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OK, so I found this how to: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/283-collecting-remote-office-inventory-using-multiple-spiceworks-installations

My question is this, When is it best to setup remote collectors versus just running from a central site? If I only have 2 sites, is it worth it? Do I put one in a site that only has 3 devices?

This came up at our SpiceCorps meeting last night and I am not totally sure, so I thought I would ask.

Thanks in advance for you input.

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Honestly, it depends on the size of the site. A lot of our sites only have 3-4 users, probably less than 15 devices. I was able to run about 15 sites off of one installation before it started getting really slow.

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Don’t forget that devices that Spiceworks can monitor are printers, pc, battery backups, switches, and guessing other items I can’t think of. so saying only 3 devices may not be true. If you only care about computers, and you only have 3 then just use the remote agent on the computers. If you have more devices than the remote site is easy to setup. I would say if you have 5 or more computers then you most likely have other stuff that a remote site could monitor. It all boils down to what info you want. I love having spiceworks telling me when a remote site is down for a couple minutes. Gives me advance notice that something might be wrong at the remote site.

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I was using extreme cases here. I do have 2 locations that have a computer, IP phone and a firewall, and if possible I would like to get all of that information. I can scan from the central server to those subnets over the VPN, but I was just wondering what are the best practices for deploying the remote servers? I am currently running all from my one location and don’t know if I should change?