Suggestion on combining functions on a scan server

[DirkRonsmans]

Hi,

So I'm working on a small architecture where we have a main office and several remote locations.

All are connected through a VPN tunnel though so there are no truly isolated segments and all locations have unique IP ranges (so no overlap).

The idea is to have a scan server with a SQL Express database in the main office and add a scanning server on each of the remote locations. I'm going by the diagram on https://community.lansweeper.com/t5/sites/lansweeper-sites-components-and-architecture/ta-p/64589

Going by this the architecture proposal should be sound.

I would however like to check if it makes sense to just install the scanning server/sql server and IIS webconsole on a single machine in the main office instead of splitting those out. As it will all be pushing up to cloud anyway I don't see the need to add more servers for really lightweight applications.

So wondering if this makes sense and if anybody got some more documentation/suggestions for this type of setup. Imho this seems like a common setup/usecase.

[DonMario73]

Hi, you will find that adding a remote scanning server makes sense if:

• you will use Credendial Free Scanning to identify unkown devices by it's mac address and also need to be alerted when new devices connect to your remote locations.
• if you plan to deploy large packages to windows computers at remote locations.

Regards