Unmanaged device discovery (UDD) provides many ways to scan for and detect unmanaged devices on your network.
This is a Break Down of the Scanner for Unmanaged Device Discovery for users Quick Reference.
Here are the basic UDD scanning methods:
- Network scan: Looks for computers by doing an ICMP ping sweep. This is the most thorough search, but also the slowest. You can limit the search to certain IP and subnet ranges. By default this option uses NetBIOS to try and gather information about the device.
- IP OS fingerprinting: Use nmap to try and discover more about a device, such as what operating system it is running.
- SNMP: UDD uses SNMP to discover devices. Click Configure to enter information about SNMP on your network.
- LANDesk CBA installed: Looks for the standard LANDesk agent (CBA) on computers. This option discovers computers that have the LANDesk products installed.
- LANDesk PDS2 installed: Checks to see if the pds.exe service is installed and running. PDS is part of the CBA agent
- NT domain: Looks for devices in a domain you specify. Discovers members whether the computer is on or off.
- LDAP: Looks for devices in a directory you specify. Discovers members whether the computer is on or off.
- IPMI: Looks for servers enabled with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface, which allows you to access many features regardless of whether the server is turned on or not, or what state the OS may be in.
- Virtual hosts: Looks for servers running VMware ESX Server. These servers appear in the Virtual hosts folder.
Break Down of the Scanner for Unmanaged Device Discovery
Here is a simplified annotated screenshot of the Unmanaged Device Discovery Scanner window for users quick reference.
