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Looking for setup details to configure Spiceworks to monitor multiple subnets. What are the best resources to accomplish this?

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The short answer is Yes.

To get the best out of what SW has to offer, you should provide a little more detail. What does your network look like. Is everything LAN based, or do you have remote site. Are these remote sites connected 24x7? How many nodes do you want to monitor… and so on…

If you have a specific configuration in mind we can talk about it…

-Geo

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We are connected 24/7 over a Private WAN. The WAN consists of 6 sites, each having their own Gateway. We can perform any other network function (print, login, file copy, etc) between sites. Spiceworks sees other networks (/22’s etc) but the Inventory is not reporting all devices on those networks.

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Depending on the number of nodes at each site and your want speed, you might want to consider setting up remote collectors to funnel local data to your central SW server.

If you look in the logs do you see any error messages during the scans? But depending on the link bandwidth, WMI may be timing out. But that would only be a guess. You WILL get better SW performance if you use remote collectors.

-Geo

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Thank you. There’s my weekend project! :wink:

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The other thing that just came to mind was to set your scan speed to slow, fast or normal may not wait long enough in a WAN environment.

What a way to spend a weekend, cheers.

-Geo

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I am running spiceworks over about eleven subnets with no problem. I also run a bunch of other tools but spiceworks has very good inventory and notification if something goes down.

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Remote collectors are your way to go if you want to scan things over a wan.

here are 2 articals on how to do it

http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Remote_Collectors

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/283

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