On 5 August 2026 the Italian site Linux Easy published a long article on DeviceShelf, in Italian. It is the most detailed article about DeviceShelf so far, and goes through all of this:
- The read-only scan, and what it collects per device: host name, vendor, operating system, device type, open TCP and UDP ports, and exposed services.
- Scanning several interfaces at once, which the author finds useful on Linux machines with Ethernet, Wi-Fi, VPN, Docker bridges or virtual machines.
- The security report, which scores risky services such as Telnet, unprotected Redis, an exposed Docker API, ADB or Remote Desktop, with a fix for each finding.
- Monitoring over time: alerts for new or unreachable devices, bandwidth per device, Wake-on-LAN, ping, traceroute, DNS lookup, a speed test and the syslog server.
- The deeper probes over SNMP, UPnP, SMB, TLS and SSH, and the physical network map from LLDP and CDP.
- The server edition with its web dashboard, API and MCP support, so an AI assistant can answer questions about the inventory.
- Privacy: scan data stays local, and the license is checked offline.
Thanks to Linux Easy for taking the time.