Re: Network Discovery of Routers etc?

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From: Garth (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:13:21 -0400

yes, network discovery will find router and/or any other network device that
forward a ip packet. If it can determine it's subnet mask.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;237557&sd=tech

Keep in mind that it will also find RAS servers and other Windows OS with
VPN, etc

To see what you have discover use this query to see.

SELECT DISTINCT
System_Resource_N_ARR.Resource_Names0 AS 'Name',
System_System_Rol_ARR.System_Roles0 AS 'Role'
FROM
System_Resource_N_ARR System_Resource_N_ARR,
System_System_Rol_ARR System_System_Rol_ARR
WHERE
System_System_Rol_ARR.ItemKey = System_Resource_N_ARR.ItemKey
AND System_System_Rol_ARR.System_Roles0='Router'
ORDER BY
System_Resource_N_ARR.Resource_Names0 

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"Peter" <peter@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OfNo6DUTEHA.2692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> When doing a network discovery and there are routers, hobs, switches etc
in
> the IP Range of the scan, will SMS 2003 find those entries?
>
> Also, where can i see those devices in SMS?
>
> Will these devices later go away from the database because of lack of SMS
> client possibilities?
>
>

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