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A GUI method of seeing local network devices Apps
The recent tip to use ping to find devices on your local network was new to me even though I've been using Un*x since the days of NeXTSTEP, so you shouldn't ever feel like there's a "too simple" tip when it comes to stuff like this. You never know who will learn something!

The tool I use to get a survey of my network devices is the freeware WakeOnLan, which is a nice GUI program and widget. It does a nice job of listing what devices are on your network, showing IP address, NetBIOS name (if available; if not you can put in your own), and MAC address number (note that's not short for Macintosh :-)

I haven't used any of the actual "Wake" functions of the program, but it does a good job listing devices that it finds.

[robg adds: I think we've got the network inventory methods covered now. The above-referenced hint is a one-command Unix statement; this hint is a Unix script that works with a Perl module, and finally, today's tip which works simply in the OS X GUI. In my testing, however, WakeOnLan didn't see all my network devices--in particular, the network printer was missing (even though ping showed it).]
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A GUI method of seeing local network devices
Authored by: Coumerelli on Jun 09, '06 10:25:48AM

nice. It found all but 3 devices on my work's network (out of about 70 - I'm the sys admin). The three it didn't see are on HP Direct Jets incidentally. So, pretty good. Mostly, I'd just want to see what computers are/are not on.

Thanks for the link!

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A GUI method of seeing local network devices
Authored by: luomat on Jun 09, '06 11:27:27AM

WakeOnLan did find two networked printers on my LAN.

note the "scan subnets" button is essentially a "refresh" button. and if the name doesn't appear on the left column, double click to add it.



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A GUI method of seeing local network devices
Authored by: mike666 on Jun 09, '06 12:19:20PM
Don't forget the wonderful Bonjour Browser, my favorite tool of choice to not only see what devices are on the network, but also what services they're running. Makes it easy to locate and stamp out errant BitTorrent installs and whatnot.

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A GUI method of seeing local network devices
Authored by: paul@wishard on Jun 12, '06 07:33:52AM
NmapFE - This is an OS X port of the very popular unix nmap program. It provides a whole host of options including;
ping an entire subnet or just a range of IP addreses
Guess the OS that is running on an IP address
List open ports that the IP is listening on
and much more.
This is a very good diagnostic tool for trouble shooting connectivity probelms.
It is available at http://faktory.org/m/software/nmap/
I havent tried the WakeOnLan but I'll pull it down and give it try.

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