Asset Discovery: Is anyone using ForeScout and not ServiceNow Discovery?

[richardrowe]

Good Morning,

Our security team is telling us that we need to use the CDM's ForeScout tool to collect asset information, but we are concerned that it will not collect the data that the ITAM needs to manage assets, such as lifecycle information, and we will have to create custom code to normalize the imported data.  If we use ForeScout, then we plan to use the ForeScout plugin, but we don't think that will address these issues.

If anyone is using ForeScout either by itself, or in conjunction with ServiceNow Discovery, then we would like to get your feedback?  Also, is anyone using any other tool such as SCCM?

Thank you,

Rich

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

[Ashok Sasidhara]

If you are using HAM pro, then the HAM content service will take care of normalization and lifecycle data population for most of the records populated in the asset tables (except for any devices whose details are currently not available in the content service). This will happen irrespective of the data source.

[SK Chand Basha]

Hi @richardrowe 

Yes we use Forescout for one of project it's not just plug and play where we need to write lot of script to push the data in CMDB classes. 

If you use the SCCM service graph connector you will get Software Usage details as well other Connectors doesn't have this capability. 

[richardrowe]

Are you using the Forescout service graph connector?  From what I understand, this plug in helps you to avoid writing scripts to push data into the CMDB.  Thank you!