Asset and configuration information include installed operating system, installed software, services, patches, processors, memory modules, network interfaces and many more. In order to obtain this information access (in some cases root/admin access) is required. Up to now, customers configure the username and password required to authenticate within our configuration dialogs. However, more and more customers are concerned about having one account accessing all information and thus used password managers such as Idira. In this case, passwords are managed by Idira and not in our product. JDisc Discovery will then query Idira via API whenever it needs a username and password to obtain access to a device.