We’re excited to present Asset Discovery Tool 3.1.8. Here are the highlights of the improvements we’ve made in this release:

• Updated logging to give you more insight into how Assets Discovery is functioning in your environment
• Improved security
• Enhanced pattern experience to ensure your scan results are always complete
• Detailed statuses for connection tests
• Improved Discovery Agent logging and sustainability
• Fixed bugs

For more details on what we’ve changed and a full list of the bugs we’ve fixed, check out our Assets Discovery release documentation.

We’re excited to present Asset Discovery Tool 3.1.8. Here are the highlights of the improvements we’ve made in this release:

• Updated logging to give you more insight into how Assets Discovery is functioning in your environment
• Improved security
• Enhanced pattern experience to ensure your scan results are always complete
• Detailed statuses for connection tests
• Improved Discovery Agent logging and sustainability
• Fixed bugs

For more details on what we’ve changed and a full list of the bugs we’ve fixed, check out our Assets Discovery release documentation.

We’re changing the name of the Jira Service Management asset management tool from Insight to Assets.

The functionality of the tool remains the same. But the rebranding has influenced the user interface and the tool-related marketplace apps, like Insight – Asset Management, Insight Discovery, Insight AWS Integration, and others. Learn more about what’s changing.

The new branding will start with Jira Service Management 5.3. We recommended updating JSM and any other Insight apps that you’ve installed for a consistent branding experience.

We’re changing the name of the Jira Service Management asset management tool from Insight to Assets.

The functionality of the tool remains the same. But the rebranding has influenced the user interface and the tool-related marketplace apps, like Insight – Asset Management, Insight Discovery, Insight AWS Integration, and others. Learn more about what’s changing.

The new branding will start with Jira Service Management 5.3. We recommended updating JSM and any other Insight apps that you’ve installed for a consistent branding experience.

Insight Discovery is now available for no cost for everybody who's using Insight Asset Management with Jira Service Management Data Center or Jira Software Data Center. See our FAQ for details

We also have included improvement on the discovery tool such

• BugFix: handle Asset History Exception
• BugFix: Minor fixes

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.19.0

This release will exchange the used Zip-Library, the old Library causes issues on updating the Discovery Tool on Linux system

Performing this update is just required if you are running the Discovery Tool on a Linux system with Mono.Net

• Improvement: change PatternType from Hostinfo to Deviceinfo in SNMP pattern if they are returning a Deviceinfo object
• Improvement: adding new Host Attribute "CPUCount"
• Improvement: adding new VirtualGuest Attribute "CPUCount"Improvement: changed SNMP_Deviceinfo_Network.pat
• Improvement: Windows-Agent adding retry logic for SFTP transfer (new Windows Agent 1.18.0)
• BugFix: add missing ObjectIdentifier value for SNMP result
• BugFix: SNMP V3 connection with authentication only

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.18.0

• Improvement: improved ICMP request
• Improvement: improved Linux_OS pattern
• Improvement: improved Linux_Hostname pattern
• BugFix: Pattern selection not saved
• BugFix: changed calculation for schedule scans
• BugFix: SSH-Provider not longer adding sudo to commands that not responding result data

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.17.4

• BugFix: configured Debug LogLevel not used
• BugFix: PowerShell connection not working in some situations
• BugFix: FileSystem Datalocator (dropdown at Import-Configuration)
• Change: Remove LogLevel Extended
• Minor fixes

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.17.3

• BugFix: move import files on Windows
• Improvement: add a Instance-Prefix to the Discovery and Collector-Tool

• BugFix: Fix empty Agent-Range issue
• BugFix: SNMP v3 Credential issue
• BugFix: SNMP Hex Value (MAC-Address) issue
• BugFix: SSH RSA Credential issue when passphrase is empty
• Improvement: netstat command parameter changed from "-an" to "-atn"
• Improvement: adding new pattern Linux_Xen_VMs.pat

included old Windows Discovery-Agent 1.17.2

• BugFix: credentials not saved after first start-up

• BugFix: Fix scan get stuck against SNMP Device with RFC3414 implementation
• BugFix: Database ObjectHash using the ServerName
• Improvement: adding new pattern Linux_Peripherie_VideoController.pat

• BugFix: SFTP File Transfer for non posix systems
• BugFix: issue with linked SNMP Credentials
• Change: Database-Object hash now contains server name
• Improvement: Credentials and ScanSetting need to unlock before editing
• Improvement: support for usage of different WMI-Namespaces
• Improvement: adding Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual-Guests Pattern-File

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.17.2

• BugFix: fixed issue that known credentials are not saved
• BugFix: Linux FileSystem pattern, first file system is missing in result
• BugFix: Docker-Pattern changed that the containerId will be used as UUID value
• BugFix: Docker-Pattern remove leading / from name
• BugFix: VirtualGuest ObjectHash now includes the hostname
• BugFix: missing Virtual-Guests from docker on MacOSX
• Improvement: add a console option (-rs Improvement: add alternative command to get linux timezone (date '+%Z %z')
• Improvement: add more private IP4 network address spaces
• Improvement: improved virtualization detection
• Improvement: FQDN Attribute will be now have a real validation in the pattern
• Improvement: changed linux dmidecode command usage
• Change: Fixed referenced configuration for StorageDevice

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.17.0

• Change: Credential Export, this feature has been removed
• Change: adding new OS Attribute "Codename"
• Change: Host Attribute "Virtual" is now a Text Field and will be just set to "True" if the system is recognized as a virtual one
• Change: one Linux_OS Pattern-File covering all deprecated and removed Linux OS Pattern-Files
• Change: Linux Vendor Pattern: adding a fallback command to get the manufacturer
• Change: Docker-Pattern exclude container with status exited and dead
• Improvement: adding a Host Attribute "SystemUpTimeMinutes"
• Improvement: adding a Host Attribute "Timezone"
• Improvement: adding pattern files to fetch timezone informations
  • Linux_Hostinfo_Timezone
  • MacOSX_Hostinfo_Timezone
  • Windows_Hostinfo_Timezone
  • Windows_Hostinfo_Timezone_PS
  • Solaris_Hostinfo_Timezone
• Improvement: adding a NetworkInterface Attribute "AddressSpace"
• BugFix: ApplicationServices Status will be now fetched correct

• BugFix: Fixed that scans get stuck
• Change: Adding a version node-attribute to pattern files
• Change: Adding a fallback variation for Linux-Host-Attributes: Vendor, Model, Serialnumber, UUID

This change can result in new Host-Objects!

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.15.0

• Improvement: possibility to disable a Scan Setting
• BugFix: fix issue with SSH connections
• Change: Windows RAM Pattern change WMI-Class from Win32_PhysicalMemory to Win32_ComputerSystem

included old Windows Discovery-Agent 1.14.1

• Improvement: add new attribute "Notes" to VM-Guest ObjectType
• Improvement: optimze Agent-Data collecting for huge IP-Ranges
• BugFix: fix for SNMP V1 and V2 connections
• BugFix: Windows-Agent fix for SFTP Password encryption
• BugFix: fixed licence end date issue

included Windows Discovery-Agent 1.14.1

• Change: new SNMP-Library (new SNMP Privacy-Protocol AES256)
• Change: default SNMP-Timeout to 500ms
• Change: SNMP_Deviceinfo_Default RAM calculation
• Change: SNMP_Deviceinfo_ExtExampleRAM RAM calculation
• Change: don't adding a Basic- or Unknown-Host when we got an SNMP-Device result
• Change: running on Linux, enable the selection for delete Unknown- or Basic-Hosts
• Change: adding an Agent-Client connection timeout
• Improvement: changed pattern Linux_Hostinfo_Hostname
• Improvement: changed pattern Linux_FileSystem
• Improvement: added EndOfSupport Dates for Windows Server 2016 and 2019
• Improvement: add new ObjectType StorageDevice
• Improvement: adding Windows and Linux StorageDevice Pattern-Files
• BugFix: issue with loading the credential store

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.14.0

• Change: minimum .Net Version 4.6
• Improvement: VMWare TLS 1.2 support
• BugFix: Exception when running discovery -r without any ScanSettingID
• BugFix: issue when collecting Windows Agent data
• BugFix: wrong include in Windows_FileSystem_PS Pattern

included new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.12.0

• Improvement: adding a statistic for agent-client communication
• Improvement: adding a VirtualGuest-Type Attribute for VirtualGuest-Objects
• Improvement: Hypervisor reference logic
• Improvement: adding a function to select or deselect pattern files by groups
• Improvement: adding a Pattern to get MacOSX FQDN
• BugFix: ESXi-Host Pattern wrong Serialnumber fetched

included Windows Discovery-Agent 1.11.2

• Improvement: Collecting Agent-Data is now Thread-Managed
• BugFix: WMI-Execute command didn't respect the configured WMI-Timeout
• Windows-Agent: saver Agent.cfg loading

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.11.2

• Add: New Pattern for Docker Container
• Change: ConnectedDevice Pattern, renaming ExtendedAttribute "Status" to "Device Status"
• Improvement: credential-store handling
• BugFix: Licence issues
• BugFix: Thread calculation

included the Windows Discovery-Agent 1.9.0

• BugFix: issue with ignore IPv6 IPs
• Update VIM Libraries from 6.5 to 6.7
• Change connection exception logging
• Change: adding a new reference between VM-Guest and associated Host

included the Windows Discovery-Agent 1.9.

• Improvement: adding functionality to enable/disable pattern files
• Improvement: adding Solaris Pattern files
• Improvement: Application Credentials, application name is a dropdown
• Improvement: adding attribute "Short Name" to Application-Service-Object
• Improvement: added an attribute for Host.Hypervisor
• Change: changed the attribute name for VirtualGuest.Host to VirtualGuest.Hypervisor
• Change: Filesystem Name changed from Win32_LogicalDisk.Desciption to Win32_LogicalDisk.VolumeName
• Change: change CPU-Object usage

included the Windows Discovery-Agent 1.9.0

Please notice you need to update Insight to 5.7.0

• Improvement: Discovery-Agent can now transfer result data via sftp
• Improvement: extending FileSystem Informations (changed Windows-Pattern)
• Improvement: adding a reference between ScanInfo-Object and ScanSetting-Object
• Improvement: adding a new Attribute (VisibleInMSUI) to the Application-Object
• BugFix: removing Unknown-Host that having an IP-Address that are available in "regular" Host data
• BugFix: reusing TTY-ShellStream to reduce SSH-Terminal logins
• BugFix: respect the configured ignore IPs for VM-Guest scanning

• Fixed issue with maintenance end date for discovery license

We have added the generation of the Discovery application license within the Insight Discovery app. It will be generated from the Marketplace/UPM license.

• Change: logic to get MAC-Address from arp cache
• Change: SNMP command retries from 0 to 2
• Change: clear exception message for wrong SSH-RSA passphrase
• BugFix: fix for missing SNMP-Devices when multiple community strings available

• Change: Zip slip vulnerability
• BugFix: Wrong ApplicationInfo name for VMware-Tools
• BugFix: Exception for reading 64bit Registry on 32bit hosts
• minor bug fixes and improvements

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.8.1

• Change: Zip slip vulnerability
• BugFix: Wrong ApplicationInfo name for VMware-Tools
• BugFix: Exception for reading 64bit Registry on 32bit hosts
• minor bug fixes and improvements

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.8.1

• Change: rework ESXi-Pattern and Provider to get all ESXi-Hosts
• Improvement: add Hostname Attribute to VirtualGuest Object
• Improvement: service will perfom a restart every 24 hours to prevent memory leaks
• BugFix: Linux_VBox_VMs fix exception
• BugFix: vSphere Credential not used when reassigned to "All"-ScanRanges
• BugFix: assigned ScanEntry for Credential getting lost when changing the Tab
• BugFix: manuell scan execution not working with chars in ScanSettingId
• BugFix: VirtualGuest split multiple IP Adresses to multiple NetworkInterfaces

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.8.0

• BugFix: Collecting Agent Data issue
• BugFix: issue when importing Application-Object in combination with VirtualGuest-Objects

• Change: adding a new Virtual Guest Object
• Change: changing the VM Guest pattern files to Virtual Guest Objects
• BugFix: LogFile folders adding the ScanSettingId behinde the date value
• BugFix: deleting old log files and folders
• BugFix: Collecting Agent data when interval is greater then 59minutes
• Improvement: Memory usage

Now it is possible to collect ESXi-Data with an vSphere-Provider by using the Web-Api of the ESXi-Server.

The old SSH and SNMP-Pattern are removed to respect the VMWare Security Policies. (ID-34)

(The old Pattern-Files are available at our Documentation-Pages)

• Log files and folder naming changed (ID-35)
• Rework Windows Application Registry Pattern (merged to one), getting User installed Applications
• minor bug fixes and improvements

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.7.0

• BugFix: Service stopping unexpected
• BugFix: fix that the alternative dns lookup delivering the Domain-Controller name as result
• BugFix: Remove Basic or Unknown-Host if an SNMP-Device was scanned
• Improvement: Adding additional ESXi-Pattern
• Change: Confirm service restart when leaving settings

• BugFix/Improvement: Memor leak fixed
• Improvement: Mac-Pattern adding SPHardwareDataType to system_profiler commands
• Improvement: Default search folders for Application Pattern (like Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Improvement: Collected data from Agents will be transfered after collecting
• Improvement: add an alternative Reverse DNS lookup
• Improvement: add NetworkInterface from ScanInfo if it is missing

included a new Windows Discovery-Agent 1.6.0

HotFix for LicenseObject issue

We apologize for the inconvenience

• Improvement: new security feature for new licence keys (2018/01/13)
• BugFix: Duplicate Hosts if Host responding via SSH and SNMP
• BugFix: ESXi_Hostinfo_VMs pattern

Included Discovery-Agent 1.5.1 (Windows)

• BugFix: Linux_Peripherie_USB_Storage.pat NullPointer Exception
• BugFix: wrong amount of NetworkInterface information in some constellations
• BugFix: missing information in SSH-Terminal-Console modus
• BugFix: Infinity Loop when deleting "host"-objects

Including Discovery Agent 1.5.1 (Windows)

• Improvement: Add an option that automaticly adds "sudo" to any SSH command
• Improvement: Add an option to repead ICMP requests
• Change: Linux Hostname Pattern ignore "localhost" as hostname
• Change: Linux Hostname Pattern start with "clean" hostname command and separate the FQDN commands
• Change: Linux ApplicationService Pattern to support rc-service command
• Add: New Pattern for Linux Application via "qlist" command
• Add: New Pattern for Linux Networkinterface via "ip addr" command
• BugFix: Missing NetworkInterface information at some constellations
• BugFix: Windows-Pattern catch empty WMI results
• BugFix: two Mac-Pattern catch exception by wrong result dataBugFix: Missing Services for RedHat Distribution
• BugFix: "Basic"-Host without found MAC was not marked as "Basic"-Host

also included a new Windows Discovery-Agent

• Change: ServiceID now always equal (UI and Service)

• BugFix: for several pattern
• BugFix: issue with Windows-Agent communication
• different minor fixes

also included a new Windows Discovery-Agent (1.5.0)

• Improvement: release memory directly after a particular scan
• Improvement: reduce time between processing ScanSetting
• Improvement: fix several application pattern
• Change: Maximum ICMP Request TimeOut raised to 9990
• Add: Atlassian Product Pattern read and add reference to used database
• Add: new Pattern Type (PostProcessing)
• Add: New Pattern for Microsoft Office Product Licence Information
• BugFix: Exception for "Invalid WMI" Class --> see: Missing Product results from Windows Server 2003
• BugFix: PowerShell Credential usage

• Improvement: PowerShell Provider with alternative Windows-Pattern files
• Improvement: Increase the speed for calculating of IP-Address ranges
• Improvement: Windows-Agent new configuration for scan interval in hour (default 24 hour)
• Improvement: Better Memory handling
• Change: Windows "Current User" now changed to "fixed" Host-Attribute "Last User"
• Add: New Pattern for Linux LastUser

also includes a new Discovery Windows Agent

• Improvement: Handling multiple IPs on same physical interface
• Improvement: Speed up ssh execution
• Improvement: Linux_Hostname Pattern
• Add: New Pattern for Windows Apache Tomcat Application
• Add: New Pattern for Windows/Linux Atlassian JIRA Application
• Add: New Pattern for Windows/Linux Atlassian Confluence Application
• Add: New Pattern for Windows/Linux Atlassian BitBucket Application
• Add: New Pattern for Windows/Linux Atlassian Bamboo Application
• Add: New Pattern for Windows/Linux PostgreSQL Databases
• BugFix: Missing ObjectReference after aborting a long running thread
• BugFix: Wrong set Host.Vendor (IBM/Apple Inc.)
• BugFix: Wrong set Host.Model
• BugFix: exception when accessing the credendial.known file
• BugFix: Handling canceled threads
• BugFix: remote WMI command execution can result in high memory usage at remote system (ID-24)
• BugFix: missing data locators for Discovery and Collector import configuration

also included a new Windows Discovery-Agent

• Improvement: Different UI changes (List Items are sortable)
• Improvement: Add an option to remove SNMP Devices from result when a "normal" Host result is available
• Improvement: ESXi_Hostinfo_VMs.pat changed from ConnectedDevices to Hosts (vm guests)
• Add: New Pattern for Windows VirtualBox Virtual Guest Machines
• Add: New Pattern for Linux VirtualBox Virtual Guest Machines
• BugFix: Fix for missing Applications read from Windows Registry (also affected the Windows-Agent)
• BugFix: ScanInterval not saved when switched to weekly

• Improvement: new structure for discovery and collector settings(please import all file before updating to the new version)
• Improvement: Possibility to create a logfile for each thread
• Improvement: Feed IP Range from text files
• Improvement: Application Credentials
• Improvement: Add an option the remove VM Guest-Hosts Objects from result
• Add: New Pattern for Linux_Application_MySQL-DBs.pat
• Add: New Pattern for Windows_Application_MySQL-DBs.pat
• Add: New Pattern for Windows_Application_MSSQL-DBs.pat
• BugFix: Size for USB Storages (Windows_Peripherie_USB_Storage.pat)
• BugFix: Exception when threads try to access the credential store
• BugFix: Incomplete log file by high IO load
• BugFix: SSH_RSA Credentials not used with empty sudo password

• Network Interface as IP6 label fix
• Minor fixes

• Improved import performance
• Minor fixes

• Improvement: Mono compatible version
• Improvement: Add MacOSX RAM Pattern
• Improvement: Add Linux Network Pattern with "ip addr show" command
• Improvement: Change Linux system uptime Pattern
• Improvement: Better detail information for linux operating systems
• Bugfix: Discovery-Agent file transfer issue

• Optimized parallel thread handling
• Optimized Linux Distribution Pattern
• Optimized Windows Pattern
• New Feature: Get Hostlist via SNMP (e.g. ESXi)
• New Feature: License update via cli (-lu key)
• New Pattern for Linux Services
• New Pattern for macOSX Services

This is the supported version for Insight 5.0.0 and is shipped with new functionality and also take advantage of the complete new Insight import engine for improved performance and scalability.

We have added support for devices connected to hosts, like USB memory, Printers and Monitors. For more information, read the release note

Improvements:

• Multi threading (scan multiple Host/Devices at ones).
• Multiple scan configurations.
• Connecting credentials to one specific scan configuration.
• Start one configured scan setting manually.
• Collector - File transfer with SSH-RSA (without passphrase)

Added:

• Windows agent installer for 32Bit & 64Bit operating systems

We now support file transfer with SSH-RSA (without Passphrase)

Possibility of direct copy of data for the discovery agent

You may now configure which attributes that should be used when building the object hash by editing the "ObjectHashSettings.xml". Read more about this here

Read more about this here

With the discovery agent for windows, you can discover data from systems that are not always online, like office computers or notebooks.

Read more about this here

Calculating pinged host with evaluation license

Fixes in RSA-Key where the Passphrase of the keys is different to the sudo password of the user.

Minor bugfixes

• Add a new Log Level for Debug-Information
• Add an Option for deleting Unknown Hosts

This is the official release of Insight Discovery. It's compatible with Insight version 4.1 or later.

Read about Insight Discovery here