View Only Node of Lansweeper

[marrngtn]

As we store more and more information in LANSWEEPER it would be great to have a read only node that would sync to the primary node periodically. This way we could place the read-only node in the cloud or at our co-lo facility.

This way should some disaster befall the main site we could then pull up our the read-only / mirror and have access to our asset inventory, documents and other pieces of information essential for BC/DR.

This would garner a few more check points from the auditors.

[Hemoco]

You can set up a second Lansweeper installation, attach your existing database to it and stop the Lansweeper service in services.msc to prevent scanning. We cannot provide further instructions/support for this, as what you are asking falls outside of standard Lansweeper functionality.

We do not currently host Lansweeper databases; this will most likely never be offered as a service to be honest.

[marrngtn]

Can we get a document on how to implement the second node and share the data? Or better perhaps how to get that light weight read only version that could be in the cloud or at a co-location? gain as this is only read only a way to periodically sync the information would create tremendous value.

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If you could offer a hosted version of the read-only DB that would also be a winner.

[FixitDave]

Maybe a none polling or failover license model could be implemented where SQL replication manages the transfer of data direct from the main server to the failover/RO server.

Paying for a full license just so you can get access to data isn't cost effective and users accessing the data on the failover/RO server would also levitate the workload on the polling server.

My question would be, how are the documents stores...are they stored directly in SQL database or does SQL just contain a link to the document that stored on the server.

If a link to a file, would have to implement DFS to keep the failover server up to date...

[Hemoco]

FixitDave wrote:
My question would be, how are the documents stores...are they stored directly in SQL database or does SQL just contain a link to the document that stored on the server.

The latter. Documents are stored in the Program Files (x86)\Lansweeper\Website\Docs folder on the server hosting your Lansweeper web console. Note that you are allowed up to 2 Lansweeper installations per Standard/Premium/Enterprise license, as long as the second installation remains within the same company.

[Hemoco]

That's indeed a smart way of keeping a backup and much more advantages in fact, but we're not sure what your question is (if there is any).