FrontRange Centennial Discovery

FrontRange Discovery’s (formerly known as Centennial Discovery) unique hybrid audit technology ensures that, no matter where in the world IT assets are located, whether they are physical or virtual, or which platform they are running on, IT and business managers have immediate access to a full network inventory for the entire organisation.

What's more, FrontRange Discovery is always keeping an eye on the network assets - and will automatically recognize new hardware and software and add them to the comprehensive IT asset repository - all with no manual intervention.

Whether the aim is to take control of software licensing, drive down IT costs or ensure that projects are brought in on time and under budget, FrontRange Discovery provides a baseline of dynamically-updated asset information across the entire network.

Key Features

• 100% asset visibility - discover all IP-addressable hardware on the network, including PCs, servers, switches, network printers and other devices.
• NEW! Virtual Audit - discover and track virtual hardware and software, supporting VMWare and Microsoft virtualisation technologies.
• NEW! Thin Client Audit - identify software published on XenApp 4.5 and 5.0 servers.
• Unmatched software audit - find and audit all software (including suite packages) installed on the network,track software usage.
• Dynamic inventory - know about changes to the network as they happen, without the need for scheduled audits.
• Multi-platform - track hardware and software across all major enterprise platforms, including Windows (now with Windows 7 & 2008), Linux, Unix, Mac OS X (including 10.5 & 10.6) and AIX.
• Remote auditing - keep tabs on all IT assets anywhere in the organisation, whether in the head office, branch location or remotely-connected to the network.
• Multi-user web reports - share audit information with multiple colleagues and create personalized web-based views of key reports

Windows Vista x86 and x64
• Windows CE
• Windows XP up to SP2 + updates on x86 and x64
• Windows 98SE + updates
• Windows ME + updates
• Windows 2000 Professional to SP4 + updates
• Windows NT 4
• Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server to SP4 + updates
• Windows 2000 Small Business Server Premium Edition to SP4 + updates
• Windows 2003 Server Standard and Enterprise to SP1 + updates, Release 2, and SP2 + updates on x86 and x64
• Windows 2003 Small Business Server Premium Edition to SP1 + updates, Release 2 and SP2 + updates on x86 and x64
• Minimum Configuration Guidelines for a Dedicated

Centennial Discovery Server
• Server Specification
PCs Operating System Database RAM Disk Proc
500 Windows 2000/2003 Server MSDE Express 2000 - 05
SQL SE 2000 - 05
SQL Enterprise 2000 - 05 512MB 1GB Pentium® 4 1.8 GHz
501 -
2,000 Windows 2000/2003 Server MSDE Express 2000 - 05
SQL SE 2000 - 05
SQL Enterprise 2000 - 05 1GB 2GB* Pentium® 4 2.4 GHz
2,001 - 5,000 Windows 2000/2003 Server SQL SE 2000-05 3GB 5GB Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz
5,001 - 10,000 Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server SQL SE 2000-05 4GB 10GB Dual Pentium® Xeon™ 2.4GHz
10,001 - 20,000 Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server SQL Enterprise 2005 6GB 20GB Dual Pentium® Xeon™ 3.0GHz
20,001 - 39,999 Windows 2003 Enterprise Server SQL Enterprise 2005 8GB 20GB Dual Pentium® Xeon™ 3.2GHz
40,000+ † Windows 2003 Enterprise Server SQL Enterprise 2005 8GB 80GB Dual Pentium® Xeon™ 3.2GHz
• Centennial Discovery Server also requires Microsoft MDAC 2.8 (shipped with full version of Centennial Discovery)
• * If you are upgrading from a previous version of Discovery to Centennial Discovery you will require additional disk space. Please check your database size before upgrading. MSDE SQL 2000 Server has a 2GB database size limit and the upgrade process needs 3 times of the original database size. See 'Minimum System Requirements' in the 'Upgrading to Discovery' document.
• † For optimum performance on larger systems, please contact your partner for a personalized recommendation.
• In addition, if a pre-4.52 installation is currently installed on a Domain Controller, the installation will have to be moved as the user required for secure communication cannot be created on a Domain Controller. This is because a Domain Controller does not permit local users to be created. A document on moving a Discovery server is available from the Centennial Support Knowledge Base. (http://support.centennial-software.com)
• Discovery Administration Control Center
• All language versions require Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Professional or Windows 2003 SP1.
• Server Operating Systems
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Small Business Server SP4 + updates Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard, Server Enterprise and Small Business Server Premium Edition SP1 + updates IIS 5 or 6 is required for secure data transfer.
• LANProbe Requirements
• LANProbe operates over an IPv4 ethernet network on x86 installations of Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
• Network Environments
• TCP/IPv4
• Secure Communication
• Public/Private key encryption using HTTP over TCP/IP
• Supported Databases
• Discovery 2007 may be used in conjunction with either Microsoft SQL 2000 (MSDE, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition) or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ( Express, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition).

In the event of using SQL 2000, Centennial advise that the appropriate MS SQL 2000 is on a Per Processor basis. A Processor licence includes access for an unlimited number of devices or users to connect from either inside the corporate LAN or WAN or outside the firewall. For further details the Microsoft website carries current information about licensing options.
• Centennial Discovery Web Edition
• Supported platform and system requirements for Centennial Discovery Web Edition are the same as for Centennial Discovery with the following additions:
• Centennial Discovery Web Edition Server
• Microsoft IIS5, IIS6
MS .NET Framework 2.0
(shipped with full version of Discovery 2007)
• Supported Browsers
• The Discovery.Dashboard web interface is designed to be W3C compliant. It is currently tested against the following browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 - 7
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 2.0

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Datasheet: FrontRange Centennial Discovery Datasheet