Compare today's firewall rules to last week's


If you're lucky, your firewalls have actual config files and you can save backups and mail them around. If you're unlucky, the only place a real configuration lives is on the actual device. Even a moderately complex firewall configuration has hundreds of lines. And you're expected to understand why all of them are there.

Playbook uses version control to solve this problem:

Firewall Sync

Playbook acquires your firewall rules directly and puts them in a web console. To make a rule change that affects every firewall in your enterprise, there’s a single place to write and track the change. All your changes are tracked. When it’s time to deploy the change, you click a button, and Playbook handles the drama.

Firewall Rule Analysis

Because Playbook fully understands the rules that it manages, it can detect common syntax errors and flag them before allowing the network to be disrupted by broken configurations.

Industrial Strength Version Control

Playbook is built on Subversion, a proven, industry-standard version control system relied on by tens of thousands of software companies worldwide. Because it’s built on a real version control system, every change to every device is tracked, tagged with the author of the change, traceable, and easily rolled back.

Searchable, Syndicatable Timeline

All changes and events in Playbook are tracked in a continuous timeline, which can be queried and filtered by device and kind. Engineers can also securely subscribe to the timeline in an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with network changes.