In addition to BGP session and policy configuration management, PeerCtl provides workflow management as well. It provides email templates for each step of the process, greatly increasing the efficiency of even the busiest peering manager. You can even send the emails directly from PeerCtl, pulling peer email addresses from PeeringDB, with an option to override when you know better. A default reply-to address can be configured and also overridden when needed.

PeerCtl manages resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) and route origin authorizations (ROAs) for your network by taking data directly from PeeringDB and combining it with always up-to-date industry best practices to generate (and maintain) secure BGP configurations.

Another great feature for the busy peering manager is PeerCtl’s ability to search for networks at common IX. Using PeeringDB data within the PeerCtl portal you can search for new peers across all of your connected IX and request peering using the workflow manager. You can also search for additional IX that you have in common with a current peer, and set up peering with them across all of them for better traffic distribution and increased redundancy.

PeerCtl provides a centralized “BGP summary” style view into all of your configured BGP sessions, across your entire network. Never login to a router for a status update again. Plus, share this information with colleagues who don’t have the access or ability to query network devices directly.

To make initial setup easier, PeerCtl allows you to import existing BGP session configurations directly from your current routers. No copy and pasting needed!

PeerCtl is designed to be the ultimate source of truth for your Interconnection efforts. Your days of searching through spreadsheets, emails, and chat messages are over! This single source of truth is a great foundation for additional automation efforts.

PeerCtl imports all PeeringDB network information to drive automatic configurations. Any data imported from PeeringDB can be overridden by admins or users as needed. You can also authenticate users with PeeringDB, if you like.

Allows the synchronization of NetBox and/or Nautobot data to PeerCtl as well as to send updates to NetBox/Nautobot. If you prefer that NetBox or Nautobot drive device configurations and manage devices, PeerCtl can push the needed information to NetBox/Nautobot. Likewise, you can pull your “Facilities” (locations / PoPs) from PeeringDB and push them into NetBox/Nautobot, providing live updates from PDB. Alternatively, you can pull device and interface information from NetBox/Nautobot into PeerCtl for direct router management within PeerCtl.

Not only is the API (Application Programming Interface) a first class citizen, it’s the only citizen - the web interface is 100% API driven. The API allows any external system to interact with any individual component in the system which helps users easily automate their workflow.

All FullCtl products come with audit logging and role based access control (RBAC) out of the box. Anytime someone makes a change to the system, others from that company can identify who made the change and how the system was impacted. The system can auto-populate PeerCtl groups and give network operators assigning privileges to streamline the admin process. The system can also import existing restrictions such as read-only users.

The FullCtl suite of tools are fully modular. Use as much as or as little as you want. Do you have an internal system that owns network data? You can integrate with that. Have a homegrown provisioning system that needs to be called on changes? Yep, check. Components are designed to be run as a microservice in a container or VM orchestration platform of your choice, including Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and VMs.