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12-04-2018
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01-09-2023
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Nils
Lansweeper includes several agentless scanning methods to scan the assets in your network. You can scan the Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows computers, VMware servers and other devices in your network without installing any Lansweeper software on the machines you're scanning.
Optionally, you can scan your computers with a scanning agent instead. Lansweeper includes two agents for scanning computers, LsPush and LsAgent. This knowledge base article explains the difference between the two agents and links to setup instructions for both.
While LsPush is generally deployed by you using a group policy, Lansweeper also has a feature that automatically tries to scan Windows computers using LsPush. This feature is called fallback scanning.
Fallback scanning is a feature that places the LsPush agent on a Windows client machine and runs it as a scheduled task, so scanned data can be sent back to your Lansweeper installation. The path of the LsPush executable as pushed to the client machine is C:\Windows\LSDeployment\LsPush.exe
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A fallback scan only occurs if all of the following requirements are met:
Fallback scanning is enabled by default. If you do not want fallback scans to occur for your Windows computers, do either of the following options: