Track 2: Discovery scenarios

In a secure environment, devices do not expose their software and hardware details without valid access credentials. This set of videos explains how to configure JDisc Discovery in order to get the best results from your devices.

JDisc Discovery requires administrative access to Windows computers in order to obtain the full device details. There are three ways to configure access credentials:

1. Define access credentials for Active Directory organizational units
2. Define access credentials for Windows domains or workgroups
3. Define access credentials for a single device

For Unix computers, a user name and password or SSH Key are required to login via telnet or SSH. Some commands require root permissions.

The following videos explain how to configure access credentials for the different scenarios.

Configure access credentials for Active Directory OUs

This video explains how to document your VMware environment including vCenter, ESX servers and virtual machines.

This video explains how to discover Windows computers correctly and how to define access credentials in order to identify Windows computers within the network.

This video explains how to scan databases with its details.

This video explains how to scan support entitlement and warranty information.

This video explains how to check whether you have discovered all computers which are defined within Microsoft’s Active Directory.