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I am trying to administer the computer systems for multiple locations of a retail store. Each store has anywhere from 3-5 computers. I have used spiceworks in the past to monitor one network, but is there a way I can use it to monitor multiple networks under one console?

If anyone has any information it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Maybe, I have never tried this but, if you are familliar with your routers, you should be able to create a route to each of your network’s router IPs for the proper subnet, and pass on those ports. You would then create the proper subnet to scan.

Of course this is made much easier if you use MPLS or frame relay. Even a Point to Point VPN would be preferrable.

Of course I could be blowing smoke with my first idea but the P2P VPN would definately work.

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That is definitely one way to go about doing it. Does SpiceWorks offer any sort of client service that can run on remote computers? This would be the ideal solution for us, as our store networks do not have static IPs, and a client, similar to what LogMeIn does, which handles all of the IP configuration would be great.

In short, does SpiceWorks have any kind of manual client that can be downloaded, installed, and then used to connect the workstation to the main spiceworks console?

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No sorry they dont, and I dont think it is there intention do do that.

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Okay, thank you very much for the quick feedback.

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You want something like that you can always go Kasaya but they are rather proud of their product if you know what I mean.

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There is another type of product that perhaps Matt3270 already alluded to: Hamachi. Made by the folks at LogMeIn, this application maintains n-way VPN links between whatever clients you want it to. I think of it as a temporary, portable, encrypted WAN. I use it on my laptop to have access to some of the standard network shares on other PC’s I use back at the office. And I haven’t tried it yet (I just installed Spiceworks last night), but I’m guessing it will work for administering Spiceworks from afar too. There are both free and premium versions of Hamachi. You MAY have to tweak firewall settings or do some basic port forwards, but it just might be the solution you are looking for. VPN.net – Hamachi by LogMeIn Any comments on using Hamachi in this fashion, Spiceworks? Michael