Spiceworks - up to the job?

huwdavies4 · 2016-07-27T13:27:32.000Z

Hi all.

I’d like us to use SpiceWorks for monitoring our servers and hosts. Small things initially, monitor disk space remaining, ping tests, that sort of thing as a Dashboard. Possibly even some asset info gathering.

One of my staff says that Spiceworks can only be used to monitor about 5-10 network devices and ‘may not be up to the job’

Anyone got any opinions they’d care to share?

jimmy-t · 2016-07-27T13:28:49.000Z

At my last employer, we had over 200 devices without an issue. Just make sure you have a decent machine to run it on.

huwdavies4 · 2016-07-27T13:30:06.000Z

Good point - I think they tested it here on a dog previously

inkmaster · 2016-07-27T13:31:54.000Z

I have several installs, with some having well over 200+ devices.

You should also check out Spiceworks Network Monitor in addition to Spiceworks Help Desk/Inventory .

huwdavies4 · 2016-07-27T13:33:00.000Z

Cheers will take a look at that

tonystahl · 2016-07-27T13:36:18.000Z

Drop it on an decent (but doesnt have to be new) desktop with a SSD and you’ll not have an issue.

Rod-IT · 2016-07-27T13:41:49.000Z

We currently use inventory on a sub-set of our VLANs, covering about 1100 devices and we have no issues.

The spec isn’t great either (by choice) but the disk IO beneath it is tiered storage.

michael-adrem · 2016-07-27T13:59:37.000Z

If you’re looking for bigger scale, check out our NetCrunch network monitoring suite . A single server of NetCrunch can support over 650,000 monitored sensors from a single server, including VM.

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