Device42 as DCIM/CMDB

What is Device42 as DCIM/CMDB?

Everything you need to provide complete information in your data center and cloud, from Infrastructure and IaaS discovery to detailed floor and rack data center diagrams and power consumption. Use Device42 to power assets to your ITSM ticketing system and drive automated provisioning.

Use Cases

• Data Center Management
• CMDB Maintenance
• Audit and Compliance
• ITSM Integration
• Automated provisioning

Benefits

• Accelerate infrastructure management
• Manual Reduce document time
• Reduces the risk of compliance

Main features

IaaS Infrastructure and Discovery

Device42 automatic and agentless discovery of all your IT assets, including physical, virtual, and cloud components. Network storage and switching, bare metal servers, chassis and blades, hypervisors, IP subnets and cloud services are all discovered.

• SNMP, IPMI, RedFish e descoberta Cisco UCS
• Physical and virtual infrastructure
• Load balancer discovery
• AWS, Azure, GCP e Oracle
• Container discovery for Docker and Kubernetes
• Cisco UCS Manager AutoDiscovery

Room layouts

Powerful DCIM features make modeling data center layouts easier. Map individual buildings, rooms, and racks visually with powerful drag-and-drop editors.

• Drag and Drop Objects
• Easily change rack orientation
• Hover for a quick view of object details
• Select an object to skip to your page
• Heat maps offer immediate availability

Rack Diagrams

Device42 rack diagrams make manual drawings and spreadsheet snares a thing of the past. Creating accurate rack diagrams is now quick and easy.

• Support for 1/2-U and 1/2-depth devices
• Model fill panels next to filled patch panels
• View available rack units and automatically locate the next available slot
• Mount PDUs in and around the rack
• Drag and drop objects between shelves

Patch Panels

View IT patch panel connections and device42 software. Manage structured cabling with easy data entry via UI or APIs and update connectivity back using bulk operations.

• See full connectivity paths
• Color coding for simplified planning
• Heat maps

CMDB

The Device42 CMDB provides a single source of truth within your organization. This provides a clear view of the IT ecosystem to identify, manage, and verify all configuration (CI) items in your environment.

• CMDB preconfigured
• Audit history for all events
• Impact of time series
• Asset views

Hardware inventory management

Device42 automatically locates and updates your devices, making it easy to document physical, virtual, blade, clusters, switches, or any other device.

SSL Certificate Management

Managing complex IT infrastructures presents several small pain points: staying on top of certificate renewals and keeping certificate inventory up to date are two of them.

Integrations

Infrastructure data is not very useful if you cannot easily integrate it with other tools. Device42 integrates with all the tools you already use to manage your IT infrastructure. This includes ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Desk, and Freshservice, as well as configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack, and Chef.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported operating systems

Mac OS X 10.5 x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS