Spiceworks took 8+ hours, LanSweeper <30 minutes. LanSweeper produced accurate results in a fraction of the time Spiceworks produced incomplete results. We've chosen to use LanSweeper to track assets. At least twice a week it also locks up and our end users can't access the help desk portal to submit tickets. We found this out by using WSUS to determine how many computers we had and Spiceworks was off by 30 assets of the 180. We recently have been experiencing issues where Spiceworks would attempt to scan 180 assets and it would fail to complete the scan without errors. I understand that these keys are in the registry but other similar scanners would only produce keys for whats actually installed on the workstation by cross-referencing installed applications and registry keys. It ended up showing us that several computers had 3 iterations of office installed. We also went through a license key audit and thought we could rely on Spiceworks to produce accurate results. We've also had issues where it would scan a computer that had 2 monitors but would only show one. I ended up writing a batch file that would obtain them remotely and that was accurate. It came back telling us a generic description.

It’s not often you find something that’s both free and useful. I know you are probably anxious to start dissecting your brand new Spiceworks Install, but let’s take a minute to setup.

Spiceworks is a free network management, inventory and help desk solution, with no price tag. We attempted to use Spiceworks to produce the make and model of the current monitor the end users were using. Review: Spiceworks Help Desk & Network Monitoring Platform. Get real-time insights and spot sluggish network connections, or overwhelmed applications either hosted in your data center or in the cloud before they crash or users start. Install the monitoring agent on any workstation/server, configure the application URLs and start monitoring. At one point this year we were upgrading our end users to dual monitors. Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard is simple to set up. Cons: The inventory system is lacking when it comes to producing accurate information.

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