On 8/24/2006 10:59, Bob Mariotti wrote: > I will be working with a new group that has 19 servers, 100+ desktops, 9 > physical subnets, three physical locations all running Linux flavors. > > In an attempt to get a handle on this I think an automated network > discovery tool might be in order. What immediately comes to mind is nmap. It features "magic" guessing of the OS a machine is running and newer versions also guess at what software is running behind certain ports. It can output in human or machine readable formats. It's a CLI tool that was originally developed in Linux but now also has feature parity under Win32. I think there may be some graphical X front ends but I'm not really sure how mature those are. Regardless, the documentation is excellent so a gui isn't really needed. ~Jason --
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