1. A method of extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an SNMP communication protocol, comprising: accessing the monitored device using the SNMP communication protocol to obtain first information from the monitored device; attempting to extract vendor information from the obtained first information; if the vendor information was extracted from the first information, storing the vendor information in a storage device; and if the vendor information was not extracted from the first information, accessing the monitored device using the SNMP communication protocol to obtain second information, different from the first information, from the monitored device; attempting to extract vendor information from one of the first information and second information; and if the vendor information was extracted from the second information, storing the vendor information in the storage device.