VMware vRealize Network Insight provides customers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers to build an efficient, always-on, and secure network infrastructure across different cloud infrastructures. We can plan, design, and deploy micro-segmentation to have visibility across virtual and physical networks. It is very useful in managing VMware NSX deployments and is available as a service offering as VMware Network Insight. vRNI polls third-party devices periodically (between 5 and 10 minutes on average) on a read-only basis. The protocols used include Secure Shell (SSH), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and Representational State Transfer (REST).

vRNI administrators must configure the vRNI data source interfaces with the read-only credentials that have been predefined on these devices. Additionally, vRNI must be able to access these devices where there are no firewalls and other types of security restrictions...