Device42 vs rxInventory

Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.

For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.

rxInventory is an on-premises tool for discovering and tracking network computers, other devices, and manually recorded fixed assets. Scheduled scans update inventory in the background without requiring Windows client software across the network. Linux and macOS computers can be scanned when SSH is enabled. A Visual Basic-like scripting language can collect registry values and file information or run WMI, SNMP, and SSH requests. Supported databases include Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. License records can include purchase dates, expiration, and prices; reports can analyze asset data, export to Microsoft Excel, or query SQL views. The product shows when hardware and software changes occurred, and user information can be excluded from storage. The free Basic plan covers up to 20 clients with full functionality and support, but those clients cannot be combined with a purchased license. Professional licenses are listed at tiered per-client prices from 5.00 € once, excluding VAT; Enterprise is 4999.00 EUR once, also excluding VAT.