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Hey guys,

Long time spiceworks user and finally getting the opportunity to install it in my workplace. (Integrated it at my last job)

So essentially we are roughly 5-600 devices 30+ sites and I’m trying to figure out the best way to do this.

Should I simply do one install and set up all my IP ranges

Or can I do one range and do a scan like 192.168.1-50.1-254 (or something like that, is there a way instead of entering 192.168.1.1-254,192.168.2.1-254 etc)

Should I set up remote sites on all the servers

Network agents on the servers (the most important of our scans) and then do scans from there.

I just dont want the server to be constantly doing scans, cause I would imagine 600 computers would take a while

Thanks

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Are you 5-600 per site or all together 5-600?

I breakup my scans quite a bit:

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Agents are for devices that dont get connected to the business lan very often.

The remote site mode is designed as a full installation that scans a remote network then sends the information back to your central installation.

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600 (computers) total, roughly 20+ computers per site, then certain sites 50+
And then printers and all that jazz as well.

Origionally set up IP ranges, seemed like it was not necessarily crashing but definately turned the server into a slower walk (well just spiceworks)
I can increase the specs to it (virtual server) if need be.
I’ve started installing the remote agents (done about 12 sites so far) but thats just so dam tedious and its seeming inaccurate.
Saying one site hasnt been able to connect for 5 days, another for 4 hours (others all fine)
Logging into the server and opening spiceworks doesnt restore the connecting.

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I definately didnt have them broken out like you though it was just scanning all computers.

So that seems like that was probably my number one mistake and I was setting myself up for failure

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What are your current vm specs for your central install?
Mine runs on a win7 vm, 2vcpus, 6gb ram.
It’s usually busy, but never pegged.

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Sitting on 4GB of ram and 4 cores of 2.7GHz server 2008r2

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I have seen where 4 cores can actually slow down virtual servers depending on the resources it has access to.

I would start with breaking up the scans a bit to see if that helps bring back the responsiveness.

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Yep deleting everything and going to re-set up the IP range.

I’ll keep you posted.

Thank you for the advice.