Spiceworks, your free IT Network Management Resource

What exactly is Spiceworks?
Spiceworks is a free application that helps you with the day to day management of your networks.

Think about what you as a Network Manager do in a day.
-Answer Support calls
-Check Server Event Logs
-Maintain Hardware/Software Inventories
-Verify the latest patches or anti-virus updates
-Check availability of resources servers/services/applications)
-etc, etc, etc

All in a days work, and a reactive process.

What Spiceworks does is automate many of these tasks and frees up time for you to be proactive about other things, like how else can I use technology to enhance business processes?

SpiceWorks features:
-Automatic PC and software inventory and IT asset reporting, you can add your own IT assets as well (discovers any IP device)

-Network monitoring and troubleshooting that watches the network so you dont have to (sends email alerts if a trouble occurs)

-An easy to use IT help desk to track troubles and view trends

How is it free?
Spiceworks is the Google of Network Monitoring Tools, i.e. Spiceworks integrates advertising into the application, advertising related to Information Technology as well as Help forums so you can ask questions of Spiceworks 190,000 other users in case you run into an issue thats difficult to solve.

What Spiceworks is not (yet)....
-It is not a enterprise network management tool. Up to 500devices/applications/services works great (can handle more, maybe 1000)

-It is not a tool that automatically makes decisions to reboot an application/restart a service or spawn another process

-It is not a tool that sends alerts via SMS

-It is not a tool that creates topology maps

That said, Spiceworks is a tool that will still work very well on a small to medium sized (about 300 users) Administrative Local Area Network and can help you proactively manage your network.

After using several Monitoring Tools, KS Host Monitor, Big Brother, Solar Winds, Nagios. Spiceworks has all the features one would need to monitor their Admin LAN.


Best of all it's free....

Download Spiceworks Free Network Management Software