can nagios discover active IPs in LAN environment ?

[J. Bakshi]

Morris, Patrick wrote:
> J. Bakshi wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> There is always the option to ping an IP to detect if it is up or not.
>> But Is there any script which can be used with nagios to *Discover* the
>> active IPs with in a LAN ?  If the IPs then connected with user names we
>> can see who are there.
>
> There are plenty of tools to do network discovery (nmap comes to
> mind).  It's not one of Nagios's strong points.
>

nmap is more than an  IP discover tool. I am looking for such a simple
tool which can be integrated with nagios  and simply point out the
active machine in the lan. I wonder if there is any third party script
which can do it with nagios.

Thanks

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