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I’m probably misunderstanding something here, but I have a spiceworks installation with a separate machine acting as a scanner. My intention was to have that second handle all the scanning so that the load came off the primary machine. But, as I look at my inventory now, I see all my workstations have recent updated times, but very old last scanned dates. Is the remote scanner capable of doing full scans? If so, I must have it misconfigured.

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Are you using remote sites?

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Yes.

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a remote collector will collect the data and feed it back to the main site, it doesn’t mean the main site is doing the scanning.

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That was my intention. However, now all my inventoried PCs show very old Last Scan dates and very recent Last Updated dates. So, the remote site scans are executing but are not incrementing the Last Scan date.

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so what changed that might impact the scanner, scanning the devices

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I disabled all scans from the primary SpiceWorks machine and implemented the Remote Site to handle scanning.

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did you add the ranges?

Settings, inventory, device scanning, if you didn’t how will it know what to scan?

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Yes, I did. I even broke the ranges by subnets to spread the load.

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Add a single IP for a known device that is online and scan it

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As a follow-up, I think Remote Collectors are a bit confusing. The Central Server (your original install) dictates the schedules, so you need to ensure those exist on it. But, the scan ranges come from the Remote Collector itself.

So you want to ensure you have scan ranges defined on the Remote Collector, but none on the Central Server. But you also want to ensure you have schedules defined on the Central Server though there are no scan ranges.

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Jackie, thank you! That’s the bit I was missing. That bit of information will get me squared away.