How did the discovery procedure find my city name on a laptop?

I have a small home test lab, consisiting of a DSL router, my DC, my laptop that is attached to the domain and my girlfriends laptop that is on a separate workgroup. I downloaded the NPM, did the discovery for my local IP scheme and it found 10.0.0.1(dsl router), 10.0.0.2(my DC), 10.0.0.3(my laptop connected to my domain) and 10.0.0.7(my girlfriends laptop that is on a workgroup). This all seemed normal, then I got into the Atlas to create a map. I looked at my nodes and found the router, DC and my laptop all listed under "unknown", then I found my girlfriends laptop under "Coconut Creek". I jus happen to live in Coconut Creek, Florida. How did the Atlas know to put her workstation under "Coconut Creek", yet put the rest of the nodes under "unknown"? She only has XP home edition installed as her OS. All info is appreciated, I a making an all out effort to learn to user ORION NPM over the next couple weeks....thanks

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bshopp

She must have SNMP enabled on her laptop and none of your other devices do and it uses the community string public.

We use SNMP to discover the machine type and name

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bshopp

She must have SNMP enabled on her laptop and none of your other devices do and it uses the community string public.

We use SNMP to discover the machine type and name

thor2923

Thanks, ok so I enabled SNMP on my laptop. Do I need to do anything else or do I just wait for the Network Atlas to find it?

Also, my girlfiend's laptop that shows up under "Coconut Creek" in the ATLAS, is still "unknown" when I go NPM. Is there something I have to do to pull over the location name onto the map inside the NPM? I am still learning about snmp, all input is appreciated...thanks