Most enterprises cannot produce an accurate list of what they run. Discovery tools need agents installed, or credentials configured system by system, or a scan window scheduled, and each of those requirements creates a gap. Devices without agents go undetected. Scheduled scans capture a moment that is already out of date by the time the report finishes. Shadow IT never appears at all.
Mugato takes a different approach. A single collector VM observes how systems actually communicate, using protocols already present in your environment, WMI for Windows and SSH for Linux, with read-only access and no software installed on your endpoints. Anything with an IP address is found: servers, workstations, network devices, IoT and OT, on-premises or in any private or public cloud.
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What's inside
- What true agentless discovery means, and where tools that call themselves agentless still need agents
- The three properties that separate continuous discovery from scheduled scanning
- What Mugato finds: servers, devices, applications, operating systems, connections and security intelligence
- Eight familiar visibility problems, and what replaces each one
- A feature comparison against ServiceNow, Eracent, Flexera and BMC Helix
