See a timeline of change management activity


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.

Playbook uses version control to provide a dashboard view of all the changes happening in your network configurations:

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.

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.

Ticketing and Change Management

Playbook gives your internal customers a simple ticket system to request changes. You pick up tickets and work on firewall rules. We’ve figured out what your rules mean, so you can search by hosts and ports and protocols, including inside of CIDR netmasks. You make a change. It’s tracked. Your team can review the change diff. When you commit the change —- get this —- the rule change is tracked with the ticket request, so you have an audit record. Wave that in front of your SOX auditors like a voodoo doll.

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.