Assets, CMDB & discovery — found from sitemap — Matrix42 Service Management

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• Agentless discovery Report an error

  “Matrix42 License Management uses data providers and the data gateway service to perform the agentless discovery and inventory. The agentless discovery and inventory entails collecting data about all virtual and physical devices of a certain network as well as getting hardware and software specifics of these devices.”

• Data gateway install Report an error

  “The advantage of using data gateways lies in the fact that there is no need to install a data gateway on each endpoint device. To operate successfully, it should be installed on one device that has access to the entire network.”

• Process steps Report an error

  “The agentless discovery and inventory process can be divided into three basic steps: Discovery. Identification of the potential range of devices that should be scanned. Identifying virtual machines that are hosted in a virtualization platform is also possible. There are several viable discovery methods, one of which is importing records from Active Directory.”

• Active directory provider Report an error

  “The Active Directory data provider imports the list of computers, user accounts, and groups from one or several Active Directory domains.”

• Active directory attributes Report an error

  “With regard to computers, the following information is retrieved for each device: Computer name Domain OS Asset status”

• Virtualization providers Report an error

  “You can configure three specific data providers in Matrix42 License Management to access the data center infrastructures that are based on VMware vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer solutions.”

• Virtualization attributes Report an error

  “Both for hosts and for virtual machines, the following attributes are identified: Computer name Domain IP address Power status (Powered On, Powered Off, Suspended, Unknown) Host computer (for virtual machines)”

• Custom discovery Report an error

  “You can run a custom script to scan a network for devices by using the specified network range. For example, it can be Invoke-TSPingSweep.psi1. Using this script for network scanning returns two attributes for computer objects: Computer name IP address”

• Custom import gdie Report an error

  “The obtained information should be imported in Matrix42 Software Asset & Service Management by using an import definition (GDIE).”

• Inventory providers Report an error

  “In this step Matrix42 License Management uses the Windows Inventory and Unix Inventory data providers to collect information about the software and hardware of computers that have been earlier discovered in the network.”

• Windows inventory extended Report an error

  “The Windows Inventory data provider also collects the specific data related to: SQL Server - information about deployed Microsoft SQL Server instances, including Edition Exchange - information about deployed Microsoft Exchange Servers, including Edition SharePoint - information about deployed Microsoft SharePoint Servers, including Edition”

• Analysis license requirements Report an error

  “After all information about the computers of the network has been collected, Matrix42 License Management background processing analyzes it to create license requirements for the used software products. Automatically created license requirements are based on license models that have been specified for each software product.”

• Compliance addons Report an error

  “You can also use several Matrix42 add-ons which import data on computers and installed applications at one go for the corresponding environment: Oracle Database and Datacenter Compliance Add-on, SaaS Compliance Add-on, and SAP Compliance Add-on.”

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