Optimized Halo asset management with Virima IT discovery

Table of Contents

• Quick summary:
• Key benefits at a glance:
• Building the foundation: Why IT asset discovery matters for IT asset management
• Optimized Halo asset management with Virima IT discovery
  • Enhancing visibility through advanced discovery methods
  • Turning raw data into action: Virima to HaloITSM CMDB
  • Service Mapping: Connecting assets to business outcomes
  • Visualizing asset relationships with ViVID™
  • Improving security and compliance with NIST vulnerability integration
  • Simplifying audit readiness and lifecycle management
  • HaloITSM-centric, but not limited to it
• Virima discovery is the missing piece for Halo optimization

Efficient IT asset management starts with accurate and timely visibility into your organization’s hardware and software inventory. HaloITSM, known for its comprehensive IT service management platform, also offers robust Halo asset management features. These features allow teams to track assets throughout their lifecycle, from procurement to retirement. It also helps IT departments maintain compliance, optimize resource allocation, and ensure operational efficiency.

However, for asset management to deliver real value, the underlying asset data must be both complete and continuously updated. That’s where Virima’s IT discovery comes in. By integrating Virima with HaloITSM, organizations access automated, near-real-time asset discovery across all environments. Moreover, this significantly expands the visibility and accuracy of the Halo asset management module.

Quick summary:

Virima optimizes Halo asset management by automating IT discovery and service mapping, ensuring HaloITSM operates with accurate data. This powerful integration further improves CMDB accuracy, streamlines asset tracking, and enhances visibility across hybrid environments. ViVID™ adds interactive visualizations, thus, helping Halo ITSM teams assess risks, and respond to incidents faster.

With built-in NIST vulnerability data, Virima boosts security and intelligence in HaloITSM’s asset management. It also supports audit readiness, making HaloITSM more efficient and compliant with industry standards.

Key benefits at a glance:

• Accurate, automated asset inventory

Virima’s IT discovery ensures all assets are continuously identified and cataloged in HaloITSM’s CMDB.

• Enhanced IT visibility with ViVID™

ViVID™ visualizes asset relationships, service dependencies, and incident links. It also helps HaloITSM users understand infrastructure impact and streamline issue resolution.

• Near-real-time visibility across the IT environment

 With near-real-time updates, IT teams can often confidently monitor asset changes and relationships. As a result, it reduces blind spots and outdated records.

• Improved IT operations through reliable data

Accurate discovery feeds into Halo’s ITSM processes, enhancing the efficiency of incident, problem, and change management.

Building the foundation: Why IT asset discovery matters for IT asset management

Effective IT asset management begins with knowing exactly what you have, where it is, and how it’s being used. This is where IT discovery comes in. It lays the groundwork by identifying and cataloging every asset within your IT environment. This also includes assets on-premises, in the cloud, or as part of a hybrid infrastructure.

Accurate asset discovery ensures every device, application, and configuration is found. Without this, visibility also becomes a challenge. Moreover, IT teams may rely on assumptions or outdated records, leading to misallocated resources and rising costs. This lack of accuracy further increases potential security risks across your infrastructure.

In addition to this, incomplete or outdated asset data creates several issues for IT teams. It can also cause non-compliance during audits and leave systems open to unpatched vulnerabilities. When assets are retired, moved, or reused without tracking, data gaps appear. Altogether, these gaps lower the reliability of your CMDB and Halo asset management workflows.

Virima addresses these challenges with continuous, automated IT asset discovery. It captures accurate details across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. As a result, HaloITSM receives a current and complete infrastructure view—improving accuracy and decision-making.

Optimized Halo asset management with Virima IT discovery

Efficient IT asset management starts with a clear understanding of your IT environment. For organizations using HaloITSM, this begins with accurate and automated asset discovery. That’s where Virima delivers unmatched value. 

By integrating Virima’s IT discovery with Halo asset management, you gain near real-time visibility into assets. This reduces the need for manual data collection and helps maintain a reliable configuration management database. The result? A more secure, cost-effective, and responsive IT operation.

Let’s explore how Virima discovery enhances Halo asset management and drives optimization across the board.

Enhancing visibility through advanced discovery methods

Virima provides both agentless and agent-based discovery to suit your infrastructure needs:

• Agentless discovery: Identifies network-connected devices without installing software. Ideal for fast, large-scale scans across enterprise networks.
• Agent-based discovery: Tracks off-network and remote assets, including Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. Consequently, it ensures you never lose sight of critical endpoints.

Once discovered, asset data flows seamlessly into the Halo asset management module. Halo discovery continuously monitors and keeps hardware, software, and cloud resources up to date. This also covers environments like AWS EC2, Azure VMs, and virtual systems. As a result, IT teams get a unified and accurate asset inventory.

Turning raw data into action: Virima to HaloITSM CMDB

Halo discovery becomes powerful when it populates a centralized, dynamic CMDB. Virima does exactly that. By automatically pushing discovery data into HaloITSM, it builds a trusted configuration database without requiring manual input.

This integration not only eliminates the risk of human error but also ensures that the CMDB remains current. Whether it’s a newly provisioned virtual machine or a retired server, updates are handled in near-real-time.

With a reliable CMDB in place, Halo discovery users gain better visibility into their IT assets. This visibility helps streamline asset lifecycle management and ensures accurate tracking from procurement to retirement. It also enables smarter purchasing decisions based on near-real-time asset data. 

Service Mapping: Connecting assets to business outcomes

Knowing what assets exist is important—but understanding how they support services is essential. This is where Virima’s automated service mapping elevates Halo asset management functionality.

Virima automatically discovers relationships between assets, applications, and services, creating dynamic service maps. These maps visually depict:

• Application and infrastructure dependencies.
• Network topology and flow.
• Business service support structures.

When integrated with Halo discovery, these insights help IT teams plan better, troubleshoot faster, and reduce service downtime. It removes the guesswork from change planning and allows support teams to understand the business impact of incidents.

Visualizing asset relationships with ViVID™

At the heart of this integration lies ViVID™ (Virima Visual Impact Display). It is a feature that brings IT discovery data to life.

ViVID™ offers interactive visualizations of assets and their relationships. What makes it powerful for Halo users is its ability to overlay discovery data with other insights. It combines near-real-time incident, change, and vulnerability data from Halo discovery for better visibility. 

This enables IT teams to:

• Assess the potential impact of planned changes.
• Prioritize incident resolution based on affected services.
• Identify the root cause of recurring issues.
• Determine stakeholder involvement quickly.

With ViVID, Halo users get more than static reports. They also get a real-time, visual understanding of how infrastructure decisions impact service delivery.

Improving security and compliance with NIST vulnerability integration

Security and asset management go hand in hand. Virima integrates with the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to identify known vulnerabilities within your discovered assets.

By correlating asset data with CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) and CPEs (Common Platform Enumerations), Virima helps Halo ITSM users:

• Identify vulnerable systems instantly.
• Prioritize remediation based on business criticality.
• Visualize potential attack paths using ViVID™.

This proactive approach strengthens IT governance and ensures that compliance audits don’t catch your team off guard.

Simplifying audit readiness and lifecycle management

Asset audits can be time-consuming and complex, especially when records are incomplete or inconsistent. With Virima’s discovery feeding into the Halo asset management platform, audits become easier and faster.

Virima tracks more than just asset presence—it captures configuration details, usage patterns, and interdependencies. Features like Autonomic Social Discovery™ go a step further by automatically validating and updating asset relationships.

This ensures that asset records remain clean, accurate, and also ready for internal reviews or third-party audits. From procurement to decommissioning, Virima significantly supports every stage of asset lifecycle management.

HaloITSM-centric, but not limited to it

While this integration focuses on Halo, Virima’s discovery engine is highly versatile. It also supports ITSM platforms like ServiceNow, Ivanti, and Jira Service Management.

This means even in diverse IT environments, HaloITSM users can combine discovery data from many sources. Overall, the result is a unified IT management experience that’s powered by Virima.

Virima discovery is the missing piece for Halo optimization

Optimizing asset management in HaloITSM starts with trustworthy data—and Virima delivers just that. Its discovery engine automates the process of identifying, updating, and managing IT assets. Further, when combined with ViVID™ and service mapping, it transforms Halo asset management from reactive to proactive.

If you want to get the most from HaloITSM, consider pairing it with Virima’s discovery features. Ready to optimize your Halo asset management? Explore how Virima can help by requesting a demo today.