[Fusioninventory-user] Requirements for detecting unknow device

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 10/10/2013 12:16, Arnaud Meurou a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I need to get basic informations of Wise Thinos client such as name and
> Ip configuration.
>
> So far, i can ping machines and got some infos manually with NMAP but a
> FI NetDiscovery task give me "no device found" as a result.
>
> I've got two question :
>
> 1. Do FI agent use nmap for netdiscovery? on Windows agent ?
Yes; if installed.

> 2. Is a ping good enough for FI to detect a device and represent it as
> an unknow device ?
Yes.

Those questions, as well as others, are documented here:
http://www.fusioninventory.org/documentation/fi4g/networkdiscovery/

-- 
Guillaume