Device Types in USM Inventory

Products

• DX Infrastructure Management

Issue/Introduction

What is the explanation for the values in Device Type in USM Inventory

Environment

UIM 8.x and 9.x

Resolution

 

“Device” is IP device that we don’t have any additional classification info, typically remote target device of agentless probe.

“Host” is IP device and we have some basic classification info (ex, Windows, Linux, etc), typically UIM robot.

“Virtual Server” is IP device and we have some classification info of this is virtualization host (hypervisor) environment.

“VMware Host” is IP device and we have some classification info of this is guest machine in the vmware environment.