uControlPassive network-flow discovery
Materialise assets and their real communication paths from NetFlow/IPFIX, no scan, no credentials.
Lansweeper is a strong network-discovery and asset-inventory tool. uControl Insights matches it on discovery and adds OT and passive-flow discovery, shadow-IP detection, service context, an AI layer and deeper asset intelligence, one platform, not just an inventory.
The capabilities uControl brings that Lansweeper doesn't, or only partly does.
Materialise assets and their real communication paths from NetFlow/IPFIX, no scan, no credentials.
Surface hosts that are live in traffic but never scanned, the blind spots inventory-only tools miss.
When a scan fails, AI explains the likely cause and the fix, in the UI and on Teams.
Cloud cost analysis alongside discovery, spot waste next to the assets driving it.
Flag network conversations a device has never had before, behavioural anomalies from flow.
White-label, multi-tenant delivery built for partners and MSPs.
Credit where it's due, Lansweeper leads or matches uControl in these areas.
Vulnerability and CVE risk scoring.
Mature bidirectional ITSM / CMDB synchronisation.
A broad, established integration marketplace.
Verdicts are by capability area, not feature-for-feature, depth varies within a tick.
| Capability | uControl Insights | Lansweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | ||
| Agentless network discovery (Windows / Linux / SNMP) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Endpoint agent (Windows / macOS) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud discovery — AWS / Azure | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud discovery — Google Cloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| OT / ICS device discovery | ✓ | ✓ |
| Active OT identity probes (Modbus / EtherNet-IP) | ✓ | ~ |
| Passive network-flow discovery (NetFlow / IPFIX) | ✓ | — |
| Shadow-IP / dark-space detection | ✓ | — |
| Nutanix Prism / Proxmox connectors | ✓ | ~ |
| IP address management (IPAM) | ~ | ~ |
| Data-centre infrastructure management (DCIM) | — | — |
| Asset inventory & CMDB | ||
| Unified asset inventory | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full ITIL CMDB (auditable CIs, change history) | ~ | ~ |
| Relationship / dependency graph | ✓ | ~ |
| Application dependency mapping | ~ | — |
| Service / business-service mapping | ~ | — |
| Topology map with live traffic edges | ✓ | — |
| Hardware asset management | ||
| Hardware inventory & lifecycle / EOL | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vendor warranty enrichment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assignment, contracts & document repository | ✓ | ~ |
| Purchase / procurement metadata | ✓ | ✓ |
| Software asset management | ||
| Software inventory & recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licence reconciliation (effective licence position) | ✓ | ~ |
| Usage-based licence reclaim | ✓ | ~ |
| Insights, risk & AI | ||
| Vulnerability / CVE risk (NIST NVD) | ~ | ✓ |
| AI natural-language assistant | ✓ | ~ |
| AI scan diagnosis & runbooks | ✓ | — |
| Cloud cost analytics | ✓ | — |
| Network-flow anomaly detection | ✓ | — |
| Certificate expiry monitoring | ✓ | ~ |
| Integrations & ITSM | ||
| Bidirectional ITSM / CMDB sync | ~ | ✓ |
| Integration breadth / marketplace | ~ | ✓ |
| HaloITSM integration | ✓ | ~ |
| REST API & data export | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams alerts & AI digest | ✓ | ~ |
| Admin, security & platform | ||
| SSO (SAML / OIDC / LDAP) + RBAC | ✓ | ✓ |
| Localised / multi-language UI | ✓ | ~ |
| On-prem + cloud + appliance deployment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosted / data sovereignty | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited user seats | ✓ | ✓ |
| White-label / partner delivery | ✓ | — |
| Lightweight / fast deploy (under a day) | ~ | ~ |
Competitor information is based on each vendor's publicly published product and pricing pages and is believed accurate at the time of writing. Capabilities change, check each vendor's current materials before making a purchasing decision. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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