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Network Inventory software...Lansweeper

Spiceworks seems to find anything on my network (200 desktop, 50 server, 30 mac), but its damn slow on browsing equipment. A new version 3.5 just came out this week and it seems faster. I give lansweeper a try also.
 
biggpudge_tm said:
Spiceworks seems to find anything on my network (200 desktop, 50 server, 30 mac), but its damn slow on browsing equipment. A new version 3.5 just came out this week and it seems faster. I give lansweeper a try also.
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Yeah I've tried Spiceworks a couple of times over the years...slow, and I haven't had luck with it finding everything. New versions come with adware now too.
 
I've been liking Spiceworks but it has been slow at discovery at work. I just adblock the ads.
 
Holy Impressive package! Just installed it at a client. So far...."Two thumbs up!"

The features, for free...wow!
 
Interesting.....going to check this out more closely later.
 
Notes...it wants SQL Express 2005 or newer installed
.NET Frame 2 or higher

I was bummed it requires you to deploy a client to all computers..but it's small and easily added via login script or GPO.

Just poking around after a few minutes here....very detailed package.
 
Hmm one of the features it lists is no client install is necessary...is that not true then?
 
Zlash said:
Hmm one of the features it lists is no client install is necessary
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huh. Thought I saw that too.

Edit: It says it twice right on the main page - "No need to install a client on your workstations":rolleyes:
 
Zlash said:
Hmm one of the features it lists is no client install is necessary...is that not true then?
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Heh...I just looked at their website again..and it does state that.

Yet...in the setup instructions, it gives instrux on the lsclient.exe setup..which is created in a "Client" folder, that you copy to the netlogon directory and distrubute from there.

I'm so confused I'm going to run downstairs and refill my shotglass.
 
Well been playing with it, it doesn't actually install a client...it just runs that lsclient that tells the server to scan the computer.
 
I thought I read you don't need to install the client on a workstation if you have the premium edition?
 
There is no client, for the free edition it's just an executable that runs and tells the lansweeper server "hey come scan me", if you have the premium edition the server queries active directory for recently logged on computers and adds them to the queue to scan. So no client "install" either way.
 
Zlash said:
There is no client, for the free edition it's just an executable that runs and tells the lansweeper server "hey come scan me" So no client "install" either way.
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Yeah that's what I mean by the client. True while it's not a software package that installs and makes a directory in Program Files on the nodes...it's still a proggy that has to be deployed. The name of the file is "lsclient.exe", the directory that it gets put in when installing the main package is a subdirectory named "client"..and the instructions talk about how to deploy the "client" via scripts/logon.

Versus...another package like say..Spiceworks (which I do not like)..but it requires nothing else installed/deployed besides the "server" you install it on.
 
Do you have it running, YeOlde? I have a domain of about 120 systems and I've been looking for a better way to keep an inventory on it...
 
I got Lansweeper set up this morning and I must say it's damn sweet for a piece of freeware. I'm going to run it for a while to see how well it does with our domain (~600+ PCs). If it does well, I might ask my director to let us upgrade to the Premium version. Regardless, the free one is impressing me a lot more than Spiceworks did (slow slow sloooww scanning and sometimes inaccurate). Some people like the help desk portion of Spiceworks, but we already have an existing help desk system for ticket tracking so that's not important to me.

I encourage anyone to try this -- I think it will be very helpful for tracking licenses, installed software, rogue local admin accounts, etc. And the fact that it's free and actively supported is simply awesome!
 
hmmm looking into this... but all i really need is a script that will crawl a network and get the S/Ns off of the monitors...

i could use the heck out of a program/script like that...
 
Hi slowbiznatch,

we went premium a couple of weeks ago, and it's amazing, really worth every single buck!
we are especially pleased with the fast scanning. when we require an up to date status on something, we just scan off our whole network from scratch and it won't take long before we have what we need!
i especially love Active Directory integration, so we can be sure everything is logged, even PCs with firewall or network problems which otherwise aren't scanned at all
 
pykes said:
Hi slowbiznatch,

we went premium a couple of weeks ago, and it's amazing, really worth every single buck!
we are especially pleased with the fast scanning. when we require an up to date status on something, we just scan off our whole network from scratch and it won't take long before we have what we need!
i especially love Active Directory integration, so we can be sure everything is logged, even PCs with firewall or network problems which otherwise aren't scanned at all
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Hmmmm, sounds interesting....
 
I also ended up going with the Premium version since my last post, and it IS worth the money. But the freeware version is still amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone.
 
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