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Device42 Newbie
What do you like best about the product?
We are just getting started with using Device42 but so far it has been very easy to pick up and run with. We can give it entire subnets to scan and just sit back and watch it discover the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest complaint so far is how it seemingly randomly times out my login forcing me to log in again. I eventually found the setting to extend the default timeout so time will tell if that fixes the issue or not.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem we're trying to solve is application dependency. In our effort to move to the cloud we need to make sure no pieces of the puzzle get left behind.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to read through the documentation because it is pretty thorough and helpful.
Senior Linux Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Device 42 is by far the easiest to administer of all the CMDB asset tools that we have used. It user interface and robustness are unmatched and pricing is esxtremly attractive
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue i have is and it may be just with me as i find it difficult to find accurate information on the api. They may be do to the continued upgrade and improvments device 42 roles out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We didn't have a automatic way to inventory and place infrastructure in and out of service. This tool allowed for quick and easy discovery with excellent reporting that allowed us to save a ton of infrastructure costs based on system that were powered on but forgotten or under utiliezed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure to communicate expectations clearly to your team.
The solution for stop using excel sheets and documentation bad habits
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility to have in one tool IPAM, IT Asset Management and Datacenter Management
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe could have more widgets in the dashboard with all the information that it collects
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- IPAM
- Rack Management, specially if you are not physically in the DC, it will very helpful
- Asset Management
- Rack Management, specially if you are not physically in the DC, it will very helpful
- Asset Management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent product to replace the bad habit of using Excel sheets or shared documents that are hard to maintain,
If you have a large number of devices the search bar could help you a lot trying to find an specific hardware, by name, ip, mac address, etc,
The datacenter map including rack view is one of the best features of the tool,
If you have a large number of devices the search bar could help you a lot trying to find an specific hardware, by name, ip, mac address, etc,
The datacenter map including rack view is one of the best features of the tool,
Good DC asset inventory
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setup of VMware vcenter autodiscovery
What do you dislike about the product?
need a better understanding of Application Dependency Mapping features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asset & IP management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
ease to install and upgrade
Good asset management utility
Good asset management utility
Solid and Stable CMDB Software
What do you like best about the product?
Device 42 is the best CMDB Program in the market. Allows to monitor IT Assets and create reports and data models which are useful in decision making processes. Highly recommend.
What do you dislike about the product?
Depending on the IT structure of the company, the information of particular device is not available depending on the support DB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For companies in Chile and South America is imperative to asses their IT inventory and improve their inventory management process, We have support several companies addressing these needs and meeting their objectives.
My experience in Device 42
What do you like best about the product?
I like Device42 because of automating data center management with a variety of auto-discovery tools for network, physical, or virtual infrastructures and easily manage IT spare parts hardware inventory.
What do you dislike about the product?
Auto-discovery can be difficult to implement depending on the complexity of the environment but the addition of remote collectors has definitely helped.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All Equipment are discoverd via Device42.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Presentation materials for the marketing strategy.
Administrating device42 for the last 4 years as our private cloud main source of true
What do you like best about the product?
Device42 is very easy to install, backup or restore its data (if needed).
It provides an out of the box discovery according to pre-defined jobs (e.g. network, windows, ucsm's etc...)
It provides a very good Rest API which is very helpful for adding new fields as customized fields to device42 DB using a script that runs on the servers.
Device42 license cost is very low (comparing to other products).
It provides an out of the box discovery according to pre-defined jobs (e.g. network, windows, ucsm's etc...)
It provides a very good Rest API which is very helpful for adding new fields as customized fields to device42 DB using a script that runs on the servers.
Device42 license cost is very low (comparing to other products).
What do you dislike about the product?
device42 server is one appliance server and by that, it can get very loaded in case of too many API calls or too many activities on it at the same time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Device42 data is our private cloud data replication. the data we get via reports and/or via scripts (Rest API) is our source of truth to manage our cloud and a very real-time data.
that regards to capacity management, getting data per every aspect in our cloud servers and components.
that regards to capacity management, getting data per every aspect in our cloud servers and components.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very much recommending device42 as one tool to administrator data centers
User Friendly & Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
Device 42 is so for the easiest and quickest infrastructure discovery deployment software i have ever seen in discovery and configuration management space. Its cutting edge features and capabilities created to handle Infrastructure Planning and Migrations are awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
As there is continuous development going on to improve the capabilities of the tool, sometimes its getting difficult to understand the changes happening from version to version. I believe creating a release notes to its users for every release and with every download helps to understand the changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Device 42 for different types of client deployments (Tool based, Script based, Agent based) to collect the most accurate and complete Infrastructure data.
An impressive product with very good technical support
What do you like best about the product?
The product has a broad level of functionality in comparison to other CMDB implementations. However, the fact that the technical support was so efficient is hugely important given that tying in a CMDB to existing systems can be technically challenging.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be that I'm not familiar enough with the product, but initially my concern would be around the presentation of the information to less technically proficient personnel. In other words, content of the CMDB would likely be useful to business staff and I therefore need an acceptable way to visualise the information in manner that can be consumed by slightly less technically minded people.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am still doing a technical evaluation of the product but the primary benefit will be to understand the impact of change and outages on services. Having a centralised view of our infrastructure better positions us to do this.
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