Unexpected Benefits...

[SlightlyLoony]

Normally Discovery uses the ping utility to determine whether there is a device at a particular IP address. One of our customers located in France ran into a slight difficulty with this, however. Some of their MID servers were installed on localized (to French) Windows servers, and on these servers even the ping utility is localized. The MID server's code expects English-language results from ping, so this didn't work well at all.

Shazzam to the rescue! While this wasn't part of the reason for creating Shazzam, a nice-but-unexpected side benefit is that Shazzam doesn't depend on running any utilities (like ping) on the host server, so it doesn't run into any localization-related issues. The rest of the exploration of Windows targets uses WMI, and it works the same way on localized or non-localized machines.

So our customer simply turned on Shazzam, and now Discovery is working like a champ for them!