Find the devices your automation needs to manage.
Build repeatable discovery plans for multi-vendor networks using seeded neighbor discovery or subnet scanning.
THE BUSINESS NEED
No device left behind.
Network records rarely stay complete as devices, sites, and software change. Automation needs a reliable way to find infrastructure before applying inventory, policy, patching, or recovery operations. Gluware makes network discovery a managed activity rather than a collection of discovery scripts.
HOW THE CAPABILITY WORKS
How Gluware powers continuous discovery.
Choose the discovery approach
Use a seed device and ARP, CDP, or LLDP neighbor information to traverse connected devices, or scan defined subnets when neighbor visibility is limited. Select the approach that matches network reachability and the intended scope.
Build and run a plan
Configure credentials, connection methods, targets, depth or address ranges, and the appropriate processing zone. Save discovery plans, run or schedule them, and review results and logs.
Establish device context
Device Manager interrogates discovered devices for hardware, software, and configuration information. Site Explorer organizes devices into sites for targeting work across the fleet.
Use the discovered fleet
Make inventory available to lifecycle operations and audit processes. Network RPA can invoke discovery tasks; GluAPI provides documented programmatic access. NetBox or ServiceNow CMDB synchronization connects mapped inventory records.
THE BUSINESS Value
Maintain visibility into an ever-evolving fleet.
Measure discovered and managed coverage, exceptions that prevent discovery, and the time required to bring a site or acquisition under management. Device discovery establishes the fleet; configuration-model discovery is a separate CME (Config Model Editor) activity.
WHAT DELIVERS THIS CAPABILITY
Several components.
One operational capability.
Each component has a defined role in the process. Explore the reference pages for its functions and boundaries.
Device Manager
Owns Network Discovery plans, discovered inventory, and sites.
DIAL
Provides supported multi-vendor device interaction.
Gluware Control
Supplies credentials, access, scheduling, and processing services.
Network RPA
Invokes discovery tasks within operational processes.
GluAPI
Provides programmatic access to documented discovery operations.
Related Capabilities
Connect this function to the wider result.
Find the devices your automation needs to manage.
Build repeatable discovery plans for multi-vendor networks using seeded neighbor discovery or subnet scanning.