How to Make the Best Out of Your IT Discovery Tool
IT discovery best practices are a set of structured methods for scanning, normalizing, and continuously maintaining visibility into every asset …
IT Discovery: A Complete Guide for IT Teams
Let’s begin with the three major concerns plaguing IT organizations today
- Evolving fast enough to keep up with the changing
IT Asset Onboarding Best Practices for Large Organizations
If you manage IT at scale, you know how this plays out. A new server arrives. Someone logs it in …
How to Discover and Map Pure Storage FlashArray in Your CMDB
TLDR
Pure Storage FlashArray arrays rarely appear in CMDBs because most discovery tools treat storage as out-of-scope. Automated SSH or …
Virima Database Discovery: Oracle, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, IIS & More
Virima 6.1.1 extends CMDB discovery beyond infrastructure hosts to the application stack running on them. This FAQ answers the most …
Is Your CMDB Really a Source of Truth?
TLDR: The CMDB has been called the source of truth for IT for decades. It is a reasonable aspiration, but …
How Apache, Tomcat, and IIS Belong in a Discovery-Sourced CMDB
Apache, Tomcat, and IIS instances are the invisible middle tier in most enterprise CMDBs. This guide explains why application server …
Oracle Database CMDB Discovery Guide: MySQL, Relationships & ViVID
Application performance drops without warning. Users report slowness. Dashboards show healthy servers and stable network traffic. Yet logs reveal repeated …
ServiceNow CMDB Accuracy: Why Native Discovery Falls Short at Scale
Most ServiceNow CMDB accuracy problems start in the discovery layer. Native ServiceNow Discovery was built for three use cases. Those …
