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When nothing less than total visibility of the IT estate will do, you need Centennial Discovery to dynamically track all IT assets deployed across the organization.

From the minute you deploy the first client agent, Discovery’s patent-pending technology goes to work immediately, providing you with a complete picture of all the hardware and software on the network – regardless of location or platform.

Centennial Discovery provides dynamically-updated asset information critical to:

Inventory & Auditing

Automatically find and track all IT assets such as PCs, servers, printers, switches and more.

Software Asset Management

Audit all applications installed on PCs and servers. Track software usage, and patch status


Security

Monitor network vulnerabilities, greynets and unwanted files on the network.

...and much more

Ensure compliance with policies regarding computer use, purchasing and contracts management

Whether the aim is to take control of software licensing, drive down IT costs or ensure that projects are brought in on time and under budget, Discovery provides a baseline of dynamically-updated asset information across the entire network.

Why Centennial Discovery?

No other IT audit solution offers the breadth and depth of auditing features required maintain full visibility and control of the network:

100% visibility – discover all IP-addressable hardware on the network, including PCs, servers, switches, network printers and other devices

Network visualization - graphically map the network to understand the distribution and dependency of IT assets

Dynamic – know about changes to the network as they happen, without the need for scheduled audits

Multi-platform – track hardware and software across all major enterprise platforms, including Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OSX and AIX

Remote auditing – keep tabs on all IT assets anywhere in the organization, whether in an office or remotely-connected to the network

Collaboration working - share audit information with multiple colleagues and create personalized web-based views of key reports



Features

Client Operating Systems

Microsoft

  • Apple

  • Linux/Unix

  • Terminal Services

  • Microsoft

    • Windows XP up to SP2 + updates on x86 and x64

    • Windows Vista x86 and x64

    • Windows 98SE + updates

    • Windows ME + updates

    • Windows 2000 Professional to SP4 + updates

    • Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server and DataCenter Server to SP4 + updates

    • Windows 2000 Small Business Server Premium Edition to SP4 + updates

    • Windows 2003 Server Standard and Enterprise to SP1 + updates, Release 2, and SP2 + updates

    • Windows 2003 Small Business Server Premium Edition to SP1 + updates, Release 2 and SP2 + updates

    Apple

    • Mac OS X 10.3.9

    • 10.4.x and 10.4.x Server on PowerPC and Intel

    Linux/Unix

    • Red Hat Linux 9.0 on Intel

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3 and 4

    • SUSE Linux 9.3, 10.0 and 10.2 on x86

    • HP-UX 11i v1 on PA-RISC

    • Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9) and Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) releases up to and including 11/06

    • IBM AIX 5L v5.3 on POWER

    Terminal Services
    • Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services

      Citrix Metaframe XP, Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5

    Minimum Configuration Guidelines for Centennial Discovery

    Server Specification

    Centennial Discovery Server also requires Microsoft MDAC 2.8 (shipped with full version of Centennial Discovery)

    * If you are upgrading from a previous version of Discovery to Centennial Discovery you will require additional disk space. Please check your database size before upgrading. MSDE SQL 2000 Server has a 2GB database size limit and the upgrade process needs 3 times of the original database size. See 'Minimum System Requirements' in the 'Upgrading to Discovery' document.

    † For optimum performance on larger systems, please contact your partner for a personalized recommendation.

    In addition, if a pre-4.52 installation is currently installed on a Domain Controller, the installation will have to be moved as the user required for secure communication cannot be created on a Domain Controller. This is because a Domain Controller does not permit local users to be created. A document on moving a Discovery server is available from the Centennial Support Knowledge Base. (http://support.centennial.co.uk)

    Discovery 2006 Administration Control Center

    All language versions require Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Professional or Windows 2003 SP1.

    Server Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server, DataCenter Server and Small Business Server SP4 + updates Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard, Server Enterprise and Small Business Server Premium Edition SP1 + updates IIS 5 or 6 is required for secure data transfer.

    LANProbe Requirements

    LANProbe operates over an IPv4 ethernet network on x86 installations of Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003

    Network Environments

    TCP/IPv4

    Secure Communication

    Public/Private key encryption using HTTP over TCP/IP

    Supported Databases

    Discovery 2006 may be used in conjunction with either Microsoft SQL 2000 (MSDE, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and 64-bit for Itanium Edition) or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ( Express, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition).

    In the event of using SQL 2000, Centennial advise that the appropriate MS SQL 2000 is on a Per Processor basis. A Processor license includes access for an unlimited number of devices or users to connect from either inside the corporate LAN or WAN or outside the firewall. For further details the Microsoft website carries current information about licensing options.

    Centennial Discovery  Web Edition

    Supported platform and system requirements for Centennial Discovery Web Edition are the same as for Centennial Discovery with the following additions:

    Centennial Discovery Web Edition Server

    Microsoft IIS5, IIS6
    MS.NET Framework Framework 1.1
    (shipped with full version of Discovery 2006)

    Supported Browsers

    The Discovery.Dashboard web interface is designed to be W3C compliant.  It is currently tested against the following browsers:
    Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 - 7
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 2.0

    Requirements

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