Network Scan For Mac



Colasoft MAC Scanner is used for scanning IP address and MAC address. It can automatically detect all subnets according to the IP addresses configured on multiple NICs of a machine and scan the MAC addresses and IP addresses of defined subnets.

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How does it work?

Choose a subnet from the Local Subnet combo box and click the Start button or F5 to execute scan. Colasoft MAC Scanner will display scan results in the list, including IP address, MAC address, Host Name and Manufacture. It will group all IP addresses according to MAC address if a MAC address is configured with multiple IP addresses. The scanned results can be exported into .txt file for future reference.

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Learning has never been so easy!

So are you trying scan Mac's from Spiceworks and having some trouble, this post will help you.

To scan Mac's their are some things you need to change on both Spiceworks and the Mac's them self’s.

12 Steps total

Step 1: Part 1

This part you will configure the Mac to be able to be scanned by Spiceworks

Step 2: Open Internet and network sharing

# Click the Apple icon in the top right (or left depending on your setup)
# Go to System preferences
# Internet and network sharing

Step 3: Remote login

You should see something for 'Remote login'
open that.

Make sure that your computer name is alpha-numeric and does not have any special characters or spaces.

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Step 4: Check the names match up

Go back to System preferences then network:

Be sure that both your AirPort (if applicable) and Ethernet have the WINS (under Advanced) NetBios name show the same as the computer name.

Step 5: Apply the settings

Step 6: Setup a Spiceworks Login

Most Mac's in my experience arn't on a domain, so setup a new user for Spiceworks and check you can login.

Remember these details you will need them soon.

Step 7: Part 2

Time to setup Spiceworks

Step 8: Goto Network Accounts for Scanning

# Open Spiceworks
# Go to Settings
# Network Scan

You should see a section called 'Network Accounts for Scanning'.

Step 9: Add a new SSH account

Add a SSH account, if you have a account the same on every Mac then its easier if not you will need to add each Mac's login details.

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Step 10: Add a new scan range

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At the top of that page you should see the option to add a scan range.

Enter the range and on the SSH dropdown pick the username for the Mac devices.

Step 11: Enable Scanning for Linux Software

On the network scan page, goto Additional Settings (at the bottom) then set Skip Linux Software to false.

Scan

Step 12: Scan

You should now be able to scan your network fully :-)

Published: Apr 24, 2010 · Last Updated: Aug 18, 2017

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32 Comments

  • Jalapeno
    bhole Apr 25, 2010 at 06:37pm

    Thanks Andy - handy if we ever get any Apple Mac's on our network. To be honest I read this thinking I'd missed a trick at layer 2... ;)

  • Chipotle
    Dirk8099 Apr 27, 2010 at 09:08am

    Andy, what would we do without you :)

    Thanks

  • Tabasco
    Dogleg-ACSP May 6, 2010 at 02:19am

    Top man excellent info (as always)
    I'm a Mac man now as the new CEO only wanted a Mac and not any of the Windows machines we usually use here!
    Still - It's a learning curve... :)

  • Cayenne
    sundrift Aug 10, 2010 at 06:21pm

    Nice information...

  • Thai Pepper
    Emerson Leal Aug 17, 2010 at 04:21pm

    Ok! we have just two macs at the office, but i will test it tomorrow, of course.

  • Jalapeno
    DS13X Oct 13, 2010 at 12:12pm

    Cool. What if you've added the mac to you active directory domain. Can you use a windows domain account to scan or do you have to user SSH?

  • Anaheim
    Dr. Karl Jun 12, 2011 at 04:35pm

    This worked -- outstanding step-by-step, thank you. One question on wording in Step 11. Was this:

    On the network scan page, goto Additional Settings (at the bottom) then set Skip Linux Software to false.

    Supposed to be:

    ....then set Scan Linux Software to true.' ?

  • Jalapeno
    DL@bntly Aug 18, 2011 at 04:50pm

    Very helpful, thank you.

  • Anaheim
    Steven.summone Nov 21, 2011 at 09:00am

    Sorry does not work on my iMac Snow leopard 10.6.8 The SSH server refuses to speak to my Mac machine I know the SSH is work because I tried to talk to it via the cmd line. I read in another Spicework article and it was saying spiceworks supports sshv2 and not sshv1. See below:

    'Spiceworks uses the SSH2 client, so it cannot connect to SSH servers that only understand the SSH1 protocol. This problem tends to show up when the correct login/password is used, but the test login still fails.'

    Source http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/130662-unknown-device-on-the-network

  • Serrano
    re-Barr Dec 13, 2011 at 04:32pm

    Okay so that seems to work sometimes for me... but since mine are on the domain how can i get it to work using the domain creds??? come to mention it all of mine that i have problems with are 10.6.8 lion works and leopard works... coincedence?

  • Pimiento
    LA.IT Jan 17, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Doesn't work for mine. Has there been any follow up to this? Would be helpful since I'm trying to integrate SW to handle the load of network monitoring. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be going to well.

  • Mace
    hsc5775 Feb 14, 2012 at 07:08am

    thx for share

  • Cayenne
    macfixer Feb 24, 2012 at 11:27am

    Whoa, this is useful. Thanks!

  • Serrano
    Mikey@MJCO Aug 1, 2012 at 01:25pm

    I recommend using Centrify to AD connect your Macs - makes scanning with SpiceWorks at lot simpler.

  • Ghost Chili
    Nick42 Dec 18, 2012 at 01:24am

    Glad I found this!

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