Config questions, lsclient config, ipgange config.

[d_i_saunders]

Hi,

Im sorry to post such quesitons but I have been reading the fourms and cant seem to the needed anwsers... I hope someone can help.

We have 6000 pc, over 40 sites. VPN etc...

I was thinking of deploying lsclinet to pc's and setting it to run in the schedualed tasks. Every 90 mins or so at random intervals. Servers would be detected by the Lan Sweeper server "looking" at the network My quesitons are:

1. If a client reports in via LSClient, will it still be scanned in the normal scan be the server that is "looking" for pc's on the network. ? I want to avoid this as its going to double the traffic produced.

2. How much data is passed from the cleints to the server at scan? Roughly?

3. Can LanSweeper detect Printer? HP and Zebra etc - If so what details can it find?

4. Can LanSweeper detect CISCO switches and access points? - agian what details?

5. We have a number of IPphones agian will it see these?

6. Can we limit the range of IP's it look at? Initialy we would like to scan only certain ranges, and expand over time. Our IP range is shared at the EUR level so i need to limit where it goes looking

Sorry to ask so many quesitons, I just can't install the product on to a server before I get a better understanding of how it will work..

Many thanks

Dave
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[Hemoco]

Thanks kaarde, this sums it up ok.

[kaarde]

Hi i saw your post was not answered here is what i know so far :

1 - If a client reports via LsClient it will get scanned, the server is never looking for client, it waits for them to call home, Lansweeper server will not broadcast on the net

2 - As i can see it's less than 1mb, scanning a workstation takes about 30 seconds, the users will never notice a scan

3 - Lansweeper does only scan computers since printers, switches cannot execute the lsclient they wont be detected and lansweeper wont be looking for them either.

4 - Same as #3, you will need a product like Spiceworks to find printers and switches but beware, as good as spiceworks may be, it will get incredebly slow once you get more than 100 piece of hardware listed in it. So Lansweeper is great for comp but wont be of any use for any other peripherals

5 - Same as #3 and #4 🙂

6 - Since Lansweeper is an on demand scanning program, you can easily decide who will run the LsClient, just assiciate them into an OU linked to a GPO and there you go.

So the point is, if you are looking for proactively discover every piece of hardware on your network, it's sad to say but Lansweeper is definately not the way to go. But if you want flexibility i'd say use Lansweeper for all things computers and spiceworks for every other peripherals, put them on 2 different servers. Then you'll have a free solution for all of your inventory.

Hope this helps