This doesn't seem to fit in any other forum, because it's not really security related, so I figured this is the best place to post it.



I was wondering what you guys used for auto discovery of your enterprise, both LAN and WAN.

I walked in to this network completely blind, and the documentation is atrocious here, so I'm plowing my way through finding what is really on our network. My job is to secure this thing, but not knowing what is REALLY out there makes my job almost impossible.

I have looked at a couple of different applications out there, but I'm really wanting something that doesn't require me to install an agent on any machine because if I had to do that then I would already know what's out there

Right now I have tried Network View, and Ecora software. Neither of which do a great job of what I'm wanting. The network view software is nice, but doesn't map it very well... and didn't discover a lot of stuff that I knew was really out there. The Ecora software seems rather kludgey to me, and not exactly intuitive. Plus there is the fact that I have to download about 5 different pieces of software to discover stuff that's out here. I have also requested a copy of Unicenter TNG, but that may take a few days as the download script that CA uses is busted and won't let me download the eval.

I have a couple of sniffers at work watching my network, but that's really not going to tell me what I need to see.


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BTW, there is more than just windows machines on my network, so stuff like DCEtest won't do everything I need. I'm looking for something that will tell me everything that is on my network, including WinX, *Nix, and routers.... along with firewalls hardware/software.
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So what do you folks use on your networks? What have you used and found to be lacking? Is there ANYTHING out there that will do what I need it to do, or is that just asking too much?




El Diablo