Comparing Lansweeper Sites and Lansweeper On-premises

Nils · ‎01-20-2023

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This page provides a comparison of key features between our Lansweeper Sites and Lansweeper On-premises solutions

Before you start discovering your IT inventory it’s important to understand what our different solutions have to offer. We have listed the most important features you can expect in our two distinct platforms.

Lansweeper Sites allows you to manage your IT inventory completely from the cloud.

If you would like to try Lansweeper Sites, go to https://app.lansweeper.com/try. After registering your account you can download and install the Lansweeper application. It only takes a few minutes to start exploring your scanned data in Lansweeper Sites.

Some key features Lansweeper Sites offers are:

Installation federation
Access to your assets from anywhere
Advanced permission and scope system
Risk Insights
OT discovery
API Access

If you would like to try Lansweeper On-premises instead, go to https://www.lansweeper.com/product/on-prem/.

Discovery and inventory

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites and Cloud Discovery	Lansweeper Network Discovery	Classic Lansweeper On-prem scanning
Discovery/scanning targets and data	Active Directory	✔	✔ (Merged into one AD domain target)	✔ (Computer Path, Domain, User/Group Path)
	AirWatch (VMware Workspace One UEM)	✔ (Planned for Cloud Discovery)	✘	✔
	Asset Group	Planned (Inventory action)	Planned (Inventory action)	✔
	Asset Type	Planned (Inventory action)	Planned (Inventory action)	✔
	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	✔	✘	✔ (Compute only)
	Azure	✔	✘	✔ (Compute only)
	Azure Active Directory/Microsoft Entra ID	✔	✘	✔
	Chrome OS	✔ (Planned for Cloud Discovery)	✘	✔
	Citrix	✔	✔	✔
	Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	✔	✘	✘
	Hyper-V	N/A	✔	✔
	Intune	✔	✘	✔
	IP range (start to finish address)	✔	✔	✔
	IP address, IP range using CIDR, hostname, FQDN	✔	✔	✘
	IPv4/6 range exclusions	✔	✔	✔
	Microsoft 365	✔	✘	✔
	Report	Planned (Insights)	✘	✔
	SCCM	✔	✔	✔
	Schedules	✔	✔ (Per set of targets)	✔ (Per target)
	User data	✔	✔ (User data from Windows, Linux, and macOS related with AD, Azure AD, Intune, and M365)	✔ (User data from Windows and Linux related with AD, Azure AD, and M365)
	VMware ESXi and vCenter	✔	✔	✔
	Windows computer	✔	✔	✔
	Custom scanning with commands/scripts	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✘
	Custom eventlog scanning	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✔
	Custom file/directory scanning in Linux	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✔
	Custom file scanning in Windows	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✔
	Custom performance counters	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✔
Discovery/scanning and inventory options	Agent-based Discovery	✔ (IT Agent to Lansweeper Sites)	✔ (IT Agent to Network Discovery Hub)	✔ (LsAgent)
	Agent-based on demand Discovery (without installation on asset)	N/A	✔ (IT Agent Portable)	✔ (LsPush)
	Auto update	N/A	✔	✘ (LsAgent only)
	Discovery progress	✔	✔ (in Network Discovery Hub)	✔
	Firewall rule scanning	N/A	Planned (Custom Discovery)	✔
	Framework	N/A	.NET 8 (also in IT Agent)	.NET Framework 4.8 (.NET 8 for LsAgent)
	Import and export discovery actions/credentials	✔	Planned	✘
	Link with external credential vaults	✔	Planned	✘
	LsAgent Relay configuration	Planned	N/A	✔
	Manual asset adding	✔	Planned	✔
	Manual asset rescanning	✔	Planned (Already available for IT Agent assets)	✔
	Open TCP ports and extra fingerprint data	✔	✔	✘
	Operating system support	N/A	✔*	✔**
	OT assets	✔	✔	✔
	Passive detection (Asset radar/network visibility)	✔	✔	✔
	Scan/Discovery issues	✔	✔	✔
	Scanning exclusions	✔	Planned	✔
Discovery/scanning credentials	AirWatch (VMware Workspace One UEM)	✔ (Planned for Cloud Discovery)	✘	✔
	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	✔	✘	✔
	Azure	✔	✘	✔
	Chrome OS	✔ (Planned for Cloud Discovery)	✘	✔
	Citrix	✔	✔	✔
	GCP	✔	✘	✔
	Integration with legacy AD LAPS	✔	✔	✔
	Integration with Windows LAPS	✔	Planned	✘
	Integration with external credential vaults	✔	Planned	✘
	Microsoft Cloud Service (Azure, Azure AD, Entra ID, Intune, M365)	✔	✘	✔
	SCCM	✔	✔	✔
	SSH	✔	✔	✔
	VMware ESXi	✔	✔	✔
	Windows	✔	✔	✔
	SNMP	✔	✔	✔

* Local tracking using IT Agent: Windows, Linux and macOS.
Remote discovery (Windows, Linux and macOS): On Linux, Windows discovery is limited to credential-free device recognition (CDR). Full data discovery (software, user info, etc.) is planned but not yet available and will require remote WinRM on Windows assets.

** Local tracking using LsAgent: Windows, Linux and macOS
Remote scanning: Windows only

Marketplace

Integrations

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
ITAM	AdminRemix	✔	✘
	Asset Panda	✔	✘
	CyberStockroom	✔	✘
	Oomnitza Data connector	✔	✘
	Reftab	✔	✘
	Setyl	✔	✘
	Timly Asset Tracking Maintenance	✔	✘
Analytics	Microsoft Power BI	✔	✘
Analytics	Splunk	✔	✔
Monitoring	PRTG	✔	✘
Monitoring	Senhub	✔	✘
Subscription and SAM	AssetLabs Streamline	✔	✘
Subscription and SAM	Licenseware	✔	✔
CMDB	4me	✔	✘
	Efecte	✔	✘
	HaloITSM	✔	✘
	HaloPSA	✔	✘
	Jira Service Management Assets	✔	✘
	Servicely.ai	✔	✔
	ServiceNow - CI Sync	✔	✔
	ServiceNow Service Graph	✔	✘
	TOPdesk ITSM	✔	✘
	Vivantio CSM	✔	✘
	Vivantio ITSM	✔	✘
Security	Armis Data Connector	✔	✘
	Automox	✔	✘
	Axonius data connector	✔	✔
	Cortex XSOAR	✔	✘
	DeepSurface RiskAnalyzer	✔	✘
	Device Total	✔	✘
	Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager	✔	✘
	FortifyData Cybersecurity Assessment	✔	✘
	IBM Q-Radar	✔	✘
	Microsoft Sentinel	✔	✘
	Noetic Cyber™	✔	✘
	OverSOC	✔	✘
	Splunk Enterprise Security	✔	✘
	Splunk SOAR	✔	✘
	ThreatAware	✔	✘
Service desk	Fresh Service	✔	✘
	InvGate Service Desk	✔	✘
	Jira Service Management	✔	✘
	ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus	✔	✘
	Mint Service Desk	✔	✘
Services	Help Desk Migration	✔	✘

Services

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Implementation	Health Check by Cheops	✔	✔
	Health Check by ITHealth	✔	✔
	ITAM Solutions, by SHI	✔	✘
	Lansweeper Concierge by ITHealth	✔	✔
	Onboarding Services by Cheops	✔	✔
	Professional Services, by ITHealth	✔	✔
	Professional Services, by Multipoint	✔	✘
	Valiantys Governance	✔	✘

Analyze

Filtering and sorting

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Built-in Views	Software overview	✔	✔
	Inventory overview	✔	✔
	License keys	✘	✔
	Microsoft 365	✔	✔
	Risk Insights	✔	✘
	Users overview	✔	✘
Custom Views	Inventory	✔	✘
	Scan issues	✔	✘
	Risk insights	✔	✘
	Software	✔	✘
	Users	✔	✘
Filter Views	Inventory	✔ (Advanced)	✔ (Basic)
	Scan issues	✔ (Advanced)	✔ (Basic)
	Risk insights	✔	✘
	Software	✔ (Advanced)	✔ (Basic)
	Users	✔ (Advanced)	✔ (Basic)
Share Views	Share Custom views	✔	✘

Inventory

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Cleanup	Delete assets or change asset states	✔ (Planned for Network Discovery)	✔

Report

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Export Reports	CSV	✔	✔
	Excel	✔	✔
	HTML File	✘	✘
	JSON	✘	✘
	PDF	✘	✘
	Word	✘	✘
	XML	✘	✔
Report Library	Built-in reports	✔	✔
Run Report	Manual	✔	✔
	Schedule	✔	✔
	Email scheduled report	✘	✔

Diagrams

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Diagram Viewer	Asset scopes	✔	✘
	Cloud assets	Planned	✘
	Export diagrams	✔	✘
	Filters by asset metadata	✔	✘
	Information on the asset	✔	✘
	Integrated search	✔	✘
	Issues on the asset	✔	✘
	IT assets	✔	✘
	Location maps	Partial	✔
	Network topologies	✔	✘
	Network Discovery assets (including OT)	Planned	✘
	Running status on the asset (for virtual assets)	✔	✘
	Virtual environments	✔	✘

For location maps: the location asset type is provided in Lansweeper to illustrate related assets and relations.

Helpdesk

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Helpdesk		Using integrations	✔

Configure

Access Management

Feature	Item	Lansweeper Sites	Lansweeper On-prem
Asset Scopes		✔	✘
Authentication	MFA	✔	✘
Authentication	SSO	✔	✘

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