Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud.

For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud.

Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud.

Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.

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Whenever we have customers who are looking to move away from their current on-premise or data center environment to public cloud providers either AWS, Azure or GCP, the first and foremost step which we suggest to our customers is having a footprint of your current environment landscape. This is basically called data center assessment, data center analysis, or current environment analysis. That is where we leverage Device42 to help gather the inventory of the current environment and also plan out the application mapping. With the application mapping or the application dependency, we are able to capture and see what is the app to infra mapping, app to app mapping, which apps are talking to each other and outside of the environment and we are able to build up stacks and do proper cloud migration planning for our end customers.

One of the things is around its automated agentless discovery aspect. We have leveraged it to discover IT assets because Device42 carries out continuous and agentless discovery in the environment. We have leveraged that to discover IT assets such as physical servers, VMs, network devices, containers, storage devices, the applications, cloud resources and their relationships or their dependencies with each other and to the outside. That is one of the places where we have found great benefits from that particular product. It also works across a hybrid environment. We have a lot of customers who are not just on one cloud, either public or private, but they have their workloads spread across different cloud providers. That is one place where it has really helped us. It has also helped us in the CMDB aspect of it, acting as a single source of truth where it has helped us in automatically populating and updating the discovery, supporting relationship visualization, helping us with audits, compliances, and any change management related aspects of it. And around the data center infrastructure management of it, these are some of the areas where it has helped us.

Its depth of automated discovery is one feature. It works really well from an agentless discovery standpoint across very complex environments, both public and private cloud. That is one of the best features. Second is that it provides a unified platform because it really combines the discovery aspect, CMDB aspect, the IT asset management aspect, the IPAM aspects, and so forth. The third part would be the hybrid and the cloud readiness part because it really helps us to visualize the interdependencies and plan for migrations and also helps in operational decisions. Fourth, I can say is the faster deployment and helping to calculate a lower TCO. And with the recent introduction of AI features and functionality, the AI enrichment part really helps us to improve the data quality and give us really good operational insights.

The two features which I remember correctly are the Enrich AI and I believe the Insights AI feature. That has really helped a lot of our customers and even our internal teams when they are executing this product or running this product in the customer's environment from an operational standpoint. The push towards AI-assisted IT operations and data governance has really helped us to showcase this as a differentiator whenever we are speaking to new customers or existing customers. And at the end of the day, it has really helped us to enrich the data and the output which we are providing to the customers.

First, it has really impacted the organization in a positive fashion. Because it acts as a source of truth or a single source of truth for our IT teams. It has helped them in improving planning, even a lot of the aspects when troubleshooting was involved. And also in some important decision making if in case some customer of ours is churning or a customer of ours needs to optimize their environment or they want to have visibility and they want to take more informed decisions while moving from cloud A to cloud B. Second, because it has really provided that comprehensive IT infrastructure discovery and management aspect of it, it has really helped us give full visibility into a hybrid and a multi-cloud environment because we support a lot of the end customers and we manage a lot of different customers and different types of environments. So it has really helped us to give a very detailed and full visibility into not just our own environment, but also our end customers who we are managing. And one thing for sure, Device42 stands out as a really competitive tool as compared to some of the other tools which are out there in the market, such as BMC Discovery, Freshservice, and ServiceNow. So it has been really good and I am really happy to see that Device42 is really doing well in capturing and including the AI aspect of it.

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Some of the best features that Device42 offers are that it can discover physical and virtual servers as well as network devices. It gives resource utilization details like CPU, memory, and storage. It provides dependency mapping and gives inbound and outbound communication details.

Device42 provides detailed information regarding the IT assets with Device42 installed and also helps in the identification of assets and their locations.

Device42 has positively impacted my organization because since it was installed, it has been very helpful because we use it for mass updates, which saves us a lot of time; approximately sixty to seventy percent of our time is saved through the mass updates. It helps in making everything documented, hence being very focused. With this system, we can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information, and status. Inventory management has been very seamless.

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Various discovery tools in the market do almost the same thing such as collecting inventory and hardware details, running application instances, and end of life details of operating systems. However, in Device42 specifically, we can do resource utilization analysis. There is an ADM feature which you can enable for resource utilization that provides details of RAM utilization, CPU utilization, input and output, and IOPS details. Those kinds of details can be provided from the deeper server level.

Visualization capabilities are also available with ADDM things and visualizations. You can create application layouts, though the caveat is that these are not dynamic. However, you can set some alerts where it can update as well.

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The best feature Device42 offers for me is the Application Dependency Mapping (ADP).

What stands out to me about the Application Dependency Mapping feature is both its accuracy and visualization.

Device42 positively impacts my organization because we build the as-is as soon as possible. It helps us avoid the delays that would occur if we went to the network team or security team, which would take much longer than what Device42 requires. With Device42, I captured more than 100 traffic entries in just two weeks, which was great.

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The best features of Device42 include the asset inventory, which I find very important for organizations to maintain an up-to-date inventory of their end devices and users for auditing purposes.

Device42's asset inventory feature helps our organization by making auditing easier as I can generate reports and automate dashboards for top management. I also plan to leverage features related to AI and artificial intelligence to integrate with change management systems like Jira or ServiceNow.

Device42 positively impacts our organization by providing dependency mapping for our devices, and it integrates well with applications, especially our cloud service Microsoft Azure, giving us complete visibility across our infrastructure for efficient operations and modern compliance.

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Device42 offers great and detailed application dependency data, networking components, and provides as-is details with interconnections between applications.

The detailed application dependency data and networking components stand out in my projects because application dependency is a major factor that helps evaluate how applications and workloads will be migrated and in what move group. It is easier to define the move groups of applications to be migrated to cloud using the application dependency data, so I can easily decide what set of applications can be moved together. This is very helpful.

Device42 has positively impacted my organization by helping us lead successful migration and transformation projects, and I have successfully completed cloud movement implementation from standard data center deployments to the cloud. It was very helpful in both transformation and transition phases.

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Device42 offers excellent features that include application dependency mapping and asset management where you can see your physical devices, PCs, storage, network devices, and more. Device42 as a whole has all top-notch features, and there is no feature that is not useful. With Device42, you can also integrate with other tools and supported software, so it has great features.

I find myself relying on asset management the most, and what makes asset management stand out is that most enterprise businesses want to have visibility into all their assets and who is being assigned to each asset. There is granular visibility where they can find the IP address. When they have a PC, they can identify which IP address belongs to a specific staff member or employee, and they can get to know the software updates on it, the make, and the access that person has within the environment. It includes not just the features that they can see on the user's device; they can see granularly what needs to be fixed on that device. For an enterprise environment, it gives visibility into all assets and employee activity on those assets.

One other feature that people often overlook is the benefit of asset management. Asset management goes beyond just seeing PCs and extends down granularly to software licenses and the PC's MAC address. With this feature, I can easily assign and reassign devices and know when a device is online or offline. This is especially valuable for virtual solutions, virtual software, and services, as it helps identify what has been captured and what is missing in the inventory, allowing for working towards making it visible by capturing it in the discovery setup.

Device42 has positively impacted our organization by helping us become one of the best companies for asset management and inventory for the enterprise businesses we work with. With Device42, I have been able to work with several commercial banks where they use this solution and they are impressed and happy with the results. They can see down to their storage devices, network devices, storage, and more. They can see everything listed in one click, with the whole inventory displayed, and reports can be generated. It has really helped our business and serves as a good business selling point.

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One of the most valuable features, in my experience, is the precise tracking of hardware devices and their locations registered in the solution. 

Device42 allows us to determine the exact placement of assets based on the building maps and the room details. This feature has allowed us to gain the upper hand on the customers and provide them with satisfaction because they can visually see the arrangement of their assets within the organization.

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The REST API abilities enable us to run scripts that push information from our servers about every aspect, from the bottom up like hardware, software, storage mounts, etc. Anything we need is pushed through REST API to the Device42 server and reflected in the report it generates. 

Device42 has auto-discovery abilities, but it isn't our primary data source of truth. The agentless discovery is crucial because it reduces our dependencies and any problems that might arise between an agent and a server. Without an agent, we only need to report to Device42 using REST API. The auto-discovery that Device42 provides is agentless. It retrieves the information directly from the network or through tools like SNMP, requiring less configuration and no dependencies.

Device42 auto-discovery is divided into a few things. There is the generic discovery that browses anything on the network and gets feedback from the network about what's there. And there's another kind of discovery more specific to Cisco discovery elements or other tools like DNS, CyberArk, etc.

It depends on the license the customer buys from Device42. The benefit is getting information by installing Device42 and running that feature without more complex configuration or integration. It also has other integration and plugins with companies like ServiceNow and CyberArk and many more. 

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I like the discovery tool because it finds everything the customers have. Many customers don't know what is installed on their networks, and Device42 will tell them. As long as the customer gives us details about their networks, Device42 will discover everything on that subnet, including Windows, Unix, and Linux devices, or network devices, such as switches, routers, storage, and physical servers. 

They've also just created some new interactive dashboards. CEOs can see and interact with the data rather than scrolling through endless Excel worksheets to find what they need.

Device42 can do agentless and agent-based discovery. It depends on the customer's infrastructure. Agentless is good because you don't have to install anything on customer devices, but they need to create accounts with permission to read or log onto the devices and pull back the data. Both methods are helpful. For example, you can install agents onto laptops, so it automatically sends device information back to Device42 when the users log on. 

I have used Device42's data center infrastructure management when customers required it. I'm a Device42 consultant, so I deliver what the customer needs. For example, I can show them what they've got at their data centers. If they need to add a new server to a rack, you can see it on the screen before you go to the data center and identify the spaces in the rack where it should go. 

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The reporting part is valuable. You have classic reports, and you can also do advanced reporting. They also have the DOQL feature for queries. You can write SQL queries to get your data and create custom reports.

You can do Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) and design your rack rooms and buildings. You get a tree view of all the servers. You can see how a server is dependent on other servers. You can create a dependency mapping and see which server or device is connected to which devices and on which ports. Affinity is another useful feature.

It does agentless discovery, and it also supports agent-based discovery. You can put an agent on the target server, and you can do the discovery through the agent. Agentless discovery is a good feature where you can discover the target environment without putting an agent. It is similar to credential-based discovery. You just need a service account on all the servers. You don't need to put an agent, whereas when you go for agent-based discovery or scanning, you need to put an agent on the target device. You also need to restart or reboot the device after putting the agent for which sometimes you don't get approval because they are production servers. In such a case, you go with the agentless approach and just configure the service account on the target server. You do a lightweight scan and get most of the information from the infrastructure side in terms of application dependency and server dependency. However, some of the information is missing when you are not using an agent. If you have an agent on a target server, you can also get information about the software running on the server, whereas with the agentless approach, you can't get that information. This is a difference between agentless and agent-based discovery. Agentless discovery is good if you want to start using the tool because you don't need to get any approval for putting in an agent and rebooting the device. That's why most people go with the agentless approach.

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The most helpful feature in Device42 was the import feature, where you can seamlessly import your information into the configuration database manager. It was straightforward to get everything in there. It was also easy to find basic information, such as the RAM and device information.

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The solution is agentless. Application dependency mapping is a valuable feature. These are the two reasons why I believe the product is very beneficial. Before, we had servers. Every time we made some changes to the service, there was a gap between what was expected from the server and what the server was doing.

Network visualization is a basic function. The information is gathered using SNMP. It's not different from others that I've known before. A main aspect of network discovery is that we use it to manage the IP addresses. We use that feature because it is part of the core module.

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The topology layout is the most valuable feature. The IT asset discovery was fairly thorough. Device42 is still a growing technology, but it has an active user base and decent customer support. The data center infrastructure management features are essential.

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I like the tool's agentless discovery feature. The tool configures the devices based on the documentation provided. I am also impressed with its auto-discovery feature. The tool also keeps on tracking and finds whatever is in the environment. 

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The features that I have found to be most valuable in the product are the

• service discovery
• business applications
• application mapping between services.

The agentless discovery is very important because I don't have to install agents on every host.

Also, the Insights+ component is useful for us because it does business application mapping and helps us visualize it. It saves us time because we don't have to hunt for data. When I get a request, I go to Device42 and get the data. It saves me the time of writing emails to different people to get the information.

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We use asset management and program management. For some implementations, we also use the software management.

We use the automatic IT asset discovery for different things, like VMware discovery and SNMP discovery for network devices. It helps us to keep hardware information up to date in Device42, and the VMware discovery helps us to keep virtual device inventory up to date. It helps us ensure that we don't have more entries in Device42 than we have in our actual co-location and that we don't have more virtual servers than we have in Device42. We are sure to have 100 percent of our devices in Device42. Not more, not less.

The agentless approach to asset discovery is a good option. Sometimes it's better off to have agents, but in our environment, for most of our servers, it's really good to have the agentless. For a few of them we would prefer to have an agent because, from the network perspective, it's sometimes difficult to allow external Device42 discovery to have access to some devices for security reasons. The security team does not allow certain kinds of access. That's why it's easier if the secured server can have a call to an external service, rather than an external service calling the server.

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The most valuable feature was the ability to look up the different assets and see the different attributes that each one has, as well as being able to compare them to other assets.

It's also very important that the software provides agentless discovery.

In addition, I really enjoyed the dashboards and visuals. It was easy to navigate.

A lot of our assets didn't have information, which either meant someone wasn't keeping things up-to-date or just we didn't have enough information to go on. But for what we did have, the analytics were decent.

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The import/export for bulk operations is a valuable and good feature. 

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We haven't been used to it for a long while, however, it's actually essential for our customers. 

Device42 is a really impressive tool. Their discovery seems to be really coordinated, in the sense that we have different types of discoveries we can actually run. That's one unique aspect about them. 

The way they manage the assets, in general, is actually impressive, and the way they recognize, the software is good. 

The fact that you really don't need to put an agent on is helpful. That's really an impressive aspect of the product overall.

The initial setup is easy.

The stability is good. 

The pricing is reasonable.

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• The password management feature
• Data center management and tracking
• Room management
• Application Dependency Mapping
• Automated asset tracking and inventory

Any successful IT department needs to have the functionalities that these features provide, whether through Device42 or through a different support application. The better that they can be supported, the more organized and successful a department will be, especially when an outage/issue comes up. Device42 has everything in one place and links it altogether. This helps when you need to figure out where things are going wrong, where things are happening, or how everything is linked together.

Application Dependency Mapping is in a lot of places scattered through different applications. We are trying to centralize that into Device42. When you first start, you look at things like they are just one application or issue. However, when you can think of it as a dependency map, then you can trace any issue you have back to the source and figure out where the issue is happening and what will be affected when I change this one thing. It has improved our thinking about an IP application or IT system in a sense that everything is linked together and one thing will change another.

The asset discovery is pretty comprehensive and covers everything needed.

The solution provides continuous asset discovery, which is great. If there wasn't continuous discovery, then there would be no way to have devices updated if things changed.

Right now, we have full use of the password management functionality that Device42 provides. The main thing is everyone can login to use it for all their setup. This is the password management under "Secrets".

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The auto-discovery and API are big values for us. We like these features because:

• They make requests easy against the Device42 system. 
• They are an open standard that we can use for all our other systems, connecting to all our other systems. 

The solution’s automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality is a great feature. It was a great idea to create this functionality because we have thousands of systems. To do this manually, it's really a pain.

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The discovery is the most valuable feature. Device42 has remote connectors that will go out and look for the changes. You can run Nmap. You can do one-way DNS zone syncs and that's pretty important. Those are the things that are really quite strong for Device42 to report back on your infrastructure.

The solution's automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality are top-notch. The thing I like is that it's open-source. If I need to change them — and they've given me links on GitHub to have them — I can go and change them to pull exactly what I want, as frequently as I want. 

Also, I can show this to CEOs, and they understand it. So the front-end is awesome. 

Once you get the reports done

• the monthly device add-on trends are awesome
• the changes are awesome
• the IP statistics, device statistics, and your building's statistics are all really good.

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The most valuable feature would be the scanning stuff: the discovery. It has a lot of different hardware that it can talk to, providing a lot of good information. The way the solution’s automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality works is you set up a discovery job, then you can schedule it to run. I schedule all of the runs daily at different times so nothing is interfering with anything else. It's nice to know that you can set up the scan, schedule it, and sit back. You can check them every day and make sure everything ran, making sure nothing had errors, then you're good to go. Anything new is going to automatically be discovered, which is nice. It takes some of the stress off because you don't have to know, "If this team opened new servers, we need make sure now it will automatically pick them up." It is one less thing to worry about. It gathers a lot of data points.

We use the solution’s Application Dependency Mapping. It was the biggest reason that we went with Device42. I've seen some eyes open in surprise, for example, "Whoa, I didn't realize this talked to so many things." It's really eyeopening. This is the whole point of app dependencies. Sometimes, you're not able to take a step back, look at the big picture, and go, "Wow, things talk to other things a lot more than we thought they did."

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The most valuable feature is the part that enables us to draw or build our rack and represent all the devices and interactively click on a physical device to "see" inside it. We can see the virtual machines inside a given server and all the details about them, with the storage connected to them, etc. From a global, data center perspective, you can see the rack and you can click and see all the virtuals running inside. That's a cool thing.

Overall, the automatic IT asset discovery is very comprehensive.

The solution's agentless approach to asset discovery is very important for us because installing agents on physical or virtual devices is not easy in our company. We have to escalate these kinds of things to different levels of security. Not having to install agents makes it easy for us.

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I think the auto-discovery is very good. It works well. I don't use it too much myself, but from the feedback I get from other teams — they use it a lot — it seems to work really well. From what I understand it's very comprehensive because it picks up everything: all the IP address ranges and locations, as long as we've input the devices correctly. It is very comprehensive and picks up a lot of stuff.

Also, the continuous asset discovery is good because it means not having to manually input all the small data, such as IP addresses, leases, etc. It helps and saves us a lot of time.

The DCIM makes everything easier. If we need to do something remotely, or if we need to get an engineer out to a comms room somewhere, we can tell them exactly where it is, what it's called, and what's patched into it. It ensures that people don't make mistakes.

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The most valuable part is the ease of use. There's no training involved. It's pretty simple and straightforward.

I also like the inventory functionality. I don't know that we're using it exactly how it's made to be used, but it works for us.

The asset discovery goes out and finds new devices and puts them under Unknown Devices, and then we go in and have to fix it and change it to what it is. It works really well. The fact that it's continuous is convenient. We don't have to worry about it. It just works.

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One of the most valuable features is its ability to auto-discover a lot of the infrastructure, without having to manually put everything in. The auto-discovery is brilliant. You can have it scheduled to run on a regular basis, and the infrastructure is always getting updated within the platform. I would rate the asset discovery very highly. It's very comprehensive. It covers quite a lot of different methods for doing discovery and it supports a lot of different types of hardware as well.

The agentless discovery is the one thing that makes this a brilliant tool. The fact that you don't have to deploy an agent onto anything and you can do discovery directly through the appliance, just with credentials, is what really makes it stand out.

It's also easy for everybody to go into it and search for something, and the searching is very quick as well. You can get to get the information very quickly.

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• Device42 is very easy to install.
• It has lighter graphics. The graphics are easily loadable.
• The front-end is good and user-friendly. 
• It provides network device discovery and Application Dependency Mapping.
• It has agentless discovery; you don't need to put agents on your servers. You can open one or two ports to discover all your infrastructure.
• It has a Remote Collector facility where you can use that facility to discover your DMZ environment as well as your load balancers and domain appliances.
• It provides inbound and outbound connections for your servers.
• Application Dependency Mapping helps us understand on which servers are our applications dependent and what things affect our application.

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The asset inventory and software inventory are the most valuable features. The asset inventory is great because previously we had devices all over the place. We have been able to do multiscans to find devices that we didn't know about, which was great. From the software aspect, we have been able to keep a detailed history of software that has been installed on machines and version controls. Then, we are able to make educated decisions on, "Is this software being installed as a one-off and part of the corporate image or should it be deprecated as the software gets older where we plan to do upgrades this way?"

The solution’s automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality was great when we first implemented it. We made some changes that didn't allow us to use some of those automated discovery tools. However, the software was good and adapted to our needs. We just went in a different way using the same software. The asset discovery is very comprehensive. We found a lot of information that we didn't even know we had.

We use the solution’s Application Dependency Mapping. It has been able to help us with troubleshooting. We now have a deeper understanding of how our applications talk to each other.

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Just having this solution at all has been really solid for us. If I had to pick one part of it, it would be a toss-up between the IP address tracking and the password management. I'm not sure which one of those I'd rank higher.

We have a lot of different devices and some of them have many IP addresses, so keeping track of which ones are assigned where is very critical for putting new devices on the network and giving them new addresses. All of our devices are statically assigned, so if we don't keep good records then we could accidentally assign a duplicate, which would cause problems on the network.

As far as password management goes, before we had this we didn't have anything. We had shared passwords, which is always a horrible idea. Now we have the ability to know who has accessed a password, who's looked at it, and when it's been used or when it's been changed. That's helped us from a security standpoint.

In addition, the solution has some very good relational capabilities that show us how certain devices relate to each other and how some of our environment actually works together.

It also helps us track equipment replacement to know when we have swapped out parts and how much money we've spent on a particular server over its lifetime. We try to utilize all the pieces of it that we currently license.

We use it to track our servers, storage, switches, firewalls, and most recently we started putting our desktops and laptops in it too.

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It's an easy-to-use tool. It's not too complicated with too many settings. It has a pretty friendly user interface and is understandable at first sight. Everything was pretty clearly explained in the tutorial when I started using it.

And I would rate its automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality at eight-and-a half or nine out of 10. It works well for us. I haven't been working with the tool for that long, but over those five months it's has been really helpful for us. My colleagues who have been working with the tool longer than I have are also very satisfied with it. It's really helping us to keep track of everything: 

• the buildings we are using for data centers
• all the rooms in them 
• all racks 
• inventory 
• following purchase orders
• and information about all our vendors. 

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