Question Network Discovery Utility

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Hi:

I am developing a network discovery utility in ASP.NET (VB.NET). The utility would crawl the complete network and find out maximum details about all the devices that

are connected to it. After some research i have found out that i can get the complete information about PCs and Servers using WMI but i am unable to find a way to get

information about other types of network devices such as Network Printers, Routers, Switches, IP Phones, Handheld devices etc. Can anyone point out in the right

direction please?


Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.


Thanks and regards,


Umer.