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title: "Understand recognition coverage"
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description: "Understand how recognition coverage in Lansweeper measures how much of what you discover can be fully identified, and why coverage gaps appear."
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published: 2026-06-19T18:12:21Z
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Understand recognition coverage

Lansweeper can detect that a device is on your network without being able to fully identify it. Recognition coverage measures how much of what you've found Lansweeper can actually profile, per IP range.

The **Coverage** page shows this by IP location: how many assets were found in each configured range, how many couldn't be identified, and the resulting coverage percentage.

## **What each column shows**

| Column | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **Name** | The label for the IP location. Manage these in **Assets** > **Categorization** > **IP Locations**. |
| **IP range** | The address range, for example, 10.128.32.0 – 10.128.32.255. |
| **Discovery system** | The Lansweeper source(s) that discovered assets in this IP range: an IT sensor, OT sensor, traffic sensor, or IT agent. |
| **Assets** | All assets observed in this range, recognized and unrecognized combined. |
| **Unrecognized assets** | Assets Lansweeper couldn't fully identify. Select the number to see a filtered list of those assets. |
| **Recognized coverage** | The percentage of assets that are fully recognized. A higher percentage means more of your network is known. |

              What counts as recognized

              

An asset counts as recognized when all three of the following are true: the manufacturer is populated, the model is populated, and the asset type isn't Network Device or Unknown.

## **Assets outside your IP locations**

If a banner appears at the top of the page, activity was detected from IP ranges you haven't configured as IP locations yet. Those assets don't appear in the table.

To add them:

1. Select **Manage IP locations** in the banner. Alternatively, go to Assets > Categorization > IP locations.
2. Open the **Recommended** tab.
3. Select the ranges relevant to your environment and select Add to managed.

Once added, the new IP locations appear in Coverage. Sort by recognized coverage (lowest first) to see where to focus next.

## **What low coverage means**

A low coverage percentage means Lansweeper can see devices communicating in a range but can't tell you what they are. The usual causes: no active scanner is pointed at the range, credentials aren't configured, IT agents aren't installed, or required ports are blocked.

See [Improve recognition coverage](/v1/docs/improve-recognition-coverage) to close the gaps.