How do you use IP Scanner?
Ping Tester (Figure A) uses ICMP pings to detect devices on your network. On Windows 10, you can find this information more quickly than you could on previous. This command will scan your network from 192.168.0.1 to 255 and will display the hosts with their MAC address on your network. In case you want to display the mac address for a single client, use this command make sure you are on root or use 'sudo' sudo nmap -Pn 192.168.0.1 this command will display the host MAC address and the open ports.
IP Scanner is a cloud tool that scans your local network and returns a sortable list of the devices it discovers. Devices can be filtered, searched, and exported to CSV. By default, it detects and scans a local subnet, though you can also define a custom IP range.
What details does the IP Scanner return?
The IP Scanner lists each device’s hostname, IP address, vendor, OS, MAC address, description, open ports, and if it’s up or down. The kind of data returned depends on the type of device being scanned.
Add agents to your servers and workstations to get more detailed information like CPU, storage, memory, and network adapter details. You can even see the tickets for each device.
How do you set up the IP Scanner?
IP Scanner uses a small downloadable scan agent to give it access to your local network. To get started click Download to install the scan agent. A wizard will quickly step you through installation.
A browser page will launch and prompt you to scan the detected IP range. You can customize the IP range that will be scanned if the default range doesn’t discover all of your devices.
Scan Mac Addresses On Network
When you’re ready to take your device information collection to the next level, go ahead and click the Agent Download button, then choose Download a Collection Agent. You can get the agent for both Windows and Mac. Then you’ll just copy the agent installer to each device you want to track. Want to save even more time? You can use Group Policy (or whatever 3rd party software distribution service you prefer) to deploy the agent in your network.