How much additional configuration is required on each managed asset due to the lack of agents?

While we believe that our agentless architecture makes deployment much faster overall, there is still some initial setup required to allow 12Port to connect to your assets for remote monitoring and management. Our requirements for asset connectivity are as follows:

• A service account with administrator/sudo privileges for each asset (this can be a shared domain account on Windows)
• The appropriate remote management server (WinRM/ssh) running on each asset
• Connectivity from the management server to each asset over the appropriate port

Fulfilling these requirements may be more simple or complex depending on the rigidity of your environment, but achieving asset connectivity is typically a short process for most customers. Once we can connect to a few test assets and run scripts on them, most of the remaining configuration is automated for you through our bulk asset import and auto-tagging features.