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I am installing Spiceworks 7 for a large customer, some 9000+ devices over a dozen remote sites. We have installed remote collectors at each of the sites. As they are using SW for asset management and tracking, not PC management and monitoring, the plan is to scan each of the sites maybe once per week.

Looking at the advanced performance issues page (http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Advanced_Performance_Issues), I was under the impression that the Network Scan settings on the primary SW machine would dictate the schedule the remotes would use. To make this work, I created custom groups that were based on IP ranges. I then added each of those groups to the “Network Scan” settings page under schedule.

But this doesn’t appear to be working. All my remote scans appear to be working hourly.

Then I come across the Enable Schedule Per Network Range In SW 7.0 how-to (http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/40467-enable-schedule-per-network-range-in-sw-7-0) that makes me think I need to handle all of this at the remote level using advanced settings.

So which is it? How do you properly schedule those scans?

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you need to schedule the remote scans on the remote collector, it then sends the results back to the main server. Ie each remote collector is responsible for it’s own scheduling/credentials etc

have a read of this for more info…

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

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Ok, I’ve updated my collectors to run as specific times by changing the pro setting to enable scheduled scanning and setting things up to run tomorrow morning. Now I have these scheduled to run on a single day but the UI says that it will run daily. Is this a bug?

Also, is there a way from the central server to schedule when AD scanning takes place or does it always start at midnight (Inventory | Settings | AD Configuration | AD scanning frequency, starting from midnight each day)?

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Everything appears to have scanned correctly now. Thanks!