Universal Device Details

Almost every Asset Manager report and dashboard provides this set of device details:

Device Type

Category of appliance (e.g., general purpose, bridge, router, firewall, hub, load balancer, phone, printer, proxy server, remote management, switch)

DNS

Domain Name Service

IP

The Internet Protocol address (e.g., 10.100.50.102) IPv4 and IPv6

MAC

Media Access Control address (e.g., 01:23:45:67:89:ab)

Model

Typically, an alphanumeric identifier (e.g., ff79ew0e)

OS

The operating system (e.g., Cisco IOS, Linux, FreeBSD)

Router ID

The 32 bit number assigned to each router running the OSPF protocol (e.g., ospf routerid 5.1.1.49)

Vendor

 The manufacturer of the device (e.g, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Microsof)

Version

 Unique software release number (e.g., Fedora Linux, 15.0, 8.x)