After an auto-discovery is completed, the device type is automatically specified. For example, the device type is attached after the device name like [Linux/Unix], [Cisco device], etc.
How to identify and get the device type?
How to identify and get a device type?
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This is usually done by inspecting the response sent from the device during Auto Discovery. You could use PRTGapi's System-Information retrieval option and/or parse the device name to retrieve what PRTG has found out :)
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