Paglo: The Search Engine for IT
Paglo is a tool that can be used to discover IT systems and data and monitor and solve computer, network, and other IT related problems. To use it you need to register an account and download and install a client, which is able to crawl your network. Paglo supports different plugins that allow you to grab data from your IT systems:
-Directory Server (requires Windows credentials and IP of Directory server)
-Microsoft Exchange Information (requires Windows credentials)
-SNMP Interface Statistics (requires SNMP credentials and IP of devices)
-Registry Information (requires Windows credentials)
-Remote Commands (requires SSH credentials)
-Rescan Hosts (requires IP address of hosts to rescan, and frequency)
-Switch Harvester (requires SNMP, SSH, and/or Telnet credentials)
-SNMP Harvester (requires SNMP credentials)
-Searchable Folder (requires path to folder)
-WMI Information (requires Windows credentials)
Paglo runs as software as a service (SaaS) so if you plan using it, make sure you have no objections against all your IT related data that Paglo crawls is transmitted and stored on the Paglo server. I contacted the vendor and the response I received is the following:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. We appreciate the fact that you signed up for Paglo. And we understand that SaaS is not for everyone, but I want to make sure one thing is clear. The credentials that you provide the Crawler never leave your network. They are only stored in the Crawler behind your firewall.
Now, it is true that the other data (software, systems, network stats, etc.) is securely transferred into an index in our data center (note that data is sent over https and we mutual authenticate the Crawler with the index). However, this data is actually much less sensitive than information transferred into CRM applications like Salesforce or HR applications like SuccessFactors or even ERP applications like NetSuite. These systems have customer, employee, and financial data.
No matter, we respect your position.
If you want to give it out a try yourself, register an account and download the clientfrom the official website:
