Re: Network discovery Problems

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From: Dave Halperin (Dave_Halperin_at_bose.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:42:35 -0400

If the undescovered machines sit on the other side of a router and the
router does not allow annonymous access, then you cannot query the ARP table
and it will fail.
"Steve" <sbobosky@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:u3A3ZFwqEHA.2964@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Try using the Enhanced System Discovery tool from myitforum.com. Discovers
> from NT 4.0 domains without a problem.
>
>
http://myitforum.techtarget.com/downloads/default.asp?srt=42&w=3&se=SMS+2003&p=5
>
> "kiwi_vtr" <kiwivtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F46F4E03-9FD1-47FE-B6B2-7227E0E63B24@microsoft.com...
> > Have had SMS2003 running on top of Server 2003 for about a week now, we
> > have
> > 14 vlans and wins environment (no AD).
> > It has only discovered about 42 devices in this time, i have setup all
our
> > vlans in the subnet options of network discovery, added some snmp
strings,
> > etc etc
> > Why is it not discovering things, Intels LANDesk discoverd all 380
devices
> > in a matter of hours !!!
>
>

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