Hi everyone!
Lansweeper is delighted to announce the availability of its new Network Discovery in your Lansweeper Site. Discover more details of your assets remotely with Network Discovery, now available on Windows, Linux and macOS with auto update on all platforms.
How to access (Full) Network Discovery in your Lansweeper Site
A brief explanation
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Learn how to install/deploy Network Discovery here.
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If you chose to link your Network Discovery with your Lansweeper Site, it will be shown in Scanning > Discovery systems.
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To see the assets your Network Discovery brought in, you can check Inventory > All assets. You can also use Inventory > Installations > %Name of the Network Discovery Hub% to filter on the assets of a specific installation. Some data might still be missing we’re continuously mapping and expanding our global data model.
Product comparison
Lansweeper Network Discovery vs Lansweeper On-premises and OT Discovery
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Network Discovery |
Lansweeper On-premises |
OT Discovery |
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Summary
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Discover all IT assets in your network. OT discovery will be added to the same installer/package later on
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Discover all IT assets in your network
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Discover all OT assets in your network
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Asset reach
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Tracks both the machine running Network Discovery and discovers IT (and OT) assets remotely
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Tracks both the machine running Network Discovery and discovers IT assets remotely
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Tracks both the machine running Network Discovery and discovers OT assets remotely
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Asset data
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Expanded default IT (and later OT) discovery data set (extra data like user info on macOS)
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Default IT discovery data set
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Default OT discovery data set
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Credentials
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Requires credentials to get all asset details remotely. Can recognize assets without credential though
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Requires credentials to get all asset details remotely. Can recognize assets without credential though
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Requires credentials to get all asset details remotely. Can recognize assets without credential though
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Network access
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Requires specific OT ports to be open on the assets to discover.
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To sync with your Lansweeper Site, HTTP2 proxy is not supported
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Auto update
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Yes, on Windows, Linux and macOS
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No, manual update
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Yes, on Windows, Linux and macOS
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Vulnerability risks
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Built on .NET 6.0 with a reduced vulnerability risk in comparison to .NET FW 4.8
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Built on .NET FW 4.8 with a higher vulnerability risk in comparison to .NET 6.0
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Built on .NET 6.0 with a reduced vulnerability risk in comparison to .NET FW 4.8
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Capabilities
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Current Discovery:
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Active Directory (On-Premises)
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Asset radar/Network visibility (managed per group of sensors)
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Auto update of all discovery systems is optional on all supported operating systems (managed per group of systems)
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Credential free and credential based
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FQDN
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Hostname
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Hyper-V
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Instant local discovery without installations using IT Agent Portable
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Inventory destination: Cloud only (LS Site)
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IPv4/6 address
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IPv4/6 range (CIDR and start/end)
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IPv4/6 range exclusions
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Issues during discovery
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SCCM
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Schedules grouped per set of targets using Discovery actions
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User data on Windows, Linux and macOS related with data from (On Premises) AD, Azure AD, Intune and MS365
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Windows, Linux and macOS full data discovery from Windows, Linux and macOS. When Network Discovery runs on Linux, remote Windows discovery is limited to CDR only as full data discovery does not work yet (will also require WinRM to be enabled)
Current Inventory:
Will be added:
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Citrix
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Global inventory exclusions
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Import and export discovery actions/credentials
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Link with external credential vaults
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Migration from LS On Premise to LS Network Discovery
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Reconciliation extended to also include LS On Premise
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VMware ESXi and vCenter
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Windows, Linux and macOS full data discovery from Windows, Linux and macOS, including remote full data Windows discovery from Linux.
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Current Scanning:
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Active Directory (On-Premises)
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Asset radar/Network visibility (managed per scanner)
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Auto update of LsAgent Windows only is optional
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Credential free and credential based
- Custom discovery using OID, MIB, file and registry scanning
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Hyper-V
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Instant local discovery without installations using IT Agent Portable
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Inventory destination: On Prem and LS Site
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Issues during scanning
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IPv4/6 address
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IPv4/6 range (start/end)
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IPv4/6 range exclusions
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SCCM
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Schedule per target
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User data on Windows and Linux related with data from (On Premises) AD, Azure AD and MS365
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Windows, Linux and macOS full data discovery from Windows only.
Current Inventory:
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Clean up rules
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Global inventory exclusions
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Reconciliation between other LS On Premise installations only
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Solve duplicate issues per issue
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Same as Network Discovery where applicable to OT
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Lansweeper Network Discovery vs Lansweeper IT Agent (Portable) Discovery
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Summary
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Discover all IT (and later OT) assets in your network
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Get all details of the computers you know that have IT Agent Discovery installed and running as a background service or daemon.
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Planned, not available yet. Get all details of the computers on which you run IT Agent as a foreground application. Ideal to be included in a logon script
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Asset reach
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Tracks both the machine running Network Discovery and discovers IT (and later OT) assets remotely
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Local computer tracking where the IT Agent Discovery is running
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Local computer tracking where the IT Agent Discovery is running
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Credentials
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Requires credentials to get all asset details remotely
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Does not require credentials
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Does not require credentials
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Network access
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Requires specific ports to be open on the assets to discover. See Ports scanned or used by Lansweeper
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Few connectivity requirements. See Install IT Agent
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A connection to a Lansweeper Network Discovery - Hub component or a location to store the discovery result file in, for later import.
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Kind regards,
Gilian De Raes
Product Manager | Lansweeper
