[BESAdmin-Announcements] BES Asset Discovery site updated!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The BES Asset Discovery site has been updated with new features and
improvements!  
 
BES Asset Discovery allows you to run distributed scans throughout your
environment to find devices that BES doesn't currently manage including:
1.    An accurate inventory of network devices like routers, printers,
switches, unauthorized wireless access points, or any device with an IP
address.
2.    A list of all the computers that don't have the BES Client
installed.
 
See a screenshot here:
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/sites/images/ua_console.jpg.
 
The newly improved site contains a number of new features to enhance
functionality and usability.
 
List of Major Changes:
-    Service Detection -- Added service detection to probe unmanaged
computers to detect whether computers are running services like web
servers, ftp servers, DHCP servers, and other services.
-    Correlation to BES Clients -- Enabled correlation of unmanaged
assets against the BES database to remove false-positives and help
identify computers with the BES Client stopped.
-    New Wizard -- Updated the BigFix Asset Discovery Nmap Configuration
Wizard to make it easier to configure the scan points and run scans.
-    Upgraded Asset Discovery components -- Upgraded the nmap utility
and importer to improve the accuracy of the OS detection and improve the
scan speed. 
 
Customers with BES Asset Discovery currently installed, please check the
"Tasks" on the BES Asset Discovery site for information on how to
upgrade existing components.
 
For more information on BES Asset Discovery, please see
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/sites/assetdiscovery.html
<http://support.bigfix.com/bes/sites/assetdiscovery.html> . 
 
If you are not currently licensed for BES Asset Discovery, please
contact your sales representative.
 
Questions / Comments? Use the BigFix User Forum at
http://forum.bigfix.com <http://forum.bigfix.com> ,
BigFix Product Team
 
 
 


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