Spiceworks is a great tool for any system administrator to automate their labor intensive jobs
August 09, 2017
Spiceworks is a great tool for any system administrator to automate their labor intensive jobs
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Spiceworks
I am using Spiceworks to inventory hosts, get details on servers connected to our network and monitor up-time. We also use Spiceworks to monitor cloud activity from within the enterprise on a user level.
- Inventory capabilities are very good. The detail provided makes my job easier to monitor what hosts we have, the OS they are running, software installed, upgrades available and more....
- Printer alerts for connectivity and ink levels is a plus.
- Antivirus installations are checked and monitored for updates. I get a report daily on updates that are available as well as any systems with more than one installation of antivirus software.
- The networking feature needs to be more automated.
- The graphical network diagram needs to be more flexible and easy to segment.
- It needs to offer more features to monitor new devices that get plugged into the network on a live and or daily basis.
- Since it is free, the ROI is immediate.
- It has saved my department hundreds of hours of manual labor trying to inventory our servers and workstations ($50,000) or more.
- Spiceworks has also proven to be a reliable tool for reports on bandwidth usage, software installations and upgrades available by host.