Halo discovery and Virima: A powerful IT discovery duo
Table of Contents
- Halo asset discovery and its key capabilities
- Virima’s advanced IT asset discovery and its key capabilities
- Unlocking IT asset discovery with Halo ITSM and Virima: An integrated solution
- A powerful integration for IT discovery and management
Imagine peering into every corner of your IT ecosystem with crystal-clear clarity. No more hidden assets, no more outdated configurations—just seamless, real-time visibility across your hybrid environments. Gaps in asset visibility, outdated configuration data, and manual tracking can lead to inefficiencies, security risks, and compliance issues.
With Halo discovery, powered by Virima’s advanced IT asset discovery, your IT team can finally automate the impossible, and banish inefficiencies. It’s like having a superpower for managing your entire infrastructure, effortlessly.
Quick summary:
Virima’s IT asset discovery and ViVID™ integration with Halo ITSM deliver deep visibility into your IT environment. Further, it automates service mapping, simplifies asset management, and strengthens security while providing insights into business service dependencies and vulnerabilities.
Key benefits at a glance:
- Comprehensive asset discovery: Identifies all IT assets across hybrid environments using agentless and agent-based scanning.
- Automated service mapping: Provides near-real-time visualization of asset relationships and dependencies for better decision-making.
- Enhanced incident and change management: ViVID™ overlays ITSM data, aiding in risk assessment and root cause analysis.
Moreover, it enhances security and compliance, integrates with leading ITSM tools for unified asset visibility, and simplifies IT audits with accurate tracking and reporting. Read on to discover how Halo asset discovery and Virima work together to transform IT asset discovery and management.
Halo asset discovery and its key capabilities
Halo asset discovery is a comprehensive IT asset management solution designed to provide organizations with a clear and detailed view of their IT assets. It facilitates tracking and managing IT and non-IT assets. This also includes hardware, software, cloud services, and operational resources.
Key features of Halo discovery include:
- Comprehensive asset tracking: Manages IT and non-IT assets across various environments.
- Remote monitoring & management (RMM): Enables real-time oversight and proactive issue resolution.
- Configuration Management Database (CMDB): Provides a centralized repository for asset relationships and dependencies.
- Cost optimization: Helps reduce unnecessary expenditures by improving asset utilization.
- Risk mitigation: Identifies vulnerabilities and ensures compliance with IT policies.
Virima’s advanced IT asset discovery and its key capabilities
Virima’s IT asset discovery provides deep insights into IT assets with remarkable accuracy. Furthermore, it integrates with Virima CMDB and service mapping, thus, ensuring a comprehensive and visual CMDB.
Key features of Virima’s IT asset discovery include:
- Secure discovery
Virima’s platform, built on AWS, ensures secure multi-tenant data segregation. It also follows the RACI model for role-based access and encrypts asset credentials locally. - Discovery agent for Windows and Linux
For continuous monitoring, Virima’s discovery agent tracks network-connected devices, including remote PCs. It also supports software metering to optimize license management. - Vulnerability identification and prioritization
With built-in NIST NVD integration, Virima automatically detects vulnerabilities and prioritizes remediation based on asset criticality. - Comprehensive coverage
Virima discovers data center infrastructure, virtual assets, edge devices, and cloud resources, ensuring full visibility into IT environments. - Detailed asset insights
It provides device-specific hardware details, OS attributes, software versions, patches, and security certificates. As a result, it offers a complete view of IT assets.
The next section provides an in-depth discussion of Virima IT Discovery’s key capabilities.
Unlocking IT asset discovery with Halo ITSM and Virima: An integrated solution
When it comes to IT asset discovery, Virima offers an unparalleled depth of capabilities, making it the ideal choice for organizations looking to integrate with HaloITSM. The combination of Virima’s IT asset discovery and ViVID™ enables IT teams to seamlessly track, and manage assets. Let’s take a deep dive in now.
Enhancing IT visibility with continuous scanning
Virima and Halo discovery form a powerful combination for IT asset discovery and management. Virima’s flexible discovery methods ensure accurate asset tracking across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Its agentless discovery detects network-connected devices without installing software, simplifying large-scale deployments. For assets that require continuous monitoring, such as off-network devices, Virima’s agent-based discovery supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
When integrated with HaloITSM, this discovery data becomes even more valuable. Virima’s insights feed directly into HaloITSM’s asset and service management workflows.
Thus, enabling better decision-making and automated processes. IT teams gain near-real-time visibility into hardware, software, and cloud resources like AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines, and VPCs. This integration helps organizations improve IT governance, optimize costs, and enhance security with a unified view of their assets.
The discovered data is then automatically fed into HaloITSM’s centralized CMDB, creating a single source of truth for IT assets and their relationships. This also eliminates the need for manual imports and updates, ensuring that the CMDB remains accurate and trustworthy.
Transforming IT operations with automated service mapping
Service mapping is a game-changer for organizations looking to streamline their IT operations. The Virima integration with HaloITSM automates the service mapping process by dynamically generating visual representations of your IT environment.
Moreover, these maps provide valuable insights into business service dependencies, network topologies, and application interactions. With service mapping automation, HaloITSM teams can eliminate the guesswork. Furthermore, they can gain a clear understanding of how their infrastructure supports key business functions.
Visualizing IT asset relationships with ViVID™
A standout feature of Virima’s integration with Halo discovery is the Virima Visual Impact Display (ViVID™), which takes asset discovery to the next level. ViVID dynamically visualizes the relationships between assets, services, and dependencies. Additionally, it offers HaloITSM teams a clearer view of how their infrastructure operates.
(Source) ViVID enhances service maps by overlaying Halo discovery records, including open incidents and recent or planned changes.
This visualization is especially critical for incident resolution, change management, and vulnerability prioritization. Because it helps teams quickly understand the impact of changes or outages on their entire IT ecosystem.
Moreover, ViVID continuously updates the relationships between assets, applications, and business services. It also allows IT teams to make informed decisions about changes and incidents. For example, ViVID can help answer key questions like:
- What is the risk exposure of making this change?
- Which assets or services could be impacted by this open incident?
- Who are the stakeholders involved in this incident or change?
By overlaying incident and change data from Halo discovery, ViVID empowers IT teams to minimize the risks associated with changes and reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
NIST integration ensures cybersecurity and compliance
Virima’s IT discovery doesn’t stop at asset management—it also plays a vital role in cybersecurity. Virima integrates with the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). This further allows it to perform automatic checks for known vulnerabilities, including Common Platform Enumerations (CPEs) and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), within discovered assets.
This integration allows IT teams to prioritize remediation efforts based on asset criticality. Altogether, it ensures that the most important systems are addressed first.
Additionally, precise mapping of asset relationships strengthens security posture by identifying potential attack vectors and dependencies. Moreover, ViVID helps teams visualize how vulnerabilities might impact the overall IT environment. Thus, it makes it easier to implement strategic fixes that improve security while minimizing disruptions.
Simplifying IT asset management and audits
In addition to its discovery and CMDB capabilities, the integration between Virima and Halo discovery also enhances IT asset management (ITAM) processes. Virima’s automated asset discovery not only tracks hardware and software assets. It also gathers detailed information on configurations, relationships, and usage patterns.
With its granular business rule automation and features like Autonomic Social Discovery™, Virima continuously validates asset data and relationships. Consequently, it reduces the risk of errors and inconsistencies.
(Source) Virima’s Autonomic Social Discovery automates intelligence gathering, providing deeper insights into your IT asset inventory.
This data is often critical for managing assets throughout their lifecycle, from procurement to retirement. Moreover, the CMDB’s visualized format through ViVID™ enhances consumability. Thus, it makes it easier for IT teams to understand and act on asset relationships seamlessly.
Its built-in support for certificate management, software usage monitoring, and persistent configuration tracking helps IT teams address security risks proactively. This also ensures they can prepare for audits with ease.
Seamless integration with Halo discovery and beyond
Virima’s IT discovery is not just limited to HaloITSM. It further integrates seamlessly with a range of IT management tools and platforms, including ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and Ivanti/Cherwell. This broad compatibility ensures that organizations using diverse toolsets can still benefit from Virima’s discovery and visualization capabilities.
Virima integrates with hypervisors, network and storage devices, event and alert management tools like SolarWinds and LogicMonitor, etc. This level of integration makes it easier for IT teams to consolidate data from various sources into a unified view within HaloITSM.
(Source) Virima IT discovery seamlessly integrates with a wide range of IT management tools and platforms.
A powerful integration for IT discovery and management
The integration of Virima’s IT discovery with Halo discovery offers a comprehensive solution for managing their IT assets. By providing deep insights into hybrid IT environments, this integration helps IT teams streamline configuration management. It presents data in a visual, actionable format, thus, enhancing incident response and helping teams prioritize cybersecurity efforts.
Virima’s IT discovery tool offers flexible discovery options, built-in automation, and advanced visualization tools. These features seamlessly ensure that IT teams have the information they need to make informed decisions. They also help keep CMDBs accurate and up to date.
This partnership with Halo discovery is a game-changer for organizations. It helps them gain full visibility into their IT assets while simplifying IT operations. Ready to transform your IT asset management?
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