Device Manager
Auto-discover and inventory all of the devices in your multi-vendor network at scale—no matter what the size or complexity
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Overview
The GluwareⓇ Device Manager application helps large organizations quickly execute network device auto-discovery across their entire network, no matter how large or complex. Gluware Device Manager intelligently interrogates your network to build a database of your device inventory that includes hi-resolution details critical to automating your entire network code-free and at scale.
The Network Discovery capability within Device Manager enables users to build discovery plans to be executed in real-time, scheduled or run via a Network RPA workflow. Users can choose between a subnet scan discovery method or a more advanced neighbor crawl method that uses ARP table, LLDP and CDP neighbor information from a seeded device. Gluware can propagate the discovery by crawling the layer 2 and layer 3 topology improving network security by identifying any rogue devices connected to the network.
Device manager provides the ability to perform backup and restore of device configurations. Backups can be executed in real-time, scheduled or in a Network RPA workflow. The backups view shows the historical backups and provides the ability to execute multi-device restore operations.
Single Source of Truth
It is important for enterprise IT to establish a “single source of truth” for their network device inventory. This includes information critical to operate effectively and minimize risk. For example, they strive to know the currently running operating system on each network device. Applying Gluware’s discovery capabilities, Device Manager is able to query each device across 40+ different operating systems, leveraging their respective device-detect libraries and interrogating each device for current details in minutes, all the way down to its CLI. Device Manager is powered by Gluware’s underlying orchestration engine, enabling discovery across thousands of devices. In addition to discovering your source of truth, Gluware can synchronize and reconcile with an external 3rd party system through the use of the published REST-based GluAPI.
Once device details have been discovered in Device Manager, Gluware grid search and sort features can examine and understand the inventory so users can realize benefits including planning device swap/replace, operating system change management, and more. The details are fully exportable.
Gluware Device Manager integrates with CiscoⓇ API Console to use the inventory information and make API calls to access EoX bulletins, SmartNet contract details and PSIRT advisories. Device Manager also integrates with NIST for multi-vendor CVEs. This information provides further details to help prioritize equipment replacement and OS upgrades required for security concerns. Gluware integrates with ServiceNowⓇ CMDB providing the ability to sync device properties.
- Uses seeded devices to discover ARP tables, LLDP and CDP neighbors then propagate discovery of devices in your network
- Option to use a subnet scan discovery method using user defined ranges and exclusions
- discovery plans to be executed in realtime, scheduled or run via a Network RPA workflow
- Understand exactly what operating systems are running
- Consolidate management of multi-vendor and multi-platform
- SSH, Telnet via API
- Device detect libraries for 40+ OSes used to identify device and performs an intelligent discovery of the details
- Information discovered includes vendor, hostname, SKUs, serial number, operating system version and more
- Customizable grid with searching, filtering and export capability
- Device configuration is captured and stored each time a discovery/snapshot is executed
- Multi-device config backup and restore with view of historical backups to choose from
- ServiceNowⓇ CMDB Sync
- Full detailed logs provided
- Enable visibility of exactly what is running in your network
- Understand exactly what operating systems are running
- Consolidate management of multi-vendor and multi-platform
- Reduce the risk and security vulnerability caused by out of policy operating systems
- Identify and eliminate access issues to devices in your network
- Integrate via API to sync with an external asset manager
- Ensure devices in your network are covered by SmartNet and are not EoL/EoS
- Identify security risks with visibility to security advisories (PSIRTs) issued on devices
- Discover exactly what is in your network across all multi-vendor network devices
- Automated inventory which determines vendor and parameters like OS, serial number and more
- Captures and saves the current running configuration
- Search and sort across all network devices
- Custom fields to add parameters like location details, type, asset tag or other information
- Integation with Cisco API Console to pull SmartNet, EoL/EoS and PSIRT information
- Detailed activity logs to capture all commands and outputs from each device
- Export all details