I just installed spiceworks on my windows 2008 domain controller in the main office. I have two other remote offices and each has a DC and deferent ip address subnet. All three location are connected thru vpn. When I run a scan it only discovered my main office devices. It did not see the other remote office devices. I know I should add these subnets to my scan. but how?
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To minimize the resource requirements of your main site’s Spiceworks instance, I would recommend utilizing remote collectors at these remote offices: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Remote_Collectors . That way the scanning is done by the remote collector at the remote site and data sent back to your main instance of Spiceworks.
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Don’t get me wrong here…you could potentially add ip ranges to your Spiceworks instance for the subnets for the remote locations (given that your Spiceworks server can actually contact the devices at the remote sites) → go to Settings → Network Scan and add the ip ranges. But, that will add a bunch of scan traffic over the VPN that is going to slow down the Spiceworks server at your main site. Remote collectors are really the best practice here.
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Remote collectors are awesome. But is a bit overkill if the remote site has less than 25 workstations. Doesn’t take a whole lot to scan over the VPN. I was doing it to about 20 workstations across a site-to-site VPN.
All you need to do to add the scan range is click Inventory at the top of the page, then settings, Network scan and then click “Add IP Range” button in the first section.
Real simple.
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To remote collect or not to remote collect. That is the question.
I guess it really depends on your connection speed between the various offices and the resources you have available lat the two sub-sites.
Also, if you just have like 10-20 at each site, you could use the remote agent, but that would require that it be installed on each computer.
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