I’m thinking of monitoring our sister company’s servers / workstations through the VPN connection. (I would like to limit the monitoring to these 2 groups of devices) Both locations have 4.5 MB worth of T-1s, ping times average 40 - 60 ms. I’m looking for feed back from techs that have this scenereo working. My fear is that Spiceworks scanning over the VPN connection will crush our bandwidth. I’m also guessing the lag time switching between screens, etc will be much worse than what I currently experience running Spiceworks locally, even though it is installed on a strong server.
Let me know your experience and thanks in advance.
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While scanning over a VPN can be done it is not considered a good practice, it will affect the performance of the Spiceworks scan, if there are delays it will affect the quality and completeness of data returned and would have an impact on the link too.
Scanning over a VPN is more of a last resort if the remote network in small (few resources to scan) and it is not possible to deploy the preferred method using Remote Collectors.
Remote Colectors is the established way to do what you need efficiently and effectively, most of us use this method very sucessfully. Even if you have sufficient bandwidth, which only you know, utilization etc taken into account, you don’t want bandwith consumed for no good reason. Then it simply comes to if you are able to make a Spiceworks installation at the remote site to act as the collector. Have a look at these two that explain more about Remote Collectors and how they work.
Remote Collectors and Collecting Remote Office Inventory using Multiple Spiceworks …
