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Hi Support,

We have our central spiceworks server with 3 additional remote sites. On the scan settings of the central server we have setup our IP ranges (local to that site) that we want to scan, added the credentials and set it to run daily. When specifying the IP ranges on the remote sites (local to their own sites), we get no such option to set this schedule. How does the scan scheduling work for remote sites and how can we get it setup so IP ranges specified on all servers are scanned daily at a time we specify?

Thanks,

Elliot

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The scan is split into two parts

  1. discovery - this is controlled bu the ‘local’ SPW server and says what ip-subnets to discover

  2. inventory - this is controlled by the central server and will tell the remote servers to do the scans by device type using the remote servers stored credentials

SO you’ll need to specify ‘workstations, laptops’ on the inventory scan on a daily basis for example.

If you have fun with timezones (we do!) then you need to schedule in the scans every X hours to make sure you hit the time of day that devices are switched on and on the network

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Thanks Martin. Managed to get my head around the Discovery Scan and Inventory Scan ideas. So i feel the Discovery scan is working as we intend. I’m looking at implementing an Inventory scan as follows:

  • Create a new group in our Inventory and specify the group members using IP range(s). This would involve 8 different subnets across our network and would need to be converted to CIDR. Is that correct and the only way to do it?
  • Set a schedule based on the grouping created above from our central server. All remote sites would then get this task from the central server and run it on there portion of the network. My question with this is if I’ve specified ranges from the central server that include all subnets, will each remote site try and scan every device in that group? or only the devices on their subnet?

Any clarification would be great. I’m aware i could be over-complicating this but just want to get the “best practice” way to inventory our network effectively.

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You could create the custom group using the sitename , so anything that site would get scanned

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That sounds like a much simpler solution. I will investigate this.

Thanks