Device42 is mainly used for managing a variety of assets in our organization. It includes servers, workstations, printers, switches, and various other devices. This solution plays a very important role in supporting and managing projects related to the development of scale assistance energy management and distribution management systems.
System Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jan 9, 2023
We were using Device42 for its configuration database manager, so we imported all of our devices into Device42 and tracked the changes that we made on our devices. We assigned them to owners. We used Device42 for mapping items. We tested Device42, moved it to production, and did all our dev on it.
Windows System Administrator II at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 21, 2022
It's a configuration management database that allows you to track assets and identify potential points of failure. We wanted a tool to map which servers were connected to what network devices so we could troubleshoot if a device went down and know what the dependencies were. Device42 can also monitor service configurations.
We use Device42 to report and manage all the assets on our company's private cloud and compile information on infrastructure like network equipment, virtual machines, etc. It's part of the toolset we use to investigate what happens when there is an event or a problem in a customer system. For example, we had a customer environment with 20 or 30 servers. Each server can be online or offline and has various resources. Device42 displays all that data in real time. If a customer has downtime, we can tell what is happening within Device42 and other monitoring tools. We have hundreds of users. Some work directly with Device42, pulling information from the reports, but we also have some indirect users working with automations Device42 is running behind the scenes.
Incoming Data Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Real User
Dec 18, 2022
I used Device42 for security purposes during my internship over the summer. I was tasked with trying to figure out a way to manage and secure the assets that the company I was working for had. We noticed that most of them were actually not secure, and also found out that Device42 was not up-to-date either.
MR at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 13, 2022
Device42 can be used for network discovery, migration, CMDB, and data center infrastructure management. It discovers your on-premise and cloud infrastructure. You can deploy Device42 on the cloud or on-premises. It's a Hyper-V or VMware virtual machine. Customers typically deploy it on VMware, but it can also be in AWS or Azure. You can put it wherever you want as long as you open the ports on your firewall. Customers deploy Device42 to discover their entire infrastructure. It can be based in one location or several. You have a primary appliance and remote collectors. If you've got multiple data centers, you can place a remote collector in each that talks back to the primary appliance. If you want, you can deploy the collectors to specific sites or areas of the network. It's entirely up to the customer.
Sr. System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Consultant
Mar 15, 2020
Device42 will be the single point of truth for our network, service, and device documentation. The first step is to put all data inside with the goal to discover all things automatically. We do have a few things we must fill in manually. The second step is to use this data and create automation. When we can do this, it will be a big step towards successfully automating our processes overall. Processes can be in connection with the driver ticketing system, the installation of new virtual machines in new containers to grab data automatically to ask the system what is free, determining what we can use, and also automatically returning data to Device42. We now have nine data centers in Device42. We have data centers in Germany, the US, Singapore, and Australia. The company creates software and sells those services. The software send mails, SMSs, and faxes globally. We host everything ourselves. We have security, network, and infrastructure teams, which are all in-house. Nothing is outside in the cloud. We can create everything that we need in short time and easily ourselves. I am using the latest version.
Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Mar 15, 2020
We have a pretty unique use case, one that isn't used by a lot of companies. We have Azure, AWS, as well as Google Compute Engine in the cloud. We want to have all of those in one central station. That's why we're using Device42, so that it can track all of our IPAM in one place. We have it on-prem in our data center.
IT Business Analyst at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Feb 27, 2020
The first use case is the most important. It is Application Dependency Mapping. We want to track what is dependent on what. We want to know when something goes down or a change is made. We are also trying to use it as a change management database for what hypervisor is in what rack which links over to what business application is running that uses what services and has what account. We have information scattered in a lot of different places. This seems to be a very nice solution for taking everything, integrating it together, and linking it all up. There seems to be a lot of automation available with our inventory. We have been putting a lot of work into getting our entire infrastructure into Device42 rolled out. However, we have had a lot going on recently because we're going through a merger and acquisition so this has been a bit of a chaotic time. So, we are trying to get everything smoothed out, put in, and figure out. It hasn't been too bad. Since we upgraded recently, we are probably using the latest version.
Manager, Hosting Operations at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 26, 2020
We use Device42 mostly for asset inventory because our compliance rules require us to know what devices we are using: the warranty for each device, when we install it, when we remove it — so full tracking of the device lifecycle. We use Device42 mostly for asset inventory, including physical pieces of hardware and virtual devices as well. We expected we would use a SaaS version but it was not possible, so we use the on-premise version. We have more than one instance of Device42. We have four implementations of it in our company. Each of them is dedicated to a single environment: government, our AWS environment, co-location, and corporate co-location. There is no possibility for each of these environments to speak with each other, so that's why we use four different Device42 instances in our company.
Procurement Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Feb 25, 2020
We are using it for our data center operations, to monitor the stack layers that we have. We are also using it for our procurement operations, taking orders and tracking deliveries. In addition, we use it for following up on contracts so that we make sure not to miss any renewal or cancellation of a contract.
Lead DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Feb 24, 2020
Our goal for using the product is to be able to migrate apps to the cloud successfully. E.g., you can't move something if you don't know all the dependencies or all the bits and pieces that need to go with it. If you move something and forget, "Because it talks to this database," and no one realized, then it's going to fail. You will have downtime and have to move everything back. App dependency is the biggest part for us right now. That is the immediate need. I have been focused exclusively on bringing in data, connecting it and making sure all the servers and network devices are being scanned. I haven't spent any time trying to figure out how to get data out. We are on the newest version of the next-gen line.
DC Lead Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Feb 24, 2020
We mainly use it to keep an inventory of everything, because we've got 77 offices and data centers globally. We use it mainly to keep track of assets we have in cabinets and the like. Also, some of the other teams use it for the auto-discovery and license renewals. Device42 tells you when a license is about to expire on a server. I'm sure there are a lot more uses but because I work in data center management, and from my side we mainly use it just for inventory. We're aware of exactly what we have, where it is, whether it's powered on it, whether it's in service, etc.
In the beginning, we were looking to use it as an IPAM device but we saw all the benefits in having control of the assets, the racks, and how the physical servers are connected to the switches. We set up our data center with all the racks inside and all the devices inside the racks. So at first, we used it for IPAM, but after that we constructed the building with the rooms and the racks. So IT inventory is the second purpose of this tool. We use it to track how VLANs and our different virtual devices are connected and to inventory VMware and Xen virtual machines. But the main purpose is IPAM and inventory of the physical devices. In the case of networking devices, we are using SNMP, and with virtual devices we use an administrator-user to check different aspects of the ESXi in VMware. The solution itself is a virtual machine over a SAN server and it's running in our data center.
Our use case for Device42 is to capture all our infrastructure in a single tool. We need the ability to have that view of where our infrastructure is: servers, storage, network equipment, and applications sitting on top of servers. Our use case is to have that single pane for where all that is.
Device42 uses your infrastructure discovery and network device discovery to get information about your infrastructure CMDB. It uses this when you are migrating your on-prem servers to the cloud or VMware Cloud to public cloud. For our purposes, customers use it to discover their infrastructure, services, applications, features of those servers, CPU, memory, and RAM. All these details can be discovered in their infrastructure using Device42. Then, you can easily migrate to the cloud. We have used the solution in conjunction with our clients’ migration to the cloud. The view it provides of assets and application dependencies assists in getting things to work post migration because of Application Dependency Mapping. We can easily migrate the business and infrastructure applications, thus determining the other applications it is dependent on. This way we can easily predict how to migrate and the things that need to be done while migrating. We provide support for Device42 as a managed service provider. Currently, I have two customers: one is on Azure and the other is on VMware. I am using the latest version.
Manager, Endpoint Management at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 19, 2020
We wanted a rich database of all of our assets and multiple teams were keeping different Excel spreadsheets, etc. About two years ago, a consulting firm recommended Device42. We took a look at it and have been using it ever since. We collapsed a lot of information into it, then week by week more teams adopt it. We are using the latest version that they have out right now.
Corporate Information Technology Manager at SupplyPoint
Real User
Feb 18, 2020
Our primary use case is to track all of our IT information in one spot. So instead of using spreadsheets and other tools, it's consolidated here for us.
Device42 is a powerful asset management tool for inventory, asset discovery, and CMDB purposes. It can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud and is praised for its ease of use, coordination, and reasonable pricing.
The tool's most valuable features include agentless discovery, service discovery, business application mapping, import/export for bulk operations, reporting, insights+, REST API abilities, auto-discovery, topology layout, and data center infrastructure management. Device42...
I use the solution for physical assets management, IT management, and application dependency mapping.
Device42 is mainly used for managing a variety of assets in our organization. It includes servers, workstations, printers, switches, and various other devices. This solution plays a very important role in supporting and managing projects related to the development of scale assistance energy management and distribution management systems.
The tool helps with network scanning and the discovery of asset management.
We were using Device42 for its configuration database manager, so we imported all of our devices into Device42 and tracked the changes that we made on our devices. We assigned them to owners. We used Device42 for mapping items. We tested Device42, moved it to production, and did all our dev on it.
It's a configuration management database that allows you to track assets and identify potential points of failure. We wanted a tool to map which servers were connected to what network devices so we could troubleshoot if a device went down and know what the dependencies were. Device42 can also monitor service configurations.
We use Device42 to report and manage all the assets on our company's private cloud and compile information on infrastructure like network equipment, virtual machines, etc. It's part of the toolset we use to investigate what happens when there is an event or a problem in a customer system. For example, we had a customer environment with 20 or 30 servers. Each server can be online or offline and has various resources. Device42 displays all that data in real time. If a customer has downtime, we can tell what is happening within Device42 and other monitoring tools. We have hundreds of users. Some work directly with Device42, pulling information from the reports, but we also have some indirect users working with automations Device42 is running behind the scenes.
I used Device42 for security purposes during my internship over the summer. I was tasked with trying to figure out a way to manage and secure the assets that the company I was working for had. We noticed that most of them were actually not secure, and also found out that Device42 was not up-to-date either.
Device42 can be used for network discovery, migration, CMDB, and data center infrastructure management. It discovers your on-premise and cloud infrastructure. You can deploy Device42 on the cloud or on-premises. It's a Hyper-V or VMware virtual machine. Customers typically deploy it on VMware, but it can also be in AWS or Azure. You can put it wherever you want as long as you open the ports on your firewall. Customers deploy Device42 to discover their entire infrastructure. It can be based in one location or several. You have a primary appliance and remote collectors. If you've got multiple data centers, you can place a remote collector in each that talks back to the primary appliance. If you want, you can deploy the collectors to specific sites or areas of the network. It's entirely up to the customer.
It's our CMDB for the whole company.
We primarily use the solution for asset management and use inventory management and asset discovery quite frequently.
Device42 will be the single point of truth for our network, service, and device documentation. The first step is to put all data inside with the goal to discover all things automatically. We do have a few things we must fill in manually. The second step is to use this data and create automation. When we can do this, it will be a big step towards successfully automating our processes overall. Processes can be in connection with the driver ticketing system, the installation of new virtual machines in new containers to grab data automatically to ask the system what is free, determining what we can use, and also automatically returning data to Device42. We now have nine data centers in Device42. We have data centers in Germany, the US, Singapore, and Australia. The company creates software and sells those services. The software send mails, SMSs, and faxes globally. We host everything ourselves. We have security, network, and infrastructure teams, which are all in-house. Nothing is outside in the cloud. We can create everything that we need in short time and easily ourselves. I am using the latest version.
We have a pretty unique use case, one that isn't used by a lot of companies. We have Azure, AWS, as well as Google Compute Engine in the cloud. We want to have all of those in one central station. That's why we're using Device42, so that it can track all of our IPAM in one place. We have it on-prem in our data center.
The first use case is the most important. It is Application Dependency Mapping. We want to track what is dependent on what. We want to know when something goes down or a change is made. We are also trying to use it as a change management database for what hypervisor is in what rack which links over to what business application is running that uses what services and has what account. We have information scattered in a lot of different places. This seems to be a very nice solution for taking everything, integrating it together, and linking it all up. There seems to be a lot of automation available with our inventory. We have been putting a lot of work into getting our entire infrastructure into Device42 rolled out. However, we have had a lot going on recently because we're going through a merger and acquisition so this has been a bit of a chaotic time. So, we are trying to get everything smoothed out, put in, and figure out. It hasn't been too bad. Since we upgraded recently, we are probably using the latest version.
We use Device42 mostly for asset inventory because our compliance rules require us to know what devices we are using: the warranty for each device, when we install it, when we remove it — so full tracking of the device lifecycle. We use Device42 mostly for asset inventory, including physical pieces of hardware and virtual devices as well. We expected we would use a SaaS version but it was not possible, so we use the on-premise version. We have more than one instance of Device42. We have four implementations of it in our company. Each of them is dedicated to a single environment: government, our AWS environment, co-location, and corporate co-location. There is no possibility for each of these environments to speak with each other, so that's why we use four different Device42 instances in our company.
We are using it for our data center operations, to monitor the stack layers that we have. We are also using it for our procurement operations, taking orders and tracking deliveries. In addition, we use it for following up on contracts so that we make sure not to miss any renewal or cancellation of a contract.
Our goal for using the product is to be able to migrate apps to the cloud successfully. E.g., you can't move something if you don't know all the dependencies or all the bits and pieces that need to go with it. If you move something and forget, "Because it talks to this database," and no one realized, then it's going to fail. You will have downtime and have to move everything back. App dependency is the biggest part for us right now. That is the immediate need. I have been focused exclusively on bringing in data, connecting it and making sure all the servers and network devices are being scanned. I haven't spent any time trying to figure out how to get data out. We are on the newest version of the next-gen line.
We use it for asset tracking, cabinet modeling, data center modeling, and we use it for asset disposition and to keep track of our spare parts.
We mainly use it to keep an inventory of everything, because we've got 77 offices and data centers globally. We use it mainly to keep track of assets we have in cabinets and the like. Also, some of the other teams use it for the auto-discovery and license renewals. Device42 tells you when a license is about to expire on a server. I'm sure there are a lot more uses but because I work in data center management, and from my side we mainly use it just for inventory. We're aware of exactly what we have, where it is, whether it's powered on it, whether it's in service, etc.
In the beginning, we were looking to use it as an IPAM device but we saw all the benefits in having control of the assets, the racks, and how the physical servers are connected to the switches. We set up our data center with all the racks inside and all the devices inside the racks. So at first, we used it for IPAM, but after that we constructed the building with the rooms and the racks. So IT inventory is the second purpose of this tool. We use it to track how VLANs and our different virtual devices are connected and to inventory VMware and Xen virtual machines. But the main purpose is IPAM and inventory of the physical devices. In the case of networking devices, we are using SNMP, and with virtual devices we use an administrator-user to check different aspects of the ESXi in VMware. The solution itself is a virtual machine over a SAN server and it's running in our data center.
Our use case for Device42 is to capture all our infrastructure in a single tool. We need the ability to have that view of where our infrastructure is: servers, storage, network equipment, and applications sitting on top of servers. Our use case is to have that single pane for where all that is.
Device42 uses your infrastructure discovery and network device discovery to get information about your infrastructure CMDB. It uses this when you are migrating your on-prem servers to the cloud or VMware Cloud to public cloud. For our purposes, customers use it to discover their infrastructure, services, applications, features of those servers, CPU, memory, and RAM. All these details can be discovered in their infrastructure using Device42. Then, you can easily migrate to the cloud. We have used the solution in conjunction with our clients’ migration to the cloud. The view it provides of assets and application dependencies assists in getting things to work post migration because of Application Dependency Mapping. We can easily migrate the business and infrastructure applications, thus determining the other applications it is dependent on. This way we can easily predict how to migrate and the things that need to be done while migrating. We provide support for Device42 as a managed service provider. Currently, I have two customers: one is on Azure and the other is on VMware. I am using the latest version.
We wanted a rich database of all of our assets and multiple teams were keeping different Excel spreadsheets, etc. About two years ago, a consulting firm recommended Device42. We took a look at it and have been using it ever since. We collapsed a lot of information into it, then week by week more teams adopt it. We are using the latest version that they have out right now.
Our primary use case is to track all of our IT information in one spot. So instead of using spreadsheets and other tools, it's consolidated here for us.