Stop Reacting and Start Managing with Visibility Into Device Lifecycle, Software Support, and Security Risk
Modern networks rely on thousands of devices across multiple vendors, each with its own lifecycle milestones, software support timelines, and security exposure. The Nautobot Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) app extends Nautobot to provide a single centralized, automation-friendly view of device lifecycle status, software support information, and known vulnerabilities. Combining lifecycle intelligence with your network source of truth empowers teams to proactively manage hardware refresh cycles, track end-of-life devices, and identify security risks across their infrastructure.
Most network teams track device lifecycle information in spreadsheets, vendor portals, or internal documentation. Security teams monitor vulnerability databases separately. Asset inventory lives in another system. These silos make it difficult to answer fundamental operational questions:
Without centralized lifecycle intelligence, network teams are forced to manually correlate data across multiple systems. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to automate.
The problem becomes more complex as networks scale and diversify across vendors and platforms. Lifecycle and security data changes frequently, making static documentation quickly outdated.
Traditional asset management tools also fall short. They track inventory but lack the automation and integration capabilities needed for modern NetDevOps workflows.
Bottom line
Without automated lifecycle intelligence tied to your network source of truth, teams are stuck manually correlating data, leading to missed refresh deadlines, increased security exposure, and reactive operations.
The Nautobot Device Lifecycle Management app extends Nautobot to track and correlate device lifecycle data, software support information, and security vulnerability data directly within your network automation platform.
Instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets or manual research, teams gain a continuously updated view of device lifecycle status across the entire network.
Comprehensive Lifecycle Awareness for Network Devices
The app associates lifecycle metadata with device platforms, models, and software versions stored in Nautobot.
This allows teams to track:
With this information directly connected to the devices in your source of truth, lifecycle intelligence becomes searchable, reportable, and automation-ready.
The app integrates vulnerability information from sources such as the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), allowing teams to associate known CVEs with affected platforms and software versions.
This enables:
By combining vulnerability data with your Nautobot inventory, security intelligence becomes operational rather than purely informational.
Because lifecycle and vulnerability information live inside Nautobot, they can be accessed through APIs, jobs, and automation pipelines.
This enables teams to:
Lifecycle management becomes part of the NetDevOps pipeline instead of a manual audit exercise.
The app leverages Nautobot’s existing data models for devices, platforms, and software versions, allowing lifecycle intelligence to be directly tied to the infrastructure being managed.
This creates a unified view of:
The result is a lifecycle-aware network source of truth.
Once device lifecycle intelligence is integrated into Nautobot, network teams gain the ability to proactively manage infrastructure risk.
Lifecycle visibility becomes embedded in daily operations, automation pipelines, and planning processes.
Instead of reacting to vendor announcements or security advisories, your team can immediately identify affected devices and automate corrective action.
Operational Benefits
By centralizing lifecycle and vulnerability intelligence inside Nautobot, organizations gain the operational awareness required to manage infrastructure at scale.
Start Using Lifecycle Intelligence In Your Network Today
Stop managing lifecycle data in spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Integrate lifecycle awareness directly into your network source of truth with Nautobot Device Lifecycle Management.
It is an extension for Nautobot that tracks device lifecycle information, software support status, and vulnerability exposure across network infrastructure.
The app can integrate vulnerability data from sources such as the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), allowing CVEs to be associated with affected platforms and software versions.
The app complements existing asset inventory systems by integrating lifecycle and security intelligence directly into the network source of truth used for automation and operations.
Any devices modeled in Nautobot can be associated with lifecycle and vulnerability data, including multi-vendor network platforms.
Because lifecycle data lives inside Nautobot, it can be accessed through APIs, jobs, and automation workflows, enabling automated lifecycle checks, reporting, and remediation pipelines.
Yes. Lifecycle information can be queried through Nautobot’s API or used within automation jobs to generate reports or trigger workflows.
It improves security visibility by identifying devices affected by known vulnerabilities and correlating them with your infrastructure inventory.
Yes. Lifecycle and vulnerability intelligence can be integrated into automation pipelines, allowing teams to incorporate lifecycle checks into deployment, upgrade, and compliance workflows.
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