What is an intent audit?

Identify misalignments

Perform an intent audit to identify any mismatch between the intended configuration and network state and the actual configuration in the network.

If a mismatch exists, the Aligned field is updated to Misaligned.

Note: You can also choose (Table row actions), Mark as misaligned to manually set the alignment status to Misaligned.

If a misalignment is found, the audit report form provides details. Misalignments are presented in the following categories:

• misaligned attributes: the value of an attribute in the network (actual value) is different from the value in the intent (expected value)

• misaligned objects: an object that is configured in the intent is missing in the network

• undesired objects: an object that is not configured in the intent is present in the network

You have several options to resolve misalignments:

• Synchronize: send the intent configuration to the misaligned target, updating the configuration to match the intent.

  If you have approved misalignments, the approved misalignments will not be changed when you synchronize.

• Reconcile: retrieve the target configuration and update the intent to match the configuration