USB devices

The USB devices tab shows a tree-like presentation of the USB hardware devices connected to the host.

Figure 1. USB devices

USB devices tab of the This asset page showing a hierarchical tree of connected USB devices and detailed information for a selected integrated camera, including device type, hardware ID, vendor, status, and location paths

The USB devices tab displays a hierarchical tree of the universal serial bus (USB) devices connected to the host. Selecting a device in the tree shows its detailed properties in the detail panel, which includes these fields:

Choose

A dropdown for selecting the field to filter the tree by.

Add filter

Applies the selected field and entered value as a filter to the tree.

Friendly name

The human-readable name of the USB device.

Product name

The product name resolved from the USB vendor and product ID database.

Vendor

The vendor resolved from the USB vendor ID database.

Device type

The category of the USB device, for example, Universal Serial Bus controllers or Human Interface Devices.

Description

A description of the device as reported by the operating system (OS).

Physical object name

The physical object name of the device in the kernel namespace.

Hardware ID

The hardware identifier string, including the USB vendor ID (VID) and product ID (PID), used by the OS to match the device against drivers.

Status

The operational status of the device, for example, OK.

Can be disabled

Indicates whether the device can be disabled.

Can be enabled

Indicates whether the device can be enabled.

Can be ejected

Indicates whether the device can be safely ejected.

Parent ID

The instance identifier of the parent device in the hardware tree.

Location information

A text string identifying the port and hub where the device is connected, for example, Port_#0001.Hub_#0002.

Location paths

One or more structured paths that trace the device's position through the Windows device tree, from the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) root down to the specific USB port. For example, PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1400)#USBROOT(0)#USB(1)#USB(3).