BlueCat Integrity vs. Device42

It can act as a reasonable DNS and DHCP solution if money allows you chose to have a dedicated (virtual) appliance.

Incentivized

Device42 is very easy to use, configure and install on multiple devices without experiencing any technical or difficulty errors. Simple and effective User Interface that is very attractive and easy to navigate in search of any asset management data. like it offers variety of licensing models from which we can choose what we want.

Incentivized

• IP management
• DNS server
• TFTP

Incentivized

• Device42 can discover physical and virtual servers as well as your network devices
• Device42 can give resource utilization details like CPU, Memory and Storage
• Device42 can give dependency mapping
• Device42 can give inbound and outbound communication details
• Device42 can create Affinity Groups (Move Groups)
• Device42 can recommend the Cloud platform to which you can migrate your infrastructure.

Incentivized

• GUI interface could use some touch-ups. For example, saving a configuration is not the easiest thing to do.
• Hypervisor compatibility (currently doesn't support Nutanix AHV).
• Not too many KBs publicly available.

Incentivized

• UI/UX is not up to the standards.
• Can't mass update everything.
• No export option for the sub components that have changed linked to the device they are assigned to
• Plugins options are limited
• Sometimes randomly times out my login forcing me to log in again.

Incentivized

For all it's worth, it's a Linux based appliance and does offer a high availability design. It does offer IP address management and can scan your network through ICMP and SNMP. It does support role-based access controls for admins.

Incentivized

When we compare both Nlyte & Device42. The below are the advantages of Device42 which helped us to choose it. 1. Support is very much good in Device42. 2. It has lots of advanced features CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM etc. 3. It helps in documenting unlike manual & tedious process. 4. It helps us to remove the spreadsheet method for tracking with advanced reporting

Incentivized

• CONS: Not up to speed with market-leading virtualization technologies such as Nutanix.
• PROS: Reliable solution.
• PROS: The design can be confusing for the folks used to Infoblox as it utilized 1 controller called Bluecat Address Manager and the actual DNS/DHCP servers named BDDS.

Incentivized

• We use it for the mass updates. Because of which we save lots of time
• It helps in making everything documented
• With this system you can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information and statuses.
• Inventory Management

Incentivized