IT asset management - Process
Discovery
(IT assets)
Automatically finding the devices, software and services connected to an organisation’s network
What's it for?
Finds devices, software and online services automatically so an organisation knows what technology it actually has.
For example…
A nightly discovery scan finds a new virtual server someone stood up without registering it
Discovery software scans the network and finds several unmanaged laptops and an old server that are missing from the asset register
Think of it like…
Metal detector on a beach: it reveals what is buried that the paper map never listed