Overview

The Agent Driven Inventory discovery is introduced to handle limitations of the classical Inventory by Scanner discovery.

In this model, Agent is the initiator of the connection that solves the following issues:

  • Agent is behind Network address translation (NAT) or firewall and not reachable by the Data Flow Probe
  • Frequently changing IP addresses so that classical discovery cannot fit the job schedule
  • Migration between locations

The Agent Driven Inventory discovery can easily discover devices behind VPN or inside private network and moving devices, simplify the inventory discovery work flow, and improve the performance and the discovery capacity of Data Flow Probe.

In addition, this discovery can provide reports for duplicated Agents and roaming Agents. For details about these reports, see "UD Agent Status Reports" in the Modeling section of the UCMDB Help.