I used to run Altiris but it is really pricey and some of those guys are jerks. We paid a consultant $10000 a week to come and make it work, and still had chronic issues. Spiceworks is a good product for the price, and has a lot of things that LANsweeper does not have, but LANsweeper is the bomb for active network monitoring.

This guys is not a moron and frankly I think he hit the mark. Spiceworks has some issues whether you spice-heads like it or not.

Their biggest issue is their users (ahhh hummmm) doing crap like this. Some of the people in their forums don’t care about anything but points and popularity.

A real IT person wants to fix his network, not run his mouth about how cool he is and how bad ass he is while having nothing to show for it but Spiceworks posts.

All of you so called professionals who posted anything derogatory on here need to get your act together and mature a bit eh? Your attitude displays your clear lack of professionalism and ignorance.

Telling someone they don’t belong in a profession because you don’t agree with their opinions displays your lack of empathy and ability to think (at all) outside of the box.

Spice works does quite a few things HALF ASSED, regardless of what you folks think. Its really value, if you can stand the pompous asses who reside within, are the forums. Quite a few folks on their are not the D-bags i just called out.

You freaking suckhead!

You can get a Dell Kbox on a 3 year lease for less than $350 a month. It does everything spiceworks does better. It also does a lot more than spiceworks. Surprise surpise, it has a client agent. It communicates all its data over SSL. I’ll do a review on it after I get everything working. But right now it is saving us about an FTE worth of salary. We are currently running automated application patches, dell drivers, firmware, bios, vulnerability scans, helpdesk, license metering, asset tracking, and have all the details from our Mac and Windows computers that we could ever want. A lot more than what just WMI gathers.

I tried to tell the CEO of Spiceworks about how important the client was at the first Spiceworld and stopped by a year later to tell them again. I had a lot of conference calls with upper management there, I have a very large collection of tshirts, stickers, posters etc because of my attempts to influence them early on. No dice. We put our money where our mouth is and moved. If you have Dells I recommend Kace. Otherwise, keep Spiceworks for a good helpdesk, use something else for talking to your computers to gather inventory. Save up for a box like Kbox, costs less than a decent printer/copier on lease.

The reason for me posting is to ask if there is a spiceworks client yet? or a simple “script” to run from the client to talk to the server and enable/disable only what it needs?

Thought I’d ask… thanks

I have to say I’m still surprised at the power of the intarweb to bring in some peer review and criticism of what I say. It is a good reminder to document and show some screenshots. Test and repeat. Fun exciting times. Thanks for all the input yall!