Introduction
Genie Network Discovery from Jilroy Software is a full scale network discovery product which enables you to learn inventory information about your network in an easy way, and access it using SQL.

The Network Discovery product is an implementation of the Genie Inventory platform. It also can be extended to fit your exact needs, as described in the "Inventory Platform" section.

The following diagram shows the overall structure of the Network Discovery system.
The Network Discovery product functionality
The Network discovery product can have multiple purposes:

• It can be a part of a CMDB that performs a discovery for network devices.
• Act as the core of a monitoring platform, suppling inventory information about the monitored network.
• Acts as a core of a provisioning system.

and much more...

It is a full Java based solution and as such can run on any Java supporting platform from Unix platforms (Linux/sun/hpux) to Windows and others.

Its output is redirected into a database which can be accessed using JDBC. You can alter and customize the collected fields on the discovered nodes using configuration files, so now you

You can decide whether the product will auto discover the nodes in your network or you can specify directly which devices will be discovered You can customize the GUI supplied with the product, easily and tailor it to your exact needs.You can add new query panel, and point to new tables defined by you.

You can manage a permission scheme on top of the GUI developed. Please refer to the GUI programmers guide for exact details of its tailoring capabilities.