ipdiscover(1)

💖 ipdiscover(1) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page and we're gonna read it together like it's a group chat. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ipdiscover — the lil tool that lets OCS Inventory NG go find every device vibing on your network. it's giving network detective energy 🔍💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the IP discovery feature is literally what lets OCS Inventory NG discover all the network connected devices on the network. every single one. it ate. 👑

here's the tea though, because the way it works is lowkey iconic: the Communication server doesn't do the scanning itself, no ma'am. instead it asks a number of the most XactiveX computers running the OCS Inventory NG agent to go scan for MAC addresses in their sub network, and they do this at each run. 🦋

and before you panic — they will not scan the entire wide area network. they only scan their local network, which is defined by the couple IP address/subnet mask. so it's a very much stay-in-your-lane situation, respectfully. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• <http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php?title=Documentation:Ipdiscover> — go read the wiki bestie, it's right there 📚✨

💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

Copyright (C) 2006-2016 by OCS Inventory contributors

this library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. slay, legally speaking. ⚖️💖

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. not me being dramatic but fr fr, that part matters. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 😭

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 🙈

🫶 quick vibe check: no options, no flags, no exit codes on this page — just the discovery feature, the wiki link, and the license. that's the whole thing, and honestly? it's enough. periodt. 💅

and that's a wrap, bestie! this page was brought to you by perl v5.26.1, dated 2018-04-11, and it's filed under ipdiscover(1). mwah. 💋🌸✨