Lansweeper offers a variety of methods to scan your network, most of which can be configured in the Scanning > Scanning Targets section of the web console. You can use one or more of these scanning methods, depending on your personal needs and prefer...
There are two main ways you can scan a Windows domain or workgroup computer: with a scanning agent or without a scanning agent. Regardless of which option you choose, scanned Windows data includes disks, event log entries, installed updates, logged o...
This article explains the effect of enabling Windows rename detection. When a network asset is being scanned, Lansweeper needs to determine whether the asset is already present in the Lansweeper database. This is accomplished by comparing some specif...
Lansweeper offers the Active Directory Domain scanning target. This is an agentless, fully automated scanning target suitable for scanning Windows computers that are part of an Active Directory domain. Active Directory Domain can be configured to sca...
Active Directory User/Group Path is an agentless, scheduled scanning target suitable for scanning Active Directory users and Active Directory user and computer groups. It only scans AD users and AD groups, not computer objects. Active Directory User/...
Windows Computer is an agentless, scheduled scanning target that scans any individual Windows domain or workgroup computer specified by you. You can submit an unlimited number of Windows Computer targets for scanning and specify a separate scanning s...
Due to their reliance on the old SMB1 protocol, scanning targets of the type Workgroup are marked as deprecated. It is strongly advised to use other types of scanning, e.g. IP Range targets, to scan workgroup assets. The Workgroup target is an agentl...
When a network asset is being scanned, Lansweeper needs to determine whether the asset is already present in the Lansweeper database. It does this by comparing some specific data pulled from the asset being scanned with data already present in the da...
Scanning non-Windows machines like Linux, Unix and Mac computers, VMware servers, printers, switches etc takes very little network traffic. One full first-time Windows computer scan takes 4 MB if you are scanning without a scanning agent. Subsequent ...
Apart from scanning Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows computers, as well as VMware servers, Lansweeper is also capable of scanning network devices. Some examples of network devices are: cameras, firewalls, mail servers, music systems, NAS devices, printer...
