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IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix) Asset Discovery

In organisations that have a large distributed enterprise, it is often an impossible task to keep track of all of your IP enabled IT assets. In some cases a significant number of a company’s IP enabled IT assets could be undocumented and not appear in any inventory databases or asset list, it is hard enough to keep track of all the assets that you do know about let alone find all the assets that you don’t know about. 

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix) has identified that getting visibility of the assets that you are currently not managing is as important as correctly managing the assets that you do know about, for this reason they have incorporated asset discovery tools into their solutions. The asset discovery solutions are capable of querying active directory to find computers that are not running the client services and deploying scanning points that periodically scan remote networks for unmanaged assets. Unmanaged assets can then be viewed through the console.

The following diagram shows a simplified version of the discovery on unmanaged assets.

Conclusion

Asset discovery is an invaluable tool in today’s distributed enterprises, it is essential that organisations are aware of all the assets they currently don’t manage and put action plans in place to rectify the situation.

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