Best Network Discovery Tools

Unimus is an on-prem Network Automation and Configuration Management (NCM) solution built for rapid deployment and simplicity. Its powerful Network Discovery scans your network to detect all devices, collecting hostnames, serial numbers, vendor, OS info, and open SSH/Telnet ports. Discovered devices are instantly available for backups, audits, config pushes, and CLI access. Scans can be scheduled, and the engine supports IP exclusions for focused discovery. This gives IT teams full network visibility with minimal effort. With support for 400+ device types from 150+ vendors, Unimus is a vendor-neutral solution offering automation, change management, and config auditing. It reduces manual errors, strengthens security, and speeds up operations — no coding needed.

NetBrain helps IT teams halve MTTR and prevent outages with AI-driven automation. Trusted by 2,500+ enterprises worldwide, our no-code, intent-based platform turns manual network operations into intelligent automation, keeping networks running smoothly and efficiently.​ Top use cases: - Automated Troubleshooting - Automated Change Management - Network AIOps - Network Assessment - Network Visibility - Network Observability - Network Security

FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.

​Open-AudIT is a powerful network discovery and inventory software that intelligently scans an organization’s network and stores the configurations of the discovered devices. This provides immediate access to software licensing, configuration changes, non-authorized devices, capacity utilization, and hardware warranty status reports. Open-AudIT can collect significant amounts of data from large and varying networks that are cataloged and can easily be configured into meaningful reports. It enables users to easily create network discovery profiles for their organization and then run a discovery with a single click or even on an automated schedule. It audits the organization’s network daily without impacting the user experience and intelligently stores the configuration of every discovered component. Open-AudIT tracks and reports on IT asset configuration changes, software licensing, shadow IT, and hardware warranty status.

UVexplorer PRO automatically and quickly discovers all of the information about the devices on your network and the connections between them. UVexplorer creates network maps for documentation, meetings, presentations, sharing with your boss, or hanging on the wall. Export UVexplorer's automated network maps to PRTG, LucidChart, Microsoft Visio™, PDF, and SVG file types. UVexplorer also backups and provides change notifications for configurations of your network devices, such as routers, switches, and firewalls. Track how device configurations change over time. With UVexplorer's PRTG Connector, add powerful network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network maps to PRTG Network Monitor. Capture detailed device and network inventory information to help meet documentation requirements of governmental regulations like PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX, etc. Analyze and solve network and device problems with UVexplorer's suite of diagnostic tools.

Cisco Prime Network is a cost-effective device operation, administration, and network fault-management solution. This single solution helps service providers reduce management complexity and deliver carrier-class services. It supports the physical network components as well as the compute infrastructure, and virtual elements found in data centers. Increased operational efficiency through automated network discovery, configuration and change management. Enhanced customer satisfaction through proactive service assurance using postevent fault management and trend information. Lower integration costs through preintegration with Cisco Prime Carrier Management suite and northbound interfaces to third party applications. Detailed end-to-end views of the physical and virtual network topology and inventory. GUI-based device configuration with prebuilt and downloadable scripts. Up-to-date displays of network event, state, and configuration changes.