Managing All of Your Devices

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Managing All of Your DevicesK1000 Agentless, Inventory API, Mobile Devices

Anthony Wenzel, Systems Engineer, November, 4th, 2014

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Why Agentless?

• Non-supported operating Systems

• Network Infrastructure

• Mobile Device Management

• Free!

IP Scan

Agentless

MDM


K1000 Agentless

Network Discovery Agentless Inventory Mobile Devices

IP Scans using

• Printers

• Routers

• Switches

• Appliances

Unsupported Operating Systems

• Pre 2003 Windows Server

• Unsupported Linux Distros

• ESX hosts

• Ineligible Servers

Dell Mobile Device Management

• iOS

• Android

• Windows Phone

• Wyse CloudConnect

• Wyse Thin Clients


Network Discovery

Ping

Socket

Active Directory

Authenticated (SNMP, SSH/Telnet)

Nmap

Discovery ResultsInventory > Discovery


Example: Printer SNMP

• SNMP String Query

• Management Information Base (MIB)


Example: Active Directory Scan

• Discovery of Active Directory Devices

• Comparison against Kace inventory


Example: Application Discovery

• Socket tests for devices that listen on a specific port.


Agentless Inventory

Agentless SSH/Telnet

API Scripting (VBS/Perl)

XML Import

Manual Entry

K1000 Inventory


Example: SSH Openfiler


Example: Inventory APIProcedure1. Request a session key: Submit keyreq=true in the body of the request to get a session

string in response.

2. Construct the authentication token:

a) Construct the auth string as: session_string + '|' + MD5 of API password

b) Run MD5 on the auth string.

3. Request a device UUID: Submit req=newuuid&key=$auth in the body of the request to get a UUID in response.

4. Submit inventory XML data: Submit_req=loadxml&key=$auth&KUID=$uuid&version=6.0 in the GET line and inventory XML in the body of the request.





Example: Manual Entry and uploading XML.

• Manual entry• Scripting• XML must adhere to our schema


Example: XML import for ESXi

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Mobile Device Management

Asset TrackingDell Mobile Manager Kace Inventory API

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Example: Dell Mobile Manager


Reference

http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/uploading-inventory-data-for-esxi-5-machines

Software

Managing All of Your Devices