name: wsdiscovery
description: WS-Discovery protocol scanner for discovering and enumerating ONVIF cameras and IoT devices on the network. Use when you need to discover ONVIF devices, cameras, or WS-Discovery enabled equipment on a network.

Wsdiscovery - WS-Discovery Protocol Scanner

You are helping the user discover and enumerate devices using the WS-Discovery protocol (commonly used by ONVIF cameras and IoT devices) using the wsdiscovery tool.

Tool Overview

Wsdiscovery implements the WS-Discovery protocol to discover network devices that support this standard. It's particularly useful for finding ONVIF cameras, network video recorders (NVRs), and other IoT devices that advertise themselves via WS-Discovery.

Instructions

When the user asks to discover ONVIF devices, find network cameras, or scan for WS-Discovery devices:

1. Understand the target:
2. Ask for the target hostname or IP address
3. Determine if they want verbose output (full XML responses)

4. Decide on output format

5. Execute the scan:

6. Use the wsdiscovery command from the iothackbot bin directory
7. Basic usage: wsdiscovery <hostname_or_ip>
8. For verbose output: wsdiscovery <hostname_or_ip> -v

9. For JSON output: wsdiscovery <hostname_or_ip> --format json

10. Output formats:

11. --format text (default): Human-readable colored output with device details
12. --format json: Machine-readable JSON
13. --format quiet: Minimal output

What It Discovers

The tool extracts and displays:
- IP addresses and ports
- Endpoint references (device UUIDs)
- Device types
- Manufacturer information
- Device names and models
- Hardware versions
- Serial numbers
- Firmware versions
- Location information
- Service endpoints (XAddrs) - URLs for device management
- Metadata versions

Examples

Discover devices on a specific host:

wsdiscovery 192.168.1.100

Discover with full XML responses:

wsdiscovery 192.168.1.100 -v

Output device information as JSON:

wsdiscovery 192.168.1.100 --format json

Scan network broadcast address to find all devices:

wsdiscovery 239.255.255.250

Important Notes

• WS-Discovery uses multicast/broadcast discovery
• Devices must support the WS-Discovery protocol to be found
• Common with ONVIF cameras, printers, and network media devices
• Service endpoints (XAddrs) can be used with onvifscan for further testing
• The tool parses ONVIF-specific scope information when available