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 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
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Network Discovery |
Lansweeper On-premises |
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Summary
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Discover all IT and OT assets in your network and access them in a cloud based inventory in your Lansweeper Site.
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Discover all IT assets in your network and access them in an on- premises based inventory, with an optional extended cloud based inventory in your Lansweeper Site.
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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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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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Asset inventory
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Located in Cloud via Lansweeper Site (mandatory).
Discovery results are stored in a cache in the hub which sends these to your Lansweeper Site where they are converted into inventory assets.
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Located in on-premises and optionally via Lansweeper Site.
Inventory assets are saved in an on-premises SQL database, optionally synced by the sync server to your Lansweeper Site for cloud based access.
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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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Network access
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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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Vulnerability risks
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Built on .NET 8.0 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 8.0
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Depending on your situation and your needs, you may want to install a specific discovery system, or perhaps a combination of multiple discovery systems.
For a full comparison of their capabilities, check out Comparing Lansweeper Sites and Lansweeper On-premises, which provides more information to aid you in your decision.
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
