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Device42 Reviews in September 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Device42 Reviews & Ratings

4.63

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Based on 26 ratings & 26 reviews

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Spotsaas Editor’s POV

Device42 requires significant upfront effort to configure properly. Initial scans need manual guidance—the platform doesn't auto-detect all assets on first run, so plan 2–4 weeks for a complete network inventory depending on environment size. Login timeouts occur periodically, particularly in larger deployments, so verify session management during your demo and ...Read more

Device42 pros and cons

  • Discovery options cover network, physical, and virtual infrastructures, useful for data center management.

  • Configuration and deployment are straightforward, especially for infrastructure planning and migrations.

  • REST API supports customization and integration with other tools.

  • Support team responds quickly and provides helpful solutions for technical issues.

  • Updates and changes may require frequent version upgrades, impacting how bugs and issues are handled.

  • Roadmap and documentation updates can be unclear, requiring better communication to users.

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Esteban C

09/26/19

4.5 out of 5

The solution for stop using excel sheets and documentation bad habits

What do you like best? The possibility to have in one tool IPAM, IT Asset Management and Datacenter Management What do you dislike? Maybe could have more widgets in the dashboard with all the information that it collects Recommendations to others considering the product: Excellent product to replace the bad habit of using Excel sheets or shared documents that are hard to maintain, If you have a large number of devices the search bar could help you a lot trying to find an ...

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Administrator in Military

09/18/19

5 out of 5

A smooth program with many setting options.

What do you like best? Easy to modify and use only the modules you want. Also just show the modules needed for each tech. Easy to use and get started. What do you dislike? I wish it was a little easier with reports on wiring between patch panels. Recommendations to others considering the product: It's easy to get started, don't start implementing everything at once. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? IP planning ...

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Administrator in Telecommunications

08/14/19

4.5 out of 5

Good DC asset inventory

What do you like best? Ease of setup of VMware vcenter autodiscovery What do you dislike? need a better understanding of Application Dependency Mapping features. Recommendations to others considering the product: ease to install and upgrade Good asset management utility What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Asset & IP management

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Rafael E

08/02/19

4.5 out of 5

Solid and Stable CMDB Software

What do you like best? Device 42 is the best CMDB Program in the market. Allows to monitor IT Assets and create reports and data models which are useful in decision making processes. Highly recommend. What do you dislike? Depending on the IT structure of the company, the information of particular device is not available depending on the support DB. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? For companies in Chile and South America is ...

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Administrator in Government Relations

07/10/19

4.5 out of 5

My experience in Device 42

What do you like best? I like Device42 because of automating data center management with a variety of auto-discovery tools for network, physical, or virtual infrastructures and easily manage IT spare parts hardware inventory. What do you dislike? Auto-discovery can be difficult to implement depending on the complexity of the environment but the addition of remote collectors has definitely helped. Recommendations to others considering the product: Presentation materials for ...

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Lavi B

07/09/19

4 out of 5

Administrating device42 for the last 4 years as our private cloud main source of true

What do you like best? Device42 is very easy to install, backup or restore its data (if needed). It provides an out of the box discovery according to pre-defined jobs (e.g. network, windows, ucsm's etc...) It provides a very good Rest API which is very helpful for adding new fields as customized fields to device42 DB using a script that runs on the servers. Device42 license cost is very low (comparing to other products). What do you dislike? device42 server is one ...

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Ravikanth B

07/08/19

4 out of 5

User Friendly & Great Product

What do you like best? Device 42 is so for the easiest and quickest infrastructure discovery deployment software i have ever seen in discovery and configuration management space. Its cutting edge features and capabilities created to handle Infrastructure Planning and Migrations are awesome. What do you dislike? As there is continuous development going on to improve the capabilities of the tool, sometimes its getting difficult to understand the changes happening from version to ...

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Jeremy R

06/14/19

5 out of 5

Great product for organizing our data center

What do you like best? I really like that it stores all of my data center information in one place with great relational capabilities. What do you dislike? For our specific needs, it is a bit on the expensive side. I wish that there was a lower entry point price-wise. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to organize all of our information in one place with an easy to use interface.

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John E

06/12/19

4 out of 5

An impressive product with very good technical support

What do you like best? The product has a broad level of functionality in comparison to other CMDB implementations. However, the fact that the technical support was so efficient is hugely important given that tying in a CMDB to existing systems can be technically challenging. What do you dislike? It could be that I'm not familiar enough with the product, but initially my concern would be around the presentation of the information to less technically proficient personnel. In other ...

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CI

Consultant in Information Technology and Services

06/12/19

5 out of 5

The overall experience of D42 tool , its featuresfunctionality & support is extremely good.

What do you like best? Device 42 is a very good tool for agentless automated discovery. The features this tool offers are far more than its competitors offers. Its easy to implement & use. Most important thing is if you stuck somehwere you will get excellent support from D42 support team. What do you dislike? The topology diagrams should be more presentable and you cannnot download all diagrams at one click. You need to open each device then you can download the diagram ...

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