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BDNA Discover
Introduction
To strategically manage your IT environment, you need to inventory all
the hardware and software on your network, not just Windows-based
devices. Leveraging its expansive library of discovery fingerprints, BDNA
Discover gives organizations complete visibility into their IT environments,
discovering and classifying a wide array of assets including servers, Linux
and Unix-based devices, devices without agents, and IP-enabled non-IT
devices like point-of-sale terminals, medical devices, and manufacturing
equipment. It also helps organizations spot devices brought into the
network through shadow IT and BYOD.
Non-intrusive and agentless, BDNA Discover requires no administrative
access, making it easy to leverage across any size organization. BDNA’s
unique application finger printing technology leverages the library of
technical and market research to precisely identify and classify software
assets from top vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, SAP,
and more. The comprehensive results provide the insight and intelligence
that underpin effective Asset Management, Software Asset Management,
License Compliance, Security, and IT GRC.
At a Glance
BDNA Discover and its library of
fingerprints deliver unprecedented
insights into the IT environment
with a patented non-intrusive
agentless technology that
identifies hardware and software
assets including those not covered
by traditional agent-based tools.
In addition, BDNA’s unique
fingerprinting technology provides
advanced application discovery
for top vendors like Oracle, IBM,
Microsoft, SAP, Adobe, and more.
BDNA Discover provides complete
visibility into the IT environment
to drive Asset Management, SAM,
License Compliance, Security and
IT GRC.
Key Benefits
Discover assets non-intrusively
without deploying agents
Coverage for Linux and Unix
based systems, servers, and
non-IT devices not covered by
agent-based tools
Visibility into assets brought
in by shadow IT, BYOD, and
consumerization
BDNA discovers assets in your IT environment that you
don’t already know about
How It Works
BDNA Discover discovers all IP-enabled hardware and software on the network, including
those that have no agents deployed on them and thus cannot be detected by agent-based
discovery tools. It normalizes the raw data collected by its library of fingerprints to the
BDNA Technopedia catalog and enriches it with the market intelligence captured within the
catalog. The data is then published to a BI front end and well documented schema where
users can build and view dashboards to analyze the data.
Accurate inventory for license
and regulatory compliance
Advanced application discovery
across top vendors including
IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle,
Adobe, and more
Stay on top of Oracle licensing
with Oracle LMS certified
discovery
Improve accuracy across Asset
Management, SAM, Security
and IT GRC
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BDNA Discover works on three levels:
• Level 1 - Requires no software agents or user or
administrative access. The scan returns a comprehensive
categorized list of all devices on the network for easy
identification of devices that need further discovery.
• Level 2 - Requires non-administrative access to devices
being scanned. Retrieves deeper discovery information
which can identify devices that require additional attention.
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Level 3 - Requires an application user account. Retrieves
deeper information such as enabled options and application
usage.
For advanced insight and precision into software assets, BDNA
Discover uses unique software fingerprinting technology that
includes more than 8000 fingerprints across 500 vendors,
including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Adobe, and others.
Raw discovery data is complex and unusable due to data
quality issues like inconsistent product naming and inaccurate
or missing metadata. BDNA Discover’s built-in normalization
capability cleanses the raw data and normalizes it to the BDNA
Technopedia Catalog to remove naming inconsistencies and data
inaccuracies. The data is then published to a lightweight BI front
end that allows users to build and view dashboards to analyze
the data.
With a complete view of every device and every software
package and version on the corporate network, organizations
can determine licensing positions, close security holes from
obsolete and outdated technology, and support IT GRC
initiatives including regulatory compliance requirements such as
PCI and HIPAA.
Agentless Discovery with Fingerprinting
for Advanced Application Discovery
How Is Discover used in an
Enterprise?
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BDNA Discover for the Enterprise
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Patented non-intrusive discovery engine
Discover any IP connected device
Support for all major Operating Systems
Discover virtualized Operating Systems
Fingerprinting for advanced application discovery
Lightweight reporting and analytics, simple export/publish
capabilities
Oracle LMS certified
BDNA Discover leverages product-specific and vendor-specific
intelligence unavailable from any other tool to create a highly
granular, actionable level of IT asset discovery. Its threelevel discovery process delivers both a broad overview of
the IT environment and the ability to drill down into selected
portions of the environment as necessary. The unique software
fingerprinting functionality provides advanced application
discovery by inspecting product-specific configuration files,
installation data, and other deep details. In particular, BDNA
Discover is Oracle License Management System (LMS) certified.
This guarantees it can discover data about Oracle products in
a manner compliant with Oracle’s own specifications, which
helps organizations better manage their Oracle licensing and be
prepared for an Oracle audit.
BDNA Discovery Levels
Level
1
2
3
Requires
IP Address Range
Non-administrative user access
Application User Account
Discovers
Servers, clients, network
equipment, IP telephony,
SAN, NAS, critical network
services, etc.
OS, machine and configuration information
like OS edition and patch level, model and
serial number, storage, peripherals, CPU,
RAM, HDD and list of installed applications
Application options and
usage (user counts, storage,
etc.)
Find Out More
For more information call 650-625-9530 or visit www.bdna.com to learn more about how BDNA can
transform your enterprise IT data.
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