Multiple Installs?

[bd]

I recently purchase Lansweeper and it's a great product. My boss wants to put it in all the divisions but roll up the data into a corporate location. We have a WAN in place but are concerned about the traffic that this could potentially generate. Is it possible to roll this data up by some mechanism and report on that using a console? Probably about 8 additional divisions...

[SPAMHATER007]

bd wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. So you don't have any bandwith clogging issues that you've seen? We run e-mail and other apps to the central office and we don't want to impact any existing systems.

I do have to mention that our larger remote sites, we have the Riverbed (Steelhead) WAN compression appliances installed that are configured to perform QOS and compresses most traffic substancially. The larger are also running bonded T1's at 4.5Mbs.

Checking our riverbed, the amount of traffic created is between 10KB and 2,000KB uncompressed (2KB and 512KB compressed) and connection times during the scan is averaging about 3.5mins (without compression I would guess about 7 mins). But overall the scan dosen't use much bandwidth.

Hope that helps.

[Hemoco]

bd wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. So you don't have any bandwith clogging issues that you've seen? We run e-mail and other apps to the central office and we don't want to impact any existing systems.

This is not really a lansweeper topic but I would suggest to place QOS on your datalines for your most important applications, this way no other application can "steal" the needed bandwidth

[SPAMHATER007]

Also, we are running at 60 concurrent threads for scanning. We had it up to 100, but that took too much resources on the SQL server side, causing the Web console to fail on load. This is running on a VMWare instance, not a physical server.

[SPAMHATER007]

Currently we have two central installations:
One in main US site convering US, Canada, Mexico, Dubai, India - Total of 32 locations 3,300+ computers.
One in main China site covering 7 china locations - Total of 8 locations 600+ computers.

We separated China because the reponse time between China and US was too poor even with our 10Mb MPLS circuit.

Scans are controlled by AD OU's. Currently we do not combine databases, but that would be a great feature.

All locations are full T1's or E1's, with up to 275 computers at a remote site. I would say you should have no problems scanning your remote sites with a central server provided your ping response times from the server to the site is not greater than 100ms.

The biggest issues we have is the Windows XP firewall and rogue users who remove the domain admins group from local administrators.

[Hemoco]

Maybe this thread can help : http://www.lansweeper.com/forum/yaf_postst2915_Bandwidth-usage-over-WAN.aspx

[bd]

There are 7 total sites, PC/server counts are roughly 450 PC's per site. Most sites have a T1, some sites have 2 T1's. Purchasing a license for each site is not an issue, we are prepared to do this but what we want to end up with is each site having the ability to administer their own install with one site in our headquarters with a "master view" of the entire network. This would mean a double probe on each computer I am assuming. The LAN traffic isn't an issue, I've been running it for awhile with no problems but don't want to create a problem with bogging down the WAN. That is why I was contemplating a data roll up during the night or some other type of consolidation.

[Hemoco]

How many computers are in each site?
How much bandwidth do you have?