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INFRASTRUCTURE DISCOVERY

Comprehensive Infrastructure Discovery for Effective IT Management

Master your hybrid IT with Device42. Get complete, agentless discovery from legacy mainframes to cloud, giving you the visibility for smarter decisions.

Device42 uncovers everything across your infrastructure from PDUs and switches to service communications, delivering contextual visualizations that bring it all together.
Visualize the full impact from data center to end device in one unified view.

Comprehensive Visibility

Build the foundation for smarter IT management with complete IT visibility.

Gain clarity across your IT operations. Complete, accurate visibility across your entire IT stack gives you the foundation to reduce risk, simplify IT management, and make informed decisions that drive results and innovation.

Dependency Mapping

See how your IT environment connects to close gaps, cut risk, and stay resilient.

Stay in control of your IT environment. Comprehensive discovery fuels dependency mapping, uncovering how applications, assets, and services connect. With this insight, you eliminate blind spots, proactively reduce risk, and strengthen resilience across the business.

Dashboards let you visualize logical dependencies and group the supporting infrastructure behind your critical applications.
Full aggregate reporting allows for raw numbers or percentages for easy reporting.

Complete Inventory

Maintain accurate, standardized records to simplify compliance reporting and prove governance.

Strengthen IT operations with clear, accurate data. Device42 builds a complete inventory of on premises, virtual, and cloud assets in one UI, giving you a unified view of your environment. With standardized records, you improve efficiency, cut risk, and streamline ITOM.

The Unrivaled Source for Comprehensive On-Premises and Cloud Asset Discovery

Gain complete visibility into IT assets and dependencies across your hybrid IT estate to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and make confident, smarter decisions.

See and Secure Your Entire Network From Switches to Cloud Workloads

Elevate network visibility and performance with Device42's Network Device Discovery. It safeguards network stability and security while optimizing operations. You gain comprehensive visibility of your networking equipment and devices, supported by a complete inventory that streamlines and simplifies management with comprehensive insights into:

  • Switches
  • Routers
  • Firewalls
  • Load Balancers
  • Servers
  • Printers
  • Fiber Switches
  • Cisco ACI
  • Entire Public Cloud Workload and Systems
Network Devices Discovery Dashboard

Optimize and Govern Your Cloud From VMs to Business-Critical Assets

Unlock full cloud visibility with Device42 Cloud Resources Discovery. Gain insights into your cloud platform consumption, optimize costs, and manage services efficiently. Discover crucial cloud resource details, including configurations, software and services that are deployed or running, operation system (OS) specifications, and additional elements tailored to the resource type. Access your entire cloud inventory or narrow your focus on key assets like databases and VMs.

Cloud Resource Discovery Overview

Accurate Software Visibility and License Tracking Across Every Environment

Maintain precise software profiles across Windows, Linux, and public cloud instances with Device42 Software Discovery. This comprehensive discovery identifies software components, license models, currently used software, and end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-support (EOS) details, ensuring accurate software management. It tracks license agreements and expiration dates by user, device, device CPU, or client access license (CAL).

Software Discovery Dashboard

Identify and Manage Every OS From Legacy Mainframes to Cloud Platforms

Device42 Operating System (OS) Discovery plays a crucial role in identifying both legacy systems and current operating systems, whether they're on-premises or in the cloud.

The impact of Device42 OS Discovery goes beyond mere detection. The proper identification of operating systems through the Device42 discovery process empowers you to make informed decisions around the management of systems and the workloads they support. Device42 provides support for Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mainframe distributions, as well as Windows and Linux for cloud platforms. It includes automated inventory updates and robust tracking and reporting capabilities.

Beyond discovery, Device42 EnrichAI capabilities use third-party information (if permitted) to enrich the inventory of operating systems with up-to-date end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-service (EOS) data. Learn More

Operating Systems Discovery

Manage Your Virtual Environment With Clarity From Hosts to Workloads

Device42 Virtualization Discovery provides a deep and single source of truth visibility into your multi-vendor hypervisor infrastructure, including hosts and Virtual Machines (VMs). This holistic perspective is crucial for optimizing resource use, enhancing flexibility, ensuring scalability, and achieving cost-efficiencies in your virtualized IT setup. It includes virtualization details and data from Device42 Operating System (OS) Discovery, such as OS configurations and software. By utilizing hypervisor APIs, it extracts host and VM details and tracks VM movement across hosts.

Key features include:

  • Broad hypervisor and cloud VM support
  • Detailed VM inventory: OS, CPU, RAM, IP, MAC
  • Agentless discovery, scalable via Remote Collectors
  • VM status normalization and configurable actions
  • Flexible VM naming and alias management
Virtual Machines Discovery

Gain Full Database Visibility to Ensure Uptime, Security, and Compliance

Ensure round-the-clock database availability with Device42 Database Discovery, covering on-premises and cloud databases. Gain insights for maintenance, upgrades, and recovery. Navigate complex compliance and security issues with enhanced visibility.

Key features include:

  • Recognizing linked databases
  • Identifying connections
  • Monitoring database size
  • Supporting SQL clusters for comprehensive insight into your database environment
Database Discovery Interface

See and Optimize Your Storage Arrays for Peak Performance

Device42 Storage Discovery provides deep visibility of your storage environment and helps accurately pinpoint and predict bottlenecks in your applications arising from storage infrastructure. Device42 Storage Discovery dynamically collects performance, configuration, and capacity data from storage arrays, servers, and switches based on IT policies and maps applications bottom up from physical spindles to filesystems in virtual machines.

Key features include:

  • Deep visibility into storage infrastructure, resources, and topology maps
  • Collects and normalizes performance, config, and capacity across arrays, servers, switches, and VMs
  • Auto-discovers leading storage platforms, including Dell, NetApp, Pure, IBM, and HPE
Storage Arrays Discovery

Frequently Asked Questions

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What does Device42 discover?

Device42 discovers your entire hybrid IT estate from servers, storage, network devices, cloud resources, SaaS apps, and dependencies, giving you complete visibility to manage complexity with confidence.

How is Device42 discovery different?

Unlike manual methods or partial tools, Device42 delivers agentless, automated discovery that continuously updates, ensuring your CMDB and IT processes always rely on accurate, trustworthy data.

How does Device42 handle Hybrid IT?

Device42 spans across on-premises, cloud, and virtual environments, mapping assets and their dependencies from end-to-end so you can confidently manage workloads and migrations without blind spots.

What SaaS applications does Device42 discover?

Device42 extends visibility into SaaS applications by integrating with identity and directory services such as Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Okta. This allows organizations to automatically discover and track SaaS usage across the enterprise, no matter where the applications are provisioned.

Does Device42 require agents?

No. Device42 uses secure, agentless standard protocols like SNMP, WMI, SSH, and APIs. This reduces complexity, eliminates maintenance overhead, and ensures discovery is lightweight, but comprehensive.

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How does Device42 keep data current?
Device42 uses automated scans and integrations to discover data at the frequency you choose. Device42 EnrichAI® enhances this data with normalization and enrichment, ensuring your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) reflects your evolving environment while keeping IT management accurate and efficient.
Can Device42 support compliance needs?

Yes. Device42 provides detailed, updated asset and relationship data. This simplifies audits, enables reporting to support compliance efforts, and delivers the visibility needed to demonstrate adherence to regulatory mandates. 

How does Device42 help with change management?

By mapping dependencies, Device42 shows upstream and downstream impacts of changes. This reduces risk, eliminates guesswork, and helps you execute change with greater confidence.

How does Device42 support incident response?

With dependency maps and accurate discovery, IT teams can trace root causes faster, understand impact across services, and dramatically reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). 

What integrations does Device42 support?

Device42 has integrations with over 40+ IT management tools and Restful APIs. By feeding enriched, normalized discovery data into these platforms, your IT ecosystem becomes more effective and efficient.

Run IT with confidence.®