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An InstallShield custom action could be used to call a Windows command (as discussed below) to retrieve all of the machine names and IP addresses in a particular domain in a local area network. Unfortunately, InstallShield custom actions only retrieve the return code of the launched process executing a particular command. The custom action does not have access to manipulate the output from external commands executed by the custom action. However, a custom executable could be created that executes the net view command and parses the output, then the custom executable could be launched from a InstallShield EXE custom action.

The following Windows command should retrieve a list of machines names across a domain:
net view /domain:<DomainName>

where <DomainName> is the domain name for the network to search. The domain name should not include the top-level domain name (i.e. .com). Rather than specifying mydomain.com as the domain, mydomain should be specified. In that instance, the command should be as follows:
net view /domain:mydomain

Then, the output from the net view /domain:<DomainName> command would need to be parsed.

where <MachineName> is the machine name.

Additional Information

Here is a link to the online Microsoft documentation for the Net view command:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490719.aspx

Here is a link to the online Microsoft documentation for the ping command:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ping.mspx