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One screen.
Every signal. Explained.

NetCentral is the network and security operations console built for a financial-services firm — one place to see everything seven separate tools used to show, joined into incidents that actually mean something.

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88estate health
Core link degradedDISASTER
WAN latency risingWARNING
Maintenance window activeSUPPRESSED
Backups verifiedOK
Manysources joined into one view
Onceevery event counted exactly once
ExpertAI configuration review
Testedon every release before it ships
The problem

Seven consoles, one engineer, and a working day that can't wait

Monitoring, logs, firewalls, wireless, storage and uptime tools each told part of the story. NetCentral reads them all, matches every device to a single identity, and turns thousands of raw signals into a short list of incidents with a clear reason for each.

  • Every device matched across all sources to one identity
  • Devices removed automatically when they leave every source's inventory
  • Read-only by design — it never writes to a network device
  • Vulnerability and end-of-life feeds checked against the software actually running
  • Configuration backups stored read-only with diffs and 'what changed'
# how an outage becomes ONE incident
rule R0 merge 'device down' reported by several sources
suppress children behind a failed uplink → one uplink, one incident
classify flapping vs. failing (a rebooting PC is not a fault)
score weight by severity × device class, diminishing per class
result 1 incident · reason shown · health ledger updated
Inside the engine

The smarts

Correlation engine

Many rules — from cross-source device-down merges to critical-path degradation, optic decline, port flaps and fleet-wide log patterns. Most specific rule wins; every event is charged to exactly one incident.

Health score with a ledger

A score out of 100 computed from its own explanation. Deductions weighted by severity and device class — the fifth tunnel down counts less than the first.

Alert decision engine

Routes by severity, device class, site, source and time of day. Knows new from escalation, reopen, recovery and closed — and records why anything was held.

Time-aware logic

Business session clocks including sessions that cross midnight and weekends, with daylight-saving and holiday awareness, plus maintenance windows and quiet hours.

Grounded AI analyst

An AI analyst that answers only from verified facts and shows the evidence.

Privacy guardrails

Sensitive details are protected before any AI is used, and AI spend is capped.

Live topology map

Built from the devices' own neighbour tables. Every cable repainted from live port state every 60 seconds — red when down, amber when flapping.

Multi-channel ops wall

Operations, capacity, hardware, voice, planned work and more — each monitor on its own channel, and the wall says so if it ever stops updating.

AI expert config review

Rules measure every device against the estate's own majority standard, with evidence, the exact fix, and how to verify it.

New since launch

It keeps learning

NetCentral ships improvements almost every day. Some of the biggest since this page first went up:

Alert management that holds

What the monitoring says is kept apart from what a person decided, so a dealt-with alert never quietly returns, and down-on-purpose links clear in one click.

Ack, Snooze, Resolve, Standby →

The Briefing, read aloud

A morning state-of-the-network article written from verified facts, with a measured trajectory and a bottom line, read aloud.

NetCentral News

An optional animated news desk with nine fictional presenters, each owning a beat. Every figure on air is checked against the live system first.

Meet the cast →

Lifecycle and known vulnerabilities

End-of-support dates and vendor security advisories matched to the software each device actually runs. Never advice unless it is verified.

Help on every page

A Help Center with illustrated articles, plus an infographic library whose every fact is computed from the live system.

It checks its own claims

Open findings are re-read from the device after every change and closed when the evidence says they are fixed.

Endpoints and people

Workstations, patching, vulnerabilities and DNS protection joined to the network, so a problem has a machine and a person attached.

Time-sensitive by design

It knows what time it is — and what that means

For a business that runs on time-critical systems, 'down for five minutes' means something very different during working hours than at 2 am on a Sunday.

Poll

Core sources every 60 s; others every 2–5 minutes.

Correlate

Signals folded into incidents, most specific rule first.

Decide

Severity, time of day and windows weigh in.

Hold or send

Rate limits, quiet hours, storm digests: 8+ incidents in 15 min → one message.

Explain

Every decision recorded — including why something was held.

Built to be trusted

Engineering you can audit

  • Tested on every release before it ships
  • Safeguards verified, not assumed
  • Every release checked on the real screens
  • Backups verified nightly
  • Safe, reversible releases with a rollback point
  • Operators, not code, change intervals and rules — from the app
  • Every operator action attributed and audited
  • Role-based access with login lockout
  • A token-gated read API and metrics endpoint
  • In-app alerting only
  • Device configuration changes stay with people
  • Released continually
Who builds it

Built by a director and an AI crew

NetCentral is built by Jose M. Laboy, Synthetic Intelligence Director, working with a crew of AI engineers.

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