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Plumbline configuration management

Keep the network configured the way you designed it.

Plumbline reads the running configuration of your core, transport and RAN estate, compares it against your standard build, and shows where nodes have drifted apart over time. The same model then automates routine change, so fewer maintenance windows overrun and fewer changes roll back.

Consistency reportcore / last 24h
1,284 elements checked against standard build core-prod-r41. 37 deviations.
ElementDeviationStatus
pgw-core-02Software 21.4 vs standard 21.7Version skew
rtr-agg-11Interface MTU 1500 vs 9000Off standard
sbc-core-04NTP source differs from peersDrift
mme-core-07Syslog target missingOff standard
csr-edge-22Hostname naming exceptionCHG-88412
hss-core-01SNMP location string updatedCHG-88401

In production at tier-1 and multi-market operators across Europe and Asia Pacific, in mobile core, IP transport and RAN estates. Customer references available under NDA.

Configuration debt is expensive

Emergency changes, vendor professional services and years of parallel rollout programmes leave configuration behind that nobody records. Over time the nodes that were meant to be identical stop being identical, and the estate that is running stops matching the one that was designed.

The cost shows up later, and it shows up as time. Maintenance windows overrun because the starting state was not what the method of procedure assumed. Changes roll back because one node in the batch was different. New engineers spend their first months learning which boxes are special and why. None of it is a disaster on any given night, and all of it adds up across a year.

Plumbline measures that gap continuously and gives you a way to close it.

What it does

  • Collects running configuration over NETCONF, gNMI, SSH and vendor EMS interfaces. Read-only, no agents on network elements.
  • Normalises the configuration syntax of six vendors into one role-based model, so a setting means the same thing everywhere.
  • Compares against your standard build and groups every deviation into a known change, a recorded exception, drift or off standard.
  • Automates routine change as a workflow with pre and post checks, staged rollout and automatic rollback on failure.
  • Reports on consistency by domain, by vendor and by element role, so you can see where the debt is concentrated.

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By domain

Domains are licensed separately, so most customers start with one and extend once the model is proven.

Mobile core

Software version alignment, timer consistency across nodes of the same role, and configuration parity between geographically redundant pairs.

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IP transport

Interface and MTU consistency, routing policy parity, QoS class definitions and naming conventions across backbone and aggregation.

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RAN

Consistency between the live estate and the planning tool, feature activation parity, and parameters left behind after optimisation.

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Deployment

Plumbline runs inside the operator's OSS environment on bare metal, VMs or Kubernetes. There is no hosted option and no requirement for outbound connectivity from the management network, which is usually what makes it straightforward to approve internally.

  • Read-only by default. Change automation is enabled per domain and per workflow when you are ready for it.
  • Integrates with your change management system, so every automated change carries a ticket reference.
  • SSO over SAML 2.0 or OIDC, with separate roles for read, approve and execute.
  • Standard builds stored in the operator's own Git, so the reference is versioned and owned by your team.

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See your own configuration debt

Send us a configuration export from one domain and we will send back a sample consistency report against a standard build derived from it. No access to your network, no installation, nothing to approve.

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