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DeviceQuest Documentation

Learn how to discover every device on your networks, keep an accurate inventory, fix the vulnerabilities that matter, prove compliance to your auditors, and automate your workflows with DeviceQuest.

New to DeviceQuest? Start with Getting started. Already set up? Pick a topic below, check Troubleshooting when something needs attention, or search for any screen, field or task.

Getting started

Set up DeviceQuest, sign in, secure your account and find your way around.

Help Topics

Operate

Watch your estate day to day with dashboards, the asset inventory and asset details.

Discover

Find every device on your networks, hypervisors and clouds with scheduled scans and file imports.

Risk

Find the vulnerabilities that matter, decide what to do about each one, track the fix, and keep your cloud accounts in shape.

Govern

Prove compliance with security frameworks, keep software licenses in check and produce audit-ready reports.

Build

Automate responses with flows, save asset filters as views, run a helpdesk, connect Jira and ServiceNow, and integrate through API keys and webhooks.

Administration

Manage people, roles, security policy, audit evidence, host agents and the reference data DeviceQuest works with.

Agents

Install, connect, manage and remove the DeviceQuest host agent on Linux and Windows.

API

Integrate with DeviceQuest through the REST API, GraphQL, webhooks and the Go and JavaScript SDKs.

Troubleshooting

Find the cause of a sign-in message, a failed scan, a quiet agent, a failing webhook or an import with errors, and the step that resolves it.

Glossary

The terms used across DeviceQuest and this documentation, in alphabetical order.