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Morning Spiceheads,

been a while since ive posted on here, moved jobs to a MSP, and was wanting to know can you install and configure Network Monitor and then manage it from one location? I.e If I install it at each customer site, can I have it report back to one ‘master’ instance, or does each install be standalone and then just configure the server reporting? for Disk useage, network and such?

ta very muchly - Simon.

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I think you may be mixing the two different Spiceworks products…
The standard Spiceworks Inventory app that scans your network on a schedule will do the things you ask for. You will need a central install at your office and separate installs at your customers sites. The installations at your customers sites can be configured as “Remote Collectors” and reports their findings to your central installation. You will get alerts on disk usage and others things you configure to get alerted for.
The Spiceworks Network Monitor is a live monitoring tool - created to give live feedback on the most important devices. This tool monitors CPU, RAM, disk and network usage. To be able to do what you wish for with that app, you´ll need very good WAN connections and probably a VPN directly into your customers networks.

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Cheers Henrik, That’s given me a better understanding of what I want to do! Ive installed both Inventory and Network Monitor on a test computer at a customer site this morning and having a look at what I can get it to do.

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Best of luck!
Btw, it is not a recommended setup to have both Apps on the same machine, as they both use WMI an SNMP to gather information…

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Awhhh, That might answer why I was having some issues! - Ill address it next week. :slight_smile: