Working with Intents
An intent is a desired property of your network. An intent can describe a business
policy or an architectural goal. You can use intents to design, manage, and to verify
networks based on business policies. Intents enable prediction of network behavior in
advance.
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
provides a powerful set of system defined intents
out-of-the-box. You can also configure custom user-defined intents from a menu of intent
templates.Periodically,
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
verifies whether each intent is satisfied,
using a model of all possible network-wide behavior. If an intent is violated, it
triggers an alert.This feature is
available only for Enterprise License users using XL brick.