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Anyone use this yet? It's blowing my mind - essentially a very full-featured helpdesk and network management suite.
and it's free.
and it works.
things you can do with it:
Spiceworks - The Free IT Desktop (http://www.spiceworks.com/spicelist/)
Spiceworks - The Free IT Desktop (http://www.spiceworks.com/) <-- home
I've been playing with it on one of our workstations for about a half hour, and it's really impressing me. it you're in IT, check this out.
JodoFett 04-09-2007, 06:00 PM So it's a ticketing system?
So it's a ticketing system?
and stuff. lots of good reporting, inventories... as an example, one of the default reports available is a report of who has Weatherbug installed across the network. I hate that fucking program, so Spiceworks stole my heart right there. :)
Still discovering what all it can do at the moment. Seems pretty insane for being free (okay it's actually ad supported, but they're unobtrusive).
redlighter 04-09-2007, 06:12 PM downloading...
Ender 04-09-2007, 06:14 PM Wow. Very cool.
Will look into it for our school. Thanks a bunch!
Wow. Very cool.
Will look into it for our school. Thanks a bunch!
:) Surely. TW's always been a lot of help when I have stupid IT questions - love to give something back, you know?
installing now, thanks for the heads up
JodoFett 04-09-2007, 06:19 PM This actually is quite cool, I don't really have an extensive network here to play with, but seems very neat.
Viracocha 04-09-2007, 07:12 PM Im downloading it now. Thank you!
Murphy 04-09-2007, 07:34 PM downloading, will advise.
thought I'd bump this for you morning types (like me who have real jobs).
who else thought this was about deodorant LOL
HollyW00d 04-10-2007, 09:19 AM Wow, very interesting. I'll test it on my network (70+ users and 6 servers) and report back later.
Wow, very interesting. I'll test it on my network (70+ users and 6 servers) and report back later.
seems about the perfect size - we have about 80 workstations (laptops mostly) and almost a dozen servers - being a CPA firm, we sort of have everything isolated on its own server whether or not it needs to be there... though we'll soon be consolidating to a couple of ESX servers.
HollyW00d 04-10-2007, 09:43 AM Well it's been scanning for about 20 minutes and it's halfway done.
It has found 32 workstations, 14 printers, 11 Network devices, 4 servers, and 406 pieces of software so far. There are 12 unknowns with 9 errors as well, we'll see what those are when it's finished.
Killjoy 04-10-2007, 09:44 AM I would recommend holding off on this for a while, it is in it's infancy. It does show a lot of promise though
HollyW00d 04-10-2007, 09:54 AM What's interesting is we're installing a new digital phone system here, but it's not hooked into the network yet. I'm curious to see what I can monitor about it from the software.
The scanning is pretty slow, but for a free distro it's pretty cool so far.
BadMoFo 04-10-2007, 10:01 AM well I suppose I will have to take a look into this. :-)
edit-wait...70 nodes? whats all that then? I have a shitload more then that.
well I suppose I will have to take a look into this. :-)
edit-wait...70 nodes? whats all that then? I have a shitload more then that.
what's your network like? I;m curious to see how it scales in larger environments.
BadMoFo 04-10-2007, 10:10 AM 2500 nodes at least in 5 sites (4 US 1 India), I don't know that I want to run this in production though.
maybe I'll set it up in the lab first
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