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Discovery vs Agent Client Collector

pneuvil1
Mega Guru

Both are great products, but if you were only allowed to deploy one or the other, which one would you choose and why?

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timothywick
Giga Guru

interesting question and it revolves heavily around security.  For the sake of security and limiting the number of ports opened between VLANs I would have to choose the ACC. If I am allowed to open ports as required and this is not a security concern, and the Firewall admin has no issues then Discovery is my choice.  Second security item is agent vs. agentless, some Infrastructure Admins will make a requirement one way or the other, in my experience usually agentless.

BharaniKumK
Tera Contributor

Can someone provide more details on the technical limitations of what can be discovered using Agentless Discovery versus ACC? Is there any documentation available for reference? Specifically, can ACC discover the same components as Agentless Discovery?