What Are You Doing Right Now
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Trying out the free hosted Spiceworks. It would be nice if you could do a cname instead of the whatever.on.spiceworks.com
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@dafyre said:
Ow, ow ow ow. That's always fun. My 4 year old gets in too big of a hurry and walks into door frames (even if the door is wide open, lol).
Yeah, I know how that is. My wife does that.
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@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free hosted Spiceworks. It would be nice if you could do a cname instead of the whatever.on.spiceworks.com
Why can't you do a CNAME pointed to that?
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@johnhooks Let me know how that works... I thought about setting one up for myself... just haven't got around to it.
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@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free hosted Spiceworks. It would be nice if you could do a cname instead of the whatever.on.spiceworks.com
Wouldn't this require giving Spiceworks an admin level username and password for at least your workstations so they could inventory them? WMI?
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@Dashrender At first glance, it looks like this is strictly helpdesk only.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free hosted Spiceworks. It would be nice if you could do a cname instead of the whatever.on.spiceworks.com
Wouldn't this require giving Spiceworks an admin level username and password for at least your workstations so they could inventory them? WMI?
CNAME is just an alias.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender At first glance, it looks like this is strictly helpdesk only.
It is, NTG is the host for the full product, Spiceworks hosts the helpdesk only option. We work together on this. Their hosting is on Linux and is not the same code as the full product. They have no hosted scanning on their roadmap. Hosting a helpdesk puts them in competition with a lot of people that they needed to be. Hosted scanning would be a pretty massive undertaking.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender At first glance, it looks like this is strictly helpdesk only.
hmm... I wonder where the value add for SpiceWorks to the vendors is? i.e. If I'm a new user to Spiceworks, they have no information on what equipment I'm using, one less thing to sell the vendors. Seems like a long term blow to SW bottom line.
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@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
@Dashrender At first glance, it looks like this is strictly helpdesk only.
hmm... I wonder where the value add for SpiceWorks to the vendors is? i.e. If I'm a new user to Spiceworks, they have no information on what equipment I'm using, one less thing to sell the vendors. Seems like a long term blow to SW bottom line.
They have lots of helpdesk-only users as it is already so that's their market. And a lot of their competition like ManageEngine has been taking a lot of their business by being free and hosted. They are in a market where if they don't go free and hosted, they are losing their biggest segment of users.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
@Dashrender At first glance, it looks like this is strictly helpdesk only.
hmm... I wonder where the value add for SpiceWorks to the vendors is? i.e. If I'm a new user to Spiceworks, they have no information on what equipment I'm using, one less thing to sell the vendors. Seems like a long term blow to SW bottom line.
They have lots of helpdesk-only users as it is already so that's their market. And a lot of their competition like ManageEngine has been taking a lot of their business by being free and hosted. They are in a market where if they don't go free and hosted, they are losing their biggest segment of users.
I suppose that makes sense.
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It will be interested to see how they do Hosted scanning... Most likely scenario would be for you to install Spiceworks internally, and only configure the network scanning bits as a remote proxy or something like that... That way your Passwords still never leave your network....
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@dafyre said:
It will be interested to see how they do Hosted scanning...
They say "You should talk to NTG." That's literally how they handle it
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Yes they do! We have gotten about 5 referrals as of late directly from Spiceworks on this!
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@dafyre said:
Most likely scenario would be for you to install Spiceworks internally, and only configure the network scanning bits as a remote proxy or something like that... That way your Passwords still never leave your network....
I don't think that they would do it that way. They would just move to it being hosted. If you wanted things to never leave your network you wouldn't use a hosted scanning product. Or you'd do a one to one hosting model like NTG does for it which is more expensive but takes care of those issues.
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@scottalanmiller cough shamelessplug cough
That's cool that you guys are getting referrals from SW though!
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller cough shamelessplug cough
That's cool that you guys are getting referrals from SW though!
Yes, it's very cool. It's a very small market, almost no one is looking for it and the few that are typically want it for free, which is insane, but we provide a full private hosting option, full support, all custom, etc. Works out well for everyone. We've been hosting SW for a long time.
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@scottalanmiller I know one of the things we struggled with is getting all the sql queries correct for generating reports. Not fun when that's a not insignificant part of how you get evaluated for raises etc.
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Heading out to look for an ATM / telebanco. My first on foot venture into Granada.
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The kids are getting ready to get into the pool.
