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Lansweeper I believe is well suited for any environment - its low cost and small footprint make it an easy addition to any organization, big or small, that is looking for an asset inventory solution that can either replace or supplement existing asset management systems. It may not be well suited for situations where a lot of customization is necessary, such as pulling in custom fields or details from equipment that don't reside in a registry.Incentivized
If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.Incentivized
Inventory - LANSweeper scans the network for devices - anything with an SNMP trap or using AD or local credentials. We can get an in-depth look at devices.Reporting - LANSweeper can generate just about any report you can imagine. We can check RAM in groups and determine where upgrades are needed. We can find local printers (which aren't allowed on our network) and address that issue with the user. We can check CPU type to help determine end of life without our network.Printers - It's nice to have a quick look at printer statuses. Toner levels, out of paper, and service errors are all reported via LANSweeper.Incentivized
Automatic device discovery.ScalabilityReal-time monitoring.Incentivized
Can only scan what it sees. Doesn't show every item on the machine. Patches are also absent.Software Recognition is OK with Microsoft. It is dire within our network of multiple products. Recognition is at about 35% with constant manual work needed to baseline for each manufacturer in each networkDatacenter compliance is a manual project. We used Excel extensively.License optimization is limited to installations v surplus licenses. We need to know who's using what and how.Incentivized
DocumentationCommunity supportEasy to set up but hard to customise fullyIncentivized
The price to function scale is so far towards function it would be stupid to get rid of it Incentivized
Lots of info online there are tons of SQL Reports you can copy from the web as Lansweeper and users post many of them. They also send out alerts that pop up on Lansweeper, letting you know of an update that you need for certain software and provide an SQL report so you can scan your system to see what PCs need this update.Incentivized
It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.Incentivized
Microsoft System Center needs to install agents on all IT asset for discovery and sometimes the agents can easily get corrupted. Lansweeper is a SaaS solution and it's easier to deploy to all IT asset that are connected to the network. This save us a lot of deployment time without the need to engage vendor for professional service.
I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.Incentivized
It had a positive impact on solutions expense cause several teams we're using different solutions with different costs that used several servers and DB resources. Now, we've been able to simply that a lot with Lansweeper.With my previous point, people had to train and learn about each of their solutions. Now we can put a team in charge and so the other teams can focus on other tasks.Last year Lansweeper changed their licencing prices a lot so it slashed our budget.Incentivized
It is good for DC admin.Only positive impact.Highly recommended.Incentivized