Spiceworks inventory

jwhitman · 2016-02-11T18:04:15.000Z

I have about 200 machines on the network and the discovery is having alot of issues with the wmi configurations on the machines -

Can I just install an agent on each machine to make the discovery process more reliable and complete?

Rod-IT · 2016-02-11T18:37:23.000Z

See my posts here

How do I get WMI information into network scan? Spiceworks Support

[2015-11-26_1658.png][2015-11-26_1700.png][2015-11-26_1701.png] Okay, I'm trying to figure this out but it is driving me crazy. We've got quite a few computers in our organisation that are failing to inventory properly. I've picked on one called w790220 because it happens to be next door. When I go to rescan I can provide it with wmi credentials and it gives me the "Yep! worked" message. I let the rescan process and the details never update. However when, on the machine spiceworks is running …

Rod-IT · 2016-02-11T18:38:19.000Z

While you can use the agent, try to avoid it for machines physically connected for now, WMI is lighter and easy to configure