Exploring automated monitoring tools

- In this section I'd like to talk about some tools…to inventory and monitor your small network.…There's several tools on the market that can…automatically discover things about your network…and monitor the performance and health of your network.…The one I'm going to demonstrate…to you is called Spiceworks.…It is a free product, you can download and install…it from the website spiceworks.com.…When you open the Spiceworks application you'll…notice that it actually opens a web browser.…You're going to need to log in.…First you'll need to create an…account, it is a free account.…

One of the first things you'd probably like to do…when you open Spiceworks is run a scan that will…discover information about your network.…We do this off the inventory menu item under…my network, there's the option for scan.…The machine says it found four devices in my IP range.…It would like to collect more…information about those devices.…In order to do so it's going to need a user name…and password for different devices, so…over to the right I'm going to click on enter credentials.…