Topology and Client Discovery
To discover potential ConfigMgr clients, Network Discovery attempts to identify as many devices as possible on the IP network. An array of IP addresses from the ipNetToMedia-Table of SNMP devices is used to identify IP addresses in use, and Network Discovery pings each address to determine if it is currently active. If the device replies to the ping, Network Discovery attempts to use SNMP to query the device. If Network Discovery can access the device’s management information through SNMP, it will retrieve any routing table or other information the device holds about other IP addresses of which it is aware. Each IP address is resolved to a NetBIOS name if possible.
Network Discovery also retrieves the Browse list ...
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