managing all of your devices
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Managing All of Your DevicesK1000 Agentless, Inventory API, Mobile Devices
Anthony Wenzel, Systems Engineer, November, 4th, 2014
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Why Agentless?
• Non-supported operating Systems
• Network Infrastructure
• Mobile Device Management
• Free!
IP Scan
Agentless
MDM
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K1000 Agentless
Network Discovery Agentless Inventory Mobile Devices
IP Scans using
• Printers
• Routers
• Switches
• Appliances
Unsupported Operating Systems
• Pre 2003 Windows Server
• Unsupported Linux Distros
• ESX hosts
• Ineligible Servers
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• iOS
• Android
• Windows Phone
• Wyse CloudConnect
• Wyse Thin Clients
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Network Discovery
Ping
Socket
Active Directory
Authenticated (SNMP, SSH/Telnet)
Nmap
Discovery ResultsInventory > Discovery
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Example: Active Directory Scan
• Discovery of Active Directory Devices
• Comparison against Kace inventory
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Example: Application Discovery
• Socket tests for devices that listen on a specific port.
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Agentless Inventory
Agentless SSH/Telnet
API Scripting (VBS/Perl)
XML Import
Manual Entry
K1000 Inventory
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Example: Inventory APIProcedure1. Request a session key: Submit keyreq=true in the body of the request to get a session
string in response.
2. Construct the authentication token:
a) Construct the auth string as: session_string + '|' + MD5 of API password
b) Run MD5 on the auth string.
3. Request a device UUID: Submit req=newuuid&key=$auth in the body of the request to get a UUID in response.
4. Submit inventory XML data: Submit_req=loadxml&key=$auth&KUID=$uuid&version=6.0 in the GET line and inventory XML in the body of the request.
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Example: Manual Entry and uploading XML.
• Manual entry• Scripting• XML must adhere to our schema
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Asset TrackingDell Mobile Manager Kace Inventory API
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Reference
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