What is Device42?
Device42 is the most comprehensive agentless discovery system for Hybrid IT available today. Device42 can continuously discover, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, providing accurate views of your IT ecosystem. Device42 intelligently groups discovered workloads by application affinities, dramatically reducing the effort required to create move groups, capturing all communications. Customers in more than 60 countries including Global 2000 clients and Systems Integrators use these capabilities as they manage and modernize their IT infrastructure and application landscapes and adopt DevOps practices.
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Device42 Reviews (3)
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Review Summary
Generated using AI from real user reviews
Device42 earns consistent praise as a comprehensive inventory management tool that delivers on core functionality, though setup requires significant effort.
Users highlight the strength of automated device discovery and an intuitive interface that tracks hardware, circuits, racks, and vendor information across diverse infrastructure. The appliance format and responsive customer support are genuine differentiators. One reviewer relies on it for nearly all inventory needs—servers, switches, PDUs, and secrets management—and considers it indispensable.
The main friction points centre on implementation burden. IP address management and device information organisation can become unwieldy during setup, demanding substantial upfront work to avoid chaos. Some features fall short: UCS server autodiscovery is unsupported, Circuit LAG functionality doesn't work as expected, and users want additions like API token authentication instead of username/password credentials.
In short, Device42 suits organisations with the resources to configure it properly and willing to commit to ongoing data hygiene. It's not a plug-and-play solution, but reviewers who invested the time consider it worth the effort.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
“Pros: It allows you to keep trace of all the…”
Pros: It allows you to keep trace of all the device, hardware, using SNMP. We could save all the circuit and vendor information all as well as racks information. Cons: IP address could get a bit messy. Device information could get a bit overwhelming. So setting it up and get it up and going does require quite a bit of work. Circuit LAG doesn't really work. Comments (Benefits): Overall, this is a good product. It does need a lot of attention to get it setup.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
“Pros: Autodiscovery of devices and simple and intuitive user interface…”
Pros: Autodiscovery of devices and simple and intuitive user interface Cons: No support to auto discover ucs servers Comments (Benefits): excellent
★★★★★
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
“Pros: Device42 has a very comprehensive set of features. All…”
Pros: Device42 has a very comprehensive set of features. All aspects of your inventory can be tracked, most things are first-class citizens, and can be related to one another. I like the fact that it's an appliance. Their support is excellent - you can tell that they put customers first. Cons: I have a few feature requests that I'd like to see some movement on. One of the most important ones, for us, is API tokens (instead of username/password). Comments (Benefits): We use Device42 for literally everything: servers, switches, PDUs, secrets, etc. I couldn't imagine not having it.
