Because, like I said, I have no documentation into this network and what I've been able to find is I've got 1,375 DHCP leases out there. It took me two weeks to get everything that I imagine is in the network onto that. When it does device discovery, that really takes a long time. I would also say that a faster network search engine would be good. It does alerts, but it tells us when stuff is down and when it comes back. It doesn't have some of the integrations I'd like to see, some of the ticket generation alerts, things of that nature. But I don't have any tool that is capable of mapping the way that I need to map this network. And I could show the links, I could show the nodes, I could show the switches, routers, et cetera. So if they could implement a little bit better GIS-based mapping, I could take a Google Earth image and zoom right down here on my 875 square miles. And the mapping that they've got there doesn't even come close to being usable to me. I have an 875 square-mile Indian reservation that I have to keep an eye on. The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual, bonafide network map would be really nice. I've been messing around with their Google Map snap-in that they've got and that's great if I've got a massively corporate Enterprise Scale Network with branch locations in 50 different cities around the U.S., but I don't. For example, I've already caught several world-class operators here in our work environment putting the software on their machines that should not have and it was documented and they were disciplined because of it. I would say policy enforcement is definitely one of the bigger features overall that this solution gives.
The SCCN machine on the South Room Inventory and Compliance might tell me some of the other software that's on.
But Spiceworks definitely gives a much broader overview. I do have a Microsoft Configuration Manager Server here and that will work okay. That's a very accurate and easy way to find software inventory of every machine that's out there.
If I just want to quickly look and see who's logged on to their machine Spiceworks will tell me that. It's something you have to craft a script for and it's kind of a pain to have to do it every time. I have found a couple of features to be valuable. One, it shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know upfront.
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