N-able N-central - Device Discovery - Workstation vs Laptop

Last Modified

Wed Nov 30 21:41 GMT 2016

Description

The following article explains how N-able N-central classifies a device as a laptop or a workstation.

Environment

All N-able N-central versions

Solution

During device discovery, the probe will perform WMI queries to try and determine the device class for the device itself.

For a device to be classified as a Laptop, the battery information would have to be found in WMI for the device. If that is not found, then what will happen is the device will be classified as a Workstation.