Unofficial Spiceworks

Wellston is a good blog writer who loves Spiceworks

For anybody who reads my blog that is an IT Professional, I highly recommend that you take a look at Spiceworks (http:/www.spiceworks.com).

In one of his recent post he talks about how Spiceworks helps him, even if his english is work then minde

As a member of a small IT Shop (4 full timers) for a college campus of roughly 1100 people during a semester,  keeping an accurate inventory of our (college-owned) PCs/Macs/Linux machines  and networking switches can be rather difficult.

The Spiceworks product will help you to accurately inventory the network by scanning any ip ranges that you specify and connecting via WMI (for windows),SSH (Linux/Mac), and SNMP (Network switches –also SSH/Telnet) to gather useful information (software installed, system specs, etc).   Once it discoveres your sytem, it will monitor the Windows Event Log and keep you up-to-date on the event log entries on your network.

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