Identifying Devices Using Evidence

IT Visibility uses evidence information to identify devices within your enterprise. The evidence information is collected as a part of the inventory collection process.

You can see all your discovered devices aligned with normalized results, where applicable, on the Devices page (Inventory > IT Visibility Devices > Devices).

This data can help you understand what happens between your devices and the normalization results and see what software is installed on each device.

On this page, you can view the following information:

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The overall evidence counts for the following types of Recognition Status:

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Devices is a count of all devices regardless of their Recognition Status.

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Active is a count of active devices. This is the default view for the Device Evidence page.

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Ignored is a count of ignored devices.

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Detailed properties of each device. You can search for devices by using the global search box or the filter in each property column. You can also sort the devices by properties.

The following table lists all the available properties. Some properties are displayed by default and others can be displayed through the column chooser. To open the column chooser, click the icon. You can also export all these details in the CSV format.

Device Properties

Property	Description
Device Name	The name of the device. Clicking on the Device Name value opens a Device Detail page for that device. The Device Detail page shows device properties and software evidence details. (See the sections below for information about Device Detail Properties and Software Evidence Properties.)
Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the device.
Model	The model of the device.
Serial Number	The serial number of the device.
Last Inventory Date	The date and time when inventory was last received.
Recognition Status	The Recognition Status of the device based on evidence. (The Recognition Status column is not shown by default when you are viewing only Active or only Ignored devices.) This field can have one of the following values: • Active—Indicates that the evidence has been recognized and mapped to a device. • Ignored—Indicates that the evidence was not recognized and will be ignored.
Data Sources	The data sources that discovered or inventoried the device.

From the Devices page, you can link to Device Detail and Software Evidence Detail pages.

Device Detail Properties

Property	Description
Device Name	The name of the device.
Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the device.
Model	The model of the device.
Serial Number	The serial number of the device.
IP Addresses	The IP addresses of the device.
MAC Addresses	The MAC addresses of the device.
Last Inventory Date	The date and time when inventory was last received.
Data Sources	The data sources that discovered or inventoried the device.
Software Evidence	A count of software evidence records for the current device.
Technopedia ID	The ID of the device as provided in Technopedia.

Software Evidence Detail Properties

Property	Description
Evidence Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the software as reported by the evidence.
Evidence Name	The display name of the software as reported by the evidence.
Evidence Version	The version of the software as reported by the evidence.
Last Found	The date and time when the evidence was last found.
Recognition Status	The recognition status of the evidence. This field can have one of the following values: • Active—Indicates that the evidence has been recognized and mapped in Technopedia. • Irrelevant—Indicates that the evidence has been recognized as not having any value to the customer. • Unrecognized—Indicates that the evidence has not been mapped in Technopedia. Flexera curates unrecognized evidence based on whether it is useful for recognition. Details on this gap-fill process can be found in the Flexera Community.
Technopedia Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the software as provided in Technopedia.
Technopedia Name	The display name of the software as provided in Technopedia.
Technopedia Version	The version of the software as provided in Technopedia.
Technopedia Product ID	The Technopedia unique identifier for the application, if applicable.
Technopedia Release ID	The Technopedia unique identifier for the application, if applicable.