set up. They did all the work for us, handed us the keys, and we were good to go.”
— Michael B., Director of Application Security
Operating since 2003, our team has delivered solutions to over 200 of the Fortune 1,000. NMSaaS customers include a U.S. state government, a top 10 global bank, a large Midwest state university system, an international MSP serving hundreds of clients, and one of the largest K-12 school systems in the U.S., on the Pacific coast.
A U.S. state government. A U.S. state government has been an NMSaaS customer for over eight years, with about 3,000 network devices across multiple state agencies. The team uses one cloud platform for inventory and mapping, performance monitoring, full configuration and change management, and end-of-life and vulnerability checking. That single tool replaced several others and saves hundreds of hours a year.
A top 10 global bank. A top 10 global bank monitors about 8,000 devices worldwide with NMSaaS for performance, fault, and configuration management. It replaced an outdated, expensive legacy tool that required a large on-site compute footprint — a complex server system the bank had to upgrade and manage — and now runs that work in the cloud. Daily policy checks run on all devices, and NMLink ties incident and inventory information back to ServiceNow, saving a lot of time and keeping a single source of truth.
One of the largest K-12 school systems in the U.S., on the Pacific coast. One of the largest K-12 school systems in the U.S., on the Pacific coast, uses NMSaaS across more than 45,000 devices and 1,500 individual school locations. The platform monitors internet bandwidth usage and KPIs from every device for performance and fault data, and takes a daily backup of every device’s configuration.
SOC 2 Type II and ITIL. Inventory, backups, change history, and policy checks can support related reporting and operational processes. NMSaaS supports that work; it does not guarantee compliance.
No. You can build policies with pattern matching, advanced snippets, or full script logic, and apply them to all devices or to a filtered subset. The NCCM best-practices guide is a practical starting point.
Yes. NMSaaS can save, store, and compare unlimited backups for any duration, and show the last configuration state as well as older states.
NMSaaS offers a 45-day free trial. That is long enough to run discovery, collect backups, and apply a first set of policy checks before you decide.
If an upcoming review depends on knowing what is on the network and whether it still matches policy, book a call or start a 45-day free trial.
