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Current setup is: My central site has all of the tickets and stores inventory. All the remote sites scan and send the data back to the central site. However, I have questions on schedule scanning interactions with a central server and remote sites because it’s not too clear.

On a remote site it has the following options:

  1. Default discovery scan starting hour (0 = midnight) (0-23)

  2. Default discovery scan repeat interval (in hours) (1-12)

  3. Enable schedule per network search range

  4. Enable scheduled scanning

If I have #3 enable, and configure that, does that override 1 and 2 or will 1 and 2 still run?

If I have 4 disabled, will that still run 3 or is that just for 1 and 2?

If I have #3 enabled, and set the frequency to Daily at… Midnight and choose just 1 day (say Monday), will it still scan Daily or just for the days I check?

With remote sites scanning, and no networks added to the central server, the Network Scan option does nothing, correct?

Reason being we have over a thousand devices and having it scan in the middle of the day brings our ticketing system performance way down, we’d like to optimize it as much as possible. Thanks

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Hey Charles! To start with, I’d recommend you take a look here:

http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Spiceworks_Pro_Settings#Network

That should explain most of the settings you’re wondering about (and more).

To answer your specific questions:

Option 4 turns off ALL SCANNING in the app. No scanning will be performed at all.

Option 3 basically turns off option 2, and allows Discovery scans to be performed based on each IP range.

Each Remote Collector has it’s own Discovery scan schedule, so each site can be tweaked for discovery scans.

The central server controls the Group Scans, which are controlled in the Schedules section in Settings → Network Scan. These are the scans that actually update the devices that are in Inventory. The IP ranges are just for detecting new devices on the network.

My guess would be that the Group Scans are what’s causing your performance grief midday.