Spiceworks vs lansweeper
This is a tedious process that could take a lot of time, but will also save a ton down the road for any large organization. We had to find a way for technicians to track, and locate devices. We have two 1mil sqft healthcare facilities that span 3-8 floors, and multiple offsites ranging from 15 devices to 150+ devices. If your wanting to go this route with LanSweeper, depending on your facility size and amount of sites it obviously would be more than a one person job. One very cool and interesting feature has to be the physical asset mapping, which is a big reason we went with it.
I would say if you have around 10 sites, and under 20k assets it can be managed and administered by one person. Lansweeper does almost all of the hard work for you, and just takes several weeks to get everything ironed out. From around 4mb per new scanned asset to 40kb. This agent also can cut back on the amount of data transfer that has to take place from your scanner server to the device and back. It's an agent that is installed on workstations and can be used for hardware that may leave your site or facility and you still want it to check in remotely and be able to manage deployments to it regardless of it being on your local network. LanSweeper also offers the LSagent which I love. And export it quickly to a csv for whomever is requesting it. From TMP model versions, to citrix workspace installed versions. I am able to build a query to find out anything you could ever want to know about assets on your network. With a mind you "slightly" dated management webpage that I can look over. However it throws it all into a perfectly laid out, well executed SQL database. This is why I felt Pulsways model is a down right ripoff, however I think they are targeting low-market IT shops because I can't even take the price slider past 1k workstations?įor companies that have a ton of assets and even ones that they don't know what they have and want to keep track of them, LanSweeper is an awesome solution! To be fair its really just a crazy nmap server that does snmp querying as well along with wmi to get your assets info. A dollar an asset is LanSweepers approach "PER YEAR!", with special rates for anything over 6,000 assets or added on help-desk agents. well outside of spiceworks which is completely free, but when compared to other paid software. When it comes to the asset management side of their software. If you take anything away from this article, let it be that LanSweeper has an awesome pricing model that is hardly beatable. This is 100 percent the reason we didn't go with Pulseway or the latter. Small firms or industries where cash flow isn't huge and IT departments get a small chunk of whats left in the wallet can't afford Solarwinds. Solarwinds in my opinion is for large enterprise environments only, due strictly to the price. LanSweeper is a big hitter in the mid-market division.
But also you have to look at their audience sectors. Its competitors do a lot of things better in terms of enterprise networks, on a whim id say due more funds in the R&D bucket. LanSweeper isn't a big one this list and I would like shortly elaborate why.
There's an endless list of them, most people know Solarwinds "sucks to suck rn", Spiceworks, ZenDesk, Pulseway and etc. For those that aren't aware, an RMM is a Remote Management and Monitor tool. Don't spend anymore time thinking about it, you probably need one. I want to mention up front and early on that if you do not have a RMM. Now this is computers, servers, vm's, time clocks, and VOIP devices, medical devices, etc "they don't count monitors".
#Spiceworks vs lansweeper install#
Recently I have gotten my hands on an enterprise install of LanSweeper, in which we have about 13,000 managed assets in.