Plug-ins: Report PnP Devices

The Report PnP Devices plug-in generates a report displaying the USB, FireWire and PCMCIA devices currently connected to computers in the network and those that were connected.

The columns are defined as follows:

• Description - the description of the device provided by its vendor.

• Device Information - the additional information about the device provided by its vendor.

• Connected to - the interface where the device is connected (USB, FireWire or PCMCIA).

• Class - the class of the device provided by Windows.

• Class description - the description of the device's class provided by Windows.

• Present - indicates whether the device is currently connected or not (Yes or No).

• DeviceID - the unique identification string of the device provided by its vendor.

• Driver - the name of the driver that is controlling this device.

You can add reported USB devices to the USB Devices Database using the context menu available via a right mouse click.

Before you can use this plug-in, you should select the information you want to include in reports. You can do this by pressing the Settings button below the plug-ins list in the Scan Network dialog box.

NOTE: In order to retrieve PnP devices from Windows Vista/7 and Windows Server 2008 computers, you should allow remote access to the PnP interface on those computers. You can do it via modifying the policy as described in this article: support.microsoft.com/kb/947040.

This plug-in does not work for computers running Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.