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I have always used Advanced IP Scanner if I was in a situation where I just needed to do a quick scan of the network.
We already have paid enterprise programs we use, but just wanted to start a discussion on what the general favorite software in the type of situations where you just need to download something to a clients computer for a quick scan.
These are the ones I am aware of and have used myself in the past but usually just end up going to Advanced IP Scanner.
If there is anything out there that is similar, but has more features - especially the ability to grab stuff like workstation model's serial numbers, hardware info etc.
Again, we have multiple paid tools that does all of this and even have them synced to ITGlue. But always nice to have a free tool in these one-off situations.
Advanced IP Scanner
Angry IP Scanner
Advanced Port Scanner
Not everything with an IP address is a computer - I found none of these suggestions returned all active IP addresses - in fact most returned very few. My home network has a combination of wired and wireless devices and two routers, mobile phones, TV, PVR, Apple AirPort and probably a few things I have forgotten. I used the following to scan all addresses on the 192.168.1.xxx subnet:
for /L %i in (0,1,255) do ping -n 1 -w 250 192.168.1.%i>>ipaddress.txt
The resulting file ipaddress.txt contains the ping results for all addresses and I looked for those with "Received = 1" - currently 16 addresses returned a result - I only have 4 computers in the house - and they were not all on.
You could do the arp -a command to show all ARP entries in the table about computers on your network.
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