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Here’s a quick blurb on the Spiceworks segment which was in Hak5 episode 402.

Existing features include:

• Help desk system
• Run and edit your own reports on a huge variety of asset data
• Ping, Traceroute, and run Remote Control against a computer
• Compare workstation configurations with each other
• Index and monitor Event Log entries and other stats
• Fully integrated help & user-community based forums
• Automatic discovery of Windows, Linux, Mac and SNMP based devices
• Manual asset addition (not limited to network devices)
• Inventory software license keys of many popular applications
• Attach documents and custom notes/attributes to any asset
• Determine your complete network inventory at a glance; view distribution of hardware vendors, servers, software installations and more

Some new features to whet your appetite:

• Microsoft Exchange monitoring – keep track of your heavy mailbox hitters and Exchange services
• LDAP integration – Allow your users to login with their Active Directory credentials while submitting a help desk ticket
• Asset groups – organize your assets into logical containers

• Service providers – Add important dates, phone numbers and other contact information pertaining to your service providers (contractors, ISPs, web-hosting, etc.)
• Revamped user navigation interface
• Share reports with other Spiceworks community members

Remember that Spiceworks works best on a corporate computer installation where you either have a Windows domain, or a master user / password installed on your boxes.

You can find more info at http://www.spiceworks.com