I would like to see a robust scanning engine with the same capabilities as that in 7.5, that could be deployed on a machine in the local environment, and then push the data gathered to the cloud Inventory. It should be schedulable, be able to authenticate to scanned machines, etc.
Installing agents on all our machines is not going to happen.
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I would like to see a robust scanning engine with the same capabilities as that in 7.5, that could be deployed on a machine in the local environment, and then push the data gathered to the cloud Inventory. It should be schedulable, be able to authenticate to scanned machines, etc.
Installing agents on all our machines is not going to happen.
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What do you mean by robust scanning engine?
The discontinued legacy Windows edition of Spiceworks Inventory did not have a single scanning engine as far as I remember. It had several components instead, e.g. for port scanning, SNMP scanning, WMI scanning, SSH scanning, cloud scanning. I don’t remember if there were additional scanners included. And the documentation of Spiceworks Inventory Online promised already for years to add SNMP for scanning. Only, I didn’t find such a feature request. That’s why I added one (https://community.spiceworks.com/feature_request/show/Inventory%20online/7174). And as I liked to have additional options and scanners in the discontinued edition, I created feature requests to add WMI scanning (https://community.spiceworks.com/feature_request/show/Inventory%20online/7175), and SSH scanning (https://community.spiceworks.com/feature_request/show/Inventory%20online/7176) too. Feel free to vote up my feature requests. Feel free to add additional feature requests, e.g. for cloud services / discovery. I don’t know if we need also for discovery of SDN (software defined networks). As a former software developer, I guess adding such features one by one will get implemented sooner than a huge scanner offering all such options at once.
Your description is a better representation of what I meant by “robust scanning engine.” The legacy Spiceworks inventory only needed to be given credentials for various scan types, and it did the rest. It was also very good at identifying network equipment and devices, including switches and SIP phones.
