3. Integrated Application
• Community/Web
– Widget Based Broad DashBoard
– Research, Groups, Q & A
– Sharing Information & Knowledge
• Application Core
– Inventory, Monitoring, Reporting
– Help Desk, Trouble-Shooting, Network Map
– App is Not Hosted <->Ads are Hosted
• Static vs Dynamic Data
– Inventory and Monitoring are tied!
– Show Change (Timeline) Spiceworks
4. Not hosted remotely
How it Works
Browser Access on Intranet
Notes &
Reports
Documents
Full Scans
Health Check
Scanner
SSH
WMI
SNMP Monitors
Evaluated
Browser
DB
Company
Spiceworks
PING
Intranet
Core App
Up/Down Monitor
Share
Knowledge Product
Research
Helpdesk
Groups
User Tickets
Portal
Presence
Q&A
5. Scanning Fundamentals
• Initiates a few things…
– Monitors evaluated
– DB updated
• Scanning Details
– 4 Types (full, partial, health-check, up/down)
– Schedules (1min, 15min, daily/nightly)
• Schedule during “off” hours
• Impacts on Scanning
– Probing (Netbios -> WMI->SNMP->SSH->HTTP->JetDirect)
– Naming (NetBios, DNS)
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