Before discovering devices and services the inventory scope needs to be defined: For what devices and services is data needed and what devices and services are expected.
Currently, RayVentory Scan Engine gathers data on computers and network devices from Active Directory, network scans, and VMware ESX / vSphere infrastructures. RayVentory Scan Engine gathers device specific data on OS, platform, hardware, and installed software for Windows, a range of Linux distributions, and certain unix-like OSs like HP-UX (11i v1-v3), AIX (7.1, 7.2), OSX / MacOS, and later versions of Solaris / SunOS. It gathers service specific data on Oracle Databases from version 9 to 12 and MS SQL Server. Furthermore, hardware and configuration data is collected for a range of SNMP enabled devices.
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Hint: More options like custom inventory of WSMAN enabled devices or the support of virtual infrastructures managed by OpenStack are available for RayVentory Server. |
The Discovery Wizard allows to configure and to perform device and service discovery. The discovery offers an overview on what computers, Oracle Databases, ESX / vSphere hosts, and SNMP devices exist in the infrastructure. Later, the inventory collects and offers details.
Successive discovery runs are cumulative – later results are merged into existing discovery results and may update hostnames and IP addresses by DNS query and target OS type by port probing or Active Directory attributes.
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