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So I’ve been playing with ‘Inventory’ for about 2 months now, been very helpful and I think network mapping has a great potential.
I faced a problem while scanning devices in my domain. So I had to manually install the agent on each device. working great now.

Here is the issue, I need to install Spiceworks inventory in another location but this location has more than 70 devices, I don’t think I have the time or the patience to do it manually :D. I can’t deploy the agent remotely cause i have to input the server address and the password on the agent. is there a way to do this with a script or something? or is there a remote deploy option in spiceworks?
If anybody has experience with this, your help is much appreciated.

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It sounds to me like you should try and get scanning working properly and not bother worry about installing the agent on each machine.

Try running the Spiceworks Unknown agent on a machine that wont scan properly, it could tell you where the scanning might be going wrong.

https://community.spiceworks.com/help/Spiceworks_Unknowns_Tool

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Welcome to the community, please see below how to do so:

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/34737-deploy-the-spiceworks-agent-with-a-gpo

I would highly recommend to setup a remote collector on that location as a better solution with network scans:

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

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Also look into this:

https://community.spiceworks.com/help/Configuring_AV_Firewall#GP

This will allow your firewall to allow the scans on the systems, make sure to disable UAC on the devices.

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Configured correctly the devices shouldn’t need the agent, plus the agent has a limit of how many it should really be using as it has an impact on the resources

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