Discovery Score Improvements and more in v16.15.00

Discovery Score Improvements

Device42 has refactored our Discovery Scores to more accurately reflect what Device42 does during discovery. With this release, when Device42 is communicating with an API rather than an individual endpoint (e.g., a virtual machine), Device42 is now creating an API Manager discovery score record to report success or failures against the API endpoint directly. Devices returned by the API will then generate individual discovery score records.

Additionally, for cloud discoveries such as AWS, Device42 may create a discovery score per region so that we can better track errors per region. Our improved Discovery Scores have been added for most discoveries, including:

Cloud discovery
UCS/ACI/Load Balancer
IPMI/Redfish
DNS
Certificates
Several Hypervisor/Window/*nix subtypes

The Discovery Score page also now includes a column for Other to rate the success of discovery functions that don’t fall into the four existing categories (basic, software, services, applications). This may account for API calls, for example. This number typically represents how many actions we took and how many of them were successful or returned data. This number has no correlation to how many devices or records were created, but rather a generic measure of all the steps Device took to gather information.

The progress section of each supported discovery has been centralized and redone to show more consistent progress. In addition, the objects-added count has been converted to a hyperlink to quickly show all the discovery scores where objects were added to the system.