Build the Single Source of Truth with a Centralized ITAM Database using Rythium’s Agentless or Agent-based discovery.
Discover all assets – hardware, devices, software, usage patterns, licenses
Adheres to ISO19700 and ISO20770 standards
Rythium Discovery automates asset discovery to better gain visibility into hardware, software, and services in on-premise and multi-cloud environments. It provides the trusted foundation for building application maps that enable digital transformation to be more aware, secure, and cost-transparent.
Hardware Discovery
The Rythium Discovery solution provides you with full network autodiscovery for compute servers, end-points desktops & laptops, switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VLANS, subnets, hypervisors like VMware vSphere ESXi, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, AHV etc.
Software Discovery
The Rythium Discovery solution provides with in-depth software discovery on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac platforms.
Agentless discovery brings in agility and flexibility. Agentless discovery avoids the management complexity of permanent software installed on discoverable devices.
The agentless discovery module is knows as Rythium Discovery Satellites. It does not require the installation of client software on any of the devices or systems in the network. This makes it easier to implement, faster to discover, and extremely scalable from the smallest to the largest end-point populations.
All credentials and firewall rules are local to the customer and under customer’s complete control. This allows organizations to get
started very quickly with minimal effort to maintain.
Rythium Discovery Satellite has the following key attributes that are crucial in building a good asset inventory database:
| Key Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Native Deployment | Euladox does not depend on any 3rd party scanning software for collection of network inventory data. |
| Multi-protocol Discovery | Euladox scans and discovers all networked devices – computers, network printers, routers, switches, etc. |
| Multi-segment & Location Discovery | The discovery satellite works both in online and offline modes allowing discovery of every potential combination of network architectures. |
| Native Adaptors | Active Directory, VMware, Hyper V, Xen Server, OVM, Oracle Technology Products, IBM MQ, DB2, MS SQL Server. |
| Real Time Reporting | Discovery completed and error reports for monitoring and troubleshooting. |
| Troubleshooting | Tools for troubleshooting access issues |
The key protocols used for network scan and discovery are:
| Protocol | Details |
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| WMI | Windows Device Discovery |
| SSH | Linux & Unix Device Discovery |
| SNMP | Network Devices Discovery |
Apart from the above, Euladox uses specific adaptors for Oracle database, Oracle Middleware, IBM MQ, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, VMware vCenter etc.
Rythium Discovery Satellite has extensive features for agentless discovery as well as many specialized adapters for specific Softwares.
| Agentless Discovery Features | Specialized Adaptors |
|---|---|
| Ip Range Discovery | MS Windows Server |
| Active Directory Domain Discovery | MS SQL Server |
| Windows Workgroup Discovery | Oracle Database |
| SSH Discovery | Oracle Weblogic |
| SNMP Discovery | Oracle Middleware |
| Complete OID Scanning | Oracle E-Bussiness Suite |
| Vmware Host – VM Mapping | Java |
| Windows Event Log | IBM DB2 |
| Automated Warranty Check (Dell, HP, Lenovo) | IBM Websphere |
| Software Usage Metering | IBM MQ Series |
| Chrome OS | Quest Toad |
| Mac OS | Eclipse IDE |
The Rythium Discovery Agent is used mainly for scheduled asset discovery and application metering purposes. The agent has to be installed on every machine and will return the required data about:
Most inventory scanning software provide raw data with scant information about the servers and desktops. This does not help in understanding the attached software licensing potential and risks. Hence Euladox has taken a very different approach to asset recognition.
Euladox has a very extensive hardware catalogue and contains all servers (Intel, AMD & RISC) manufactured after 2001, all virtualization technologies and hypervisor versions and all Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris & HP-UX, MacOS versions.
This ensures error-less asset recognition leading to the capability of providing exact network asset distribution and software license deployed positions.
The ITAM database is a repository that is designed to track and report on the physical, financial & contractual data of IT Assets through its lifecycle from deployment to retiral.
The ITAM database has information on
The asset inventory database holds all the information of every single asset discovered in the network. Customers can view raw data of discovered devices or normalised information after asset recognition.
There are more than 50 reports and views to enable users to see specific information as desired. The system also offers multiple filters across all reports and views so that reports can be customised.
Rythium’s Euladox ITAM’s Asset repository is like a CMDB where ITAM data & Asset Service CI data intersect. It is a CMDB for the Asset CI.
The Rythium Asset CMDB has all the attributes needed to manage the IT Asset lifecycle as well as the Asset Service Lifecyle. It is more efficient as you need a single database to get Asset & CI data. This will benefit an organization because they would not have to purchase a separate software solution nor would they have to train employees how to manage an additional product.
Rythium ITAM combines data of both databases for the Asset CI.
The following table provides you a brief description of features needed in a CMDB and those found in an ITAM database. It also provides you with details of features built into Rythium ITAM.
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