Discovery

Who it's for

Value for every role.

CIO / IT Director

A board-ready, accurate view of the whole estate, the foundation under every risk, cost and investment decision.

IT Operations

One live inventory instead of stale spreadsheets — know exactly what's running and where, without chasing teams.

Security & Risk

Surface shadow-IP, unmanaged devices and the blind spots scanners miss, shrink the attack surface you can't see.

Service Desk

Answer “what is this, and who owns it?” in seconds, right in the middle of an incident.

Asset & Licensing

A trusted, de-duplicated asset base to size licences and plan hardware refresh against.

Finance

Evidence-based numbers for audit, cost control and cloud spend, decisions on fact, not estimates.

Four ways we discover

Complete coverage takes all four.

Each method reaches what the others can't, together they see every asset, on the network or off it, from the data centre to the kitchen table.

Agentless discovery

24 credential-light methods over SSH, WinRM, SNMP and native APIs read each system (read-only) server, network, storage and hypervisors, with nothing installed on the target.

API & cloud connectors

Direct connectors pull assets and configuration from Nutanix Prism, VMware vCenter, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure and GCP, full hierarchy in every region.

Agent-based discovery

A lightweight agent on Windows, macOS and Linux captures deep configuration, software and hardware state regardless of network connectivity.

Remote Worker Service

A deployable endpoint service for roaming and home-worker machines, captures device detail, connected peripherals and software usage, and checks in from anywhere.

The intelligence layer

Smarter than a port scan.

Smart Scan picks the right technique per target, so you get depth where you can authenticate, and coverage everywhere else.

Smart Scan auto-detect

One scan sweeps an IP range and auto-selects the right connector per host, Windows, Linux, ESXi, network device or cloud.

Credential-free recognition

Identifies devices with no credentials at all via mDNS, SSDP/UPnP, NetBIOS and public SNMP, so unmanaged kit still appears.

Passive flow discovery

Ingests NetFlow/IPFIX to materialise assets and their real communication paths with no active scan, ideal for sensitive OT.

OT / ICS discovery

Recognises PLC, RTU, HMI, SCADA and building controls; passive-first with opt-in, read-only active identity probes.

Supported platforms

What we discover, and how deep it goes.

Broad coverage with real depth where it counts. Nutanix is a standout: full agentless visibility through Prism.

Windows

Hardware, OS, patches, services, installed software, users and network interfaces via WinRM/WMI.

Linux & UNIX

Hardware, distribution, packages, processes, users and network config over SSH, including AIX and Solaris.

macOS

Hardware, OS, applications and usage via SSH or the endpoint agent.

VMware ESXi

Hosts 5.5 to 8.0 via SSH/esxcli or the API, hypervisor, guests, datastores and networking.

NutanixBig hitter

Deep, agentless discovery via the Prism REST API, one scan inventories cluster to nodes to VMs to storage, with full hardware, hypervisor, network and storage detail.

Proxmox

Cluster, nodes and virtual machines via the Proxmox API.

Network & SNMP

Switches, routers, firewalls and printers, model, firmware, interfaces and neighbours.

Cloud & OT

AWS, Azure and GCP resources and OT/ICS devices, each a first-class asset type.

Nutanix, done right

Deep Nutanix visibility, with no agent.

uControl discovers your Nutanix infrastructure through the Prism REST API, agentless and read-only. A single scan inventories the whole hierarchy, cluster to nodes, to virtual machines, to storage, with full hardware, hypervisor, networking and storage detail mapped into your estate and topology.

Agentless and read-only via the Prism REST API
Cluster to nodes to VMs to storage in one scan
Works for on-prem clusters and Nutanix Cloud
Mapped straight into inventory and topology

Discovery that finds its own blind spots

See what active scanning can't.

By reading NetFlow/IPFIX, uControl materialises assets and their communication paths without touching them, then flags the dark space that's live in traffic but was never scanned, and proposes the missed subnets as new targets.

Fully passive, no credentials, no active scan
Flags shadow-IP outside known target ranges
Proposes the missed subnets as scan targets
Ideal for segmented and OT networks

Keeps your system of record current

Discovery that feeds the tools you already run.

Discovery doesn't just fill uControl, it feeds HaloITSM and keeps its asset and configuration records current, so your service desk works from live data instead of a manual re-key.

Sync discovered assets and CIs into HaloITSM
Configuration and lifecycle detail kept up to date
No manual re-keying between systems
More ITSM and CMDB connectors on the roadmap

Questions

Frequently asked.

Is discovery agentless?

Yes, discovery is agentless and read-only, using SSH, WinRM, SNMP and cloud/hypervisor APIs. An optional endpoint agent adds off-network and usage data, but it isn't required to inventory the estate.

How deep is Nutanix discovery?

Agentless via the Prism REST API: a single scan inventories cluster to nodes to VMs to storage, with full hardware, hypervisor, networking and storage detail mapped into inventory and topology, on-prem and Nutanix Cloud.

Which operating systems and platforms are supported?

Windows, Linux/UNIX (including AIX and Solaris), macOS, VMware ESXi 5.5 to 8.0, Nutanix, Proxmox, SNMP network devices, AWS/Azure/GCP and OT/ICS devices, over 40 asset types.

Can it find devices we don't know about?

Yes, passive NetFlow analysis surfaces shadow-IP hosts that are live in traffic but never scanned, and credential-free recognition identifies unmanaged kit.

Will discovery disrupt sensitive systems?

No. It's read-only and passive-first. OT identity probes are opt-in and read-only, and passive flow discovery needs no interaction with the device at all.

Know what you have, everywhere.