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Powerful DC Infrastructure Discovery Tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Huge amount of tools for autodiscovery your equipment
- Agents can scan devices even over extremely secure networks
- Wide range of additional parameters for assets and devices
- Custom Fields support
- Multitenancy. Flexible setting of permissions
- Lifecycles. From the moment of purchase of equipment to its disposal
- Floorplans. You can add any equipment if you want and see it on the layout
- Agents can scan devices even over extremely secure networks
- Wide range of additional parameters for assets and devices
- Custom Fields support
- Multitenancy. Flexible setting of permissions
- Lifecycles. From the moment of purchase of equipment to its disposal
- Floorplans. You can add any equipment if you want and see it on the layout
What do you dislike about the product?
- The system seemed like overkill for our tasks
- Not always friendly interface. Probably no longer
- Not always friendly interface. Probably no longer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With this system you can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information and statuses. Engineers no longer need to do visual audits but simply find equipment in Device42 to get complete info. And with properly configured autodiscovery, we get rid of manual accounting of equipment.
If you don't have enough some features in the UI itself then you can implement small http application yourself and configure receiving data from Device42 via API or DOQL (Device42 query object language) and visulize it in your applications. So we deployed our server room schemes with the necessary set of information
If you don't have enough some features in the UI itself then you can implement small http application yourself and configure receiving data from Device42 via API or DOQL (Device42 query object language) and visulize it in your applications. So we deployed our server room schemes with the necessary set of information
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- If you don't have to use autodiscovering you can create many type of equipment as assets
The Datacenter asset inventory that works the way we want it too.
What do you like best about the product?
Device42 gives us the power to make mass updates. We are required to keep track of all of our Datacenter's customers racks and equipment and when large amounts of equipment is brought in or relocated we can update our records relitevly fast. Once the data is in the system we can then use that to create visual layouts to verify the data. Having accurate data is essental for providing remote hands services for our customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Where the mass updates are great there are some things that just can't be added or updated in this manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having the information of all equipment in the datacenter in a easy to locate system make our ability to support our customers much more reliable. We are also providing data connectivity from the WAN Providers and keeping all connections in Device42 gives us the ability have documentation of all connection that are made.
All in one tool that exceeds expectations
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to add subnets and credentials to automatically scan and discover devices on multiple networks. We have a lot of subnets that we need to monitor and update device inventory information as it is changed, moved or updated.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few helpful plugins are not included in the base package / license so appear to be a few core missing features when in fact they are available just as separate addons.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ever changing and growing inventory that needs to be carefully tracked and inventoried. We find this so simple to use that we spend much less time than we used to on tracking these items.
Highly Customizable Asset Manager for All your IT Needs
What do you like best about the product?
The Room, Rack, and Device model layouts are some of the best features in any software I've tried. It's like having a lightweight Visio for building server rooms, cable diagrams, and rack elevation diagrams for your IT datacenters.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is a bit dated, lacks modern graphic elements (such as different font/color themes).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Installbase management was the key feature of D42 that we investigated. It does this very well and allows us to retire our old spreadsheet methods for tracking the data in favor of a singular database with some excellent reporting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'd highly recommend contacting D42 sales and getting your hands on a Demo. I wasn't initially sold until I got into the product and saw how it interoperated. Additionally, since this runs up in the Cloud, you can quickly provision a Cloud Server to run a POC as the system requirements are relatively moderate.
Great Infrastructure Discovery
What do you like best about the product?
Feature such as discovery, dependency mapping are very handy in migration planning.
What do you dislike about the product?
No problems i can think of..............
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The tool helps plan migrations and provides the client an accurate CMDB.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Seek assistance from Align Comunications.
Quick/Reliable response to any questions on the tool and all the subject areas of Asset Management
What do you like best about the product?
All the modules for asset and ip management and Reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Access/permissions set up and configuration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Discovering devices and Reporting modules are very helpfull
Great tool to consolidate all of your Infrastructure information
What do you like best about the product?
- Quick identification of assets and their locations
- Great virtual view of a physical Data Centers/IDF closets
- Easy discovery of assets and infrastructure data with multiple methods of discovery
- Auto creation of the device mapping and communication paths
- Easy to navigate the user interface
- Exportable and API data feeds to integrate with other ITSM tools
- Great support staff
- Great virtual view of a physical Data Centers/IDF closets
- Easy discovery of assets and infrastructure data with multiple methods of discovery
- Auto creation of the device mapping and communication paths
- Easy to navigate the user interface
- Exportable and API data feeds to integrate with other ITSM tools
- Great support staff
What do you dislike about the product?
- Unable to get an exportable report of sub components that have changed linked to the device they are assigned to. CPU, memory changes as an example. Data is visible within the application but not in an exportable report.
- Locked down source code makes it difficult to see exactly what commands some discoveries are running when troubling shooting for those that like to dig a little deeper into issues themselves.
- Locked down source code makes it difficult to see exactly what commands some discoveries are running when troubling shooting for those that like to dig a little deeper into issues themselves.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our data used to exist in multiple teams with no organization of how that data was kept. This allowed us to consolidate our physical and virtual devices as well as the network and application infrastructure without having to rely on other teams to keep it updated. We now can walk from a virtual device to the physical host to its location in a physical room, as well as other connected devices. This wasn't possible in our organization before this application
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have a plan on how you need to discover your infrastructure. Build out your physical mapping first in the app (room, row and rack) then scans by Device subnet for proper discovery and device identification. Pull physical equipment first (Compute, Network, Storage) so the virtual devices will properly import linked to the physical devices they exist on.This can make a big difference on what type of scan you would use to discover the devices. A blind scan could bring in too much data to fast and you'll quickly become overwhelmed.
Excellent Product and Customer Service.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy setup and configuration, Straight forward user interface, min amount of training for end users to use application.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far have had no dislikes of Device42, any issues I had got resolved by Support Team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to identify applications flows and communication between all servers and workstations. Device42 was key in helping define our Disaster Recovery Strategy
A must-have tool for M&A
What do you like best about the product?
- Visual topology information
- Network communications reports (allowing to identify dependencies between servers)
- Last login users, Host information, HW information
- Application dependency
- Inventory
- Network communications reports (allowing to identify dependencies between servers)
- Last login users, Host information, HW information
- Application dependency
- Inventory
What do you dislike about the product?
- Maybe the first scan should be guided by a support session, there are many configurations that can contaminate the inventories (adding duplicates, offline machines, VMs that were decommissioned…)
- I would like a report to be Added where machines are linked to their sites based on the subnet, its very useful when in comes to global consolidation projects
- I would like a report to be Added where machines are linked to their sites based on the subnet, its very useful when in comes to global consolidation projects
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Discovering site to site dependencies in different active directories (using netstat, excel of dependencies that we have customized to obtain the site to site communications)
- Planning Active directory consolidation and application migration
- Complete Hardware inventory (good for capacity planning)
- File sharing reporting - for migration planning (improvement opportunity:obtain share folder permissions)
- Software inventory - for migration
- Visual for dependencies between services (netstat) allowing
- Planning Active directory consolidation and application migration
- Complete Hardware inventory (good for capacity planning)
- File sharing reporting - for migration planning (improvement opportunity:obtain share folder permissions)
- Software inventory - for migration
- Visual for dependencies between services (netstat) allowing
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a product I recommend for:
M&A context
Regular Inventory of Datacenters
M&A context
Regular Inventory of Datacenters
Great tool with a lot of opportunities
What do you like best about the product?
The GUI is simple and clear, no graphics are loaded, so the frontend is very fast. The database is also well-designed and very fast, although we have thousands of objects. Device42 have a lot of discovery options, a REST-API, agent-based and agentless based OS discovery.
I like very much the remote collectors. Very easy to setup appliances with an automatic update feature. Only open one port and you are able to monitor a whole site.
The guys from the support are always friendly and the answers are really quite fast.
I like very much the remote collectors. Very easy to setup appliances with an automatic update feature. Only open one port and you are able to monitor a whole site.
The guys from the support are always friendly and the answers are really quite fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nobody is perfect. Here a few points which can be improved.
- Roadmap: I miss a high level roadmap for the next 12 months
- Release Notes: The update release notes can beimproved
- The online documentaion needs an update on some points
- Roadmap: I miss a high level roadmap for the next 12 months
- Release Notes: The update release notes can beimproved
- The online documentaion needs an update on some points
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Device42 is our single point of truth. Because of this, D42 is connected to many other of our tools, like Jira and Stackstorm. For example, so we are able to deploy fully automated new virtual machines in seconds.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
No CMDB in this world is perfect. BUT Device42 is a great tool with a lot of opportunities and a affordable price. It's really a good choice.
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