DEPENDENCY MAPPING
See Your IT Dependencies Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
Gain clarity, reduce risk, and achieve compliance by visualizing how your apps and infrastructure work together to keep your business running smoothly.
Unlock High Performance with Device42 Dependency Mapping
Minimize Downtime, Streamline Operations, and Cut Costs for Optimal Infrastructure Management.
Incident Response
Pinpoint Root Causes, Minimize Downtime, and Resolve Incidents Faster
Dependency Mapping reveals how applications connect across your infrastructure. This clarity pinpoints the root cause of incidents quickly, minimizes downtime, and speeds response. You gain the insight needed to prevent future issues and keep operations running smoothly.
Simplify Change Management and
Drive Faster Modernization
Stay confident and in control while transforming your IT environment. With clear visibility into connections, you can identify impacts, eliminate risk, and prevent errors before, during, and after changes and modernization efforts. This insight accelerates progress and drives innovation.
Simplify Audits, Gain Confidence, and Achieve Compliance
Gain confidence in meeting compliance requirements with Dependency Mapping. By visualizing relationships across applications, services, and devices, you can ensure up-to-date documentation. This clarity simplifies audits, reduces prep time, and supports governance.
Uncover Business Service Connections Across All Environments
Device42 Dependency Mapping gives deep insights into business application, network, and
service connections across all environments for smarter decisions and smooth operations.
A Snapshot of Your Business Services Architecture
Device42 Business Services provide a clear and comprehensive visual representation of how different components, devices, or resources work together to form critical business services and applications, making it easier to manage operations, troubleshoot issues, and handle changes.
- Build Business Services manually or from an Application Group
- Add or remove devices and define their connections
- Customize layouts with shapes, colors, and positioning
- Add key metadata like app type, owners, SLAs, and DR details
- Use Device42 data to enrich, update, and query Business Services for a complete view
- Print or export your Business Services charts
Reveal Real Communication Patterns for a Clear View of Dependencies
Device42 Application Groups automatically map your IT environment by grouping assets based on real communication patterns, revealing the full picture of dependencies. Application Group Calculation Rules allow you to precisely define what belongs in an Application Group using flexible criteria such as service type, server inclusion, and start or end points so each group aligns with your unique environment. With this accurate map, you gain a clear understanding of your application ecosystem for smarter planning and decision making.
- Auto-generate visual maps of your workflows based on real communication patterns
- Define your application starting point—like a host or database—and let Device42 discover related resources
- View and organize charts for clear, visual insights; easily save and export
- Track changes over time with timeline view
- Add Application Groups to Business Services for deeper context
Automated Insight into Service Communications and Interconnection
Device42 discovers everything in your environment, providing deep visibility into how they communicate. By recognizing which communication fingerprints matter and which to ignore, Automated Service Discovery delivers precise insights into inter-service dependencies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments by recognizing key communication patterns. With detailed analysis of services, ports, and connections across various systems, you gain a holistic, actionable view of your entire network.
- Identify active services and the ports used
- Gain insight into the potential business consequences prior to migrating applications
- See a complete visualization of dependencies for a specific machine
- Obtain a list perspective of services along with its remote dependencies
- Get dependency data without configuring costly span ports
- Approach asset retirement or consolidation with confidence, understanding the implications to avoid unnecessary costs or service disruptions
Visualize Service Connections and Ripple Effects to Prevent Problems
Device42 auto-generated diagrams vividly illustrate the intricate relationships and interactions among your services. With Impact Charts, you gain a clear, intuitive view of service connections and potential ripple effects, empowering you to proactively address issues in complex environments and prevent problems before they arise.
See How Device Changes Ripple Across Your Environment with Impact Lists
Impact Lists shed light on the services influenced by the initiating device and those it impacts. They reveal how changes or disruptions to a single device can ripple across your IT environment. Impact Lists provide crucial insights into the organizational groups that rely on these devices.
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