Can autoAsset discover IPX, DECnet and Appletalk devices?
Yes, if they support IP. Otherwise not, as the discovery process is solely IP-based. Alternatively you can use the autoAnalyzer Consultancy Kit, which has a passive discovery mechanism that will show all active stations, regardless of the network architecture used in its Segment Map display. This means deploying an autoAnalyzer Consultancy Kit to monitor the switch/segment concerned. Can I easily identify the unmanaged sectors of the network? Yes. The autoAsset Summary Report will provide a discovery rating and information on the device response, i.e., will show if information is obtained from:- an SNMP response, a WMI response, a NetBios response or if device is known only because it responded to a Ping or was in an ARP table. Excerpt from an example Summary Report Can I use autoAsset to track changes between different discovery runs? The HTML Reports produced include an “Advanced report” called “Discovery History”. This report highlights the devices that have been added and removed s
