IT Asset and Inventory Management, complete Rack diagrams and better auto-discovery with v3.1.1

Hardware models now have a new attribute "depth" and if you can choose whether it is full depth or half depth. While adding devices to rack, it would now allow you to add back to back devices for the same slot.

Discussed extensively in earlier blog posts, you can now auto-assign asset numbers and print customizable QR codes for asset and inventory management.

Scan QR codes and perform basic inventory operations using mobile devices.

Centrally manage your contracts and individual purchases as well. Add devices, assets to contracts and easily see what contract, purchase is expiring etc. More details in an earlier post regarding asset and inventory management.

Ability to record PDU/CDU ports. See port connectivity from pdu level as well from device level.

No need to add dummy devices anymore to represent patch panels, filter panels etc. Create assets in simple steps to add to the rack for display and U availability.

Visual representation of PDUs in or around the rack. Now visually represent PDUs on top, on sides or mounted in the rack.

Easily import racked devices information using excel sheets.

For all newly added, discovered or imported hardware models, you can edit the type, choose size and other properties on a single page for all uncategorized hardware models. This would categorize the related devices automatically.

On popular demand, ability to add laptops, workstations, network printers etc. in a new device type "other". You can create sub-categories as desired.

in addition to managing other device types, you can also add all types of non-IP based assets like modems, projectors, software(Even coffee machines) etc. Add your own categories and centrally manage all your assets. Non-IP based assets don't count towards licenses.

Manage complete lifecycle for devices and assets. When was it purchased, installed, inventoried etc. Which asset is checked out to which user etc.

Easy management for all your hardware components. See how many are in use and which devices are using it. Discussed in an earlier blog post : IT hardware parts inventory management.

Define custom fields and clickable urls for the devices.

Know who accessed what password when(even viewing password is now logged). Also better audit logs with addition of object representation column in the audit log.

GET API to get basic device details from the device42 appliance. Get location and support info with serial #, asset # info etc. via GET request for any given device.

Now easily manage all the images for the hardware models, assets and PDU models. Ability to list and edit images just like other objects in device42. Images now saved in size optimal for rack viewing, so page rendering time for the rack display would be better.

Ability to upload CPU and memory information via APIs to your instance of device42 software. We are working on new auto-discovery client for this. Individual linux script to perform this has been uploaded to: https://device42.zendesk.com/entries/21722146

A simple change where when adding an administrator from active directory, the username is stored in all lowercase now. It doesn't affect any current active directory administrators added to device42 appliance(But you can manually change the username to all lowercase if you wish).

• Hardware support info is being migrated to purchase under Asset LifeCycle management tab for devices. This gives more fields and control.
• IP Bulk Operation menu has been moved from IPAM to Tools > Bulk Operations.

Update for current customers is available at: http://www.device42.com/update

New users can also try this comprehensive data center inventory and asset management software free for 30 days.