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A business doesn’t have to be large to benefit from asset management, but many of the available option are priced out of the reach of small businesses, Spicework is a free to low cost web based offering suite to business, Spiceworks is a free to low cost web based offering suite to businesses running one or two server and handful of network devices, this powerful online app creates an inventory of your network hardware and software then helps your manage it.
Spiceworks performs a passive scan updating the inventory information at schedule intervals, so you have to do a complete rescan whenever you add a new device; scan took about 3 minutes with three devices, once your scan finishes, you can view all your devices on a dashboard using WMI and SNMP the tool monitor the status of devices, antivirus suites Windows xp sp2 only, hotfixes and windows services, it also support hardware running Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.
The application can monitor changes to desktop and server software, alert you whenever devices disconnect and send an email when certain conditions arise, such as a hardware drive reaching capacity, Spicewords also support VNC for remote access to server and workstations. If you run into trouble, there is an active user forum and there are webinar and how to pages, with Spiceworks almost anyone can do IT work at home or in the office, this is ease of use and flexibility all free.