Overview
Lansweeper is an automated network discovery and asset management tool which scans all your computers and devices and displays them in an easy accessible web interface. There is no need to install any agents on the computers, all scanning is done by standard build-in functionality.
Lansweeper Features Highlight
Here are some of the highlight features:
- Feature rich and user friendly web interface.
- Agent-free: no need to install a client on your workstations.
- Active Directory integration.
- Custom reports and e-mail alerts.
Main Features:
Here are main features of Lansweeper.
Software inventory
With Lansweeper it's easy to track and audit all your installed software, you can create powerful software inventory reports to find out which application is installed on which computer. Google unknown software and publishers right from the web interface and find out who is running software that's not up to date.
Hardware inventory
Lansweeper cannot only detect all hardware devices in your computers but with it's change tracking it can find out when a device was changed or removed. Not only does Lansweeper scans windows devices, it also gathers details about all other IP enabled devices on your network from the network discovery scan. (Linux, Printers, Routers, ...)
License compliance
If you want to keep all software and operating systems licenses up to date it can be a time consuming work. With Lansweeper computer inventory it doesn't need to be...
The webinterface will tell you how many software versions are installed and how much licenses you are missing.
Compliance reporting
Every company needs policies to get a smooth running network. Compliance reporting and the dashboard can help you to make all kinds of asset management reports. Who doesn't have the latest version of our virus scanner, Who is missing the latest patch for our ERP solution. The only limit is your imagination.
Active directory integration
Lansweeper gathers all active directory user and computer details for your scanned machines. Create reports based on OU, integrate user pictures, Clean up your Active directory.
Eventlog integration
Every windows computer logs errors into the Eventlog. Thanks to Lansweeper you can now consolidate all these errors and get an alert e-mail as soon as an important error occurs.
What's new in Lansweeper 5.1?
Lansweeper 5.1 comes with more than 40 new feature. It contains a number of new features including:
- CMDB: link assets to other assets or users and define the asset/user relationship. E.g.: user A owns asset A.
- Mass edit assets: click the Assets link at the top of the web console, select assets and hit Mass Change. Or click Editing Mode and type values into the page.
- Import assets from CSV file: import assets from a CSV file under Configuration/Scanning Setup/ Database Scripts.
- Place assets on a map: click the Assets link, hit New Location, upload a blueprint of your office and place assets on it.
- Schedule group/type scans: rescan asset types (e.g. printers) or custom asset groups you've created every X minutes or hours.
- Additional Active Directory information: 5.1 scans additional AD user attributes, user pictures, user group memberships and manager/direct report relations.
- Set custom field types: turn a custom field into a combobox, date or other type of field to ensure consistency upon data entry.
- Detailed uptime calendars: new, detailed uptime calendars are available in the Summary tab of Windows computer webpages.
- Support for SNMPv3: SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 were already supported, but Lansweeper 5.1 adds support for SNMPv3.
- Monitor assets: monitors are automatically scanned as new assets and linked to the Windows computers they're connected to. (These monitor assets do not count towards your licensed asset limit, if you have one.)
- Migrate from SQL Compact to SQL Server: we added a tool that allows you to migrate SQL Compact databases to SQL Server, which allows for bigger database files.
- Database maintenance tool: back up, shrink or repair your SQL Compact databases using our new maintenance tool.
- Windows rename detection: Lansweeper 5.1 can detect Windows computer name changes by identifying machines based on model, serial number and MAC address. The computer name is automatically updated on the asset page and the old name is added to the computer's Comments field.
- Support for scanning Windows 8.1 and Windows 2012 R2.
Full details about changes that are in this version of Lansweeper 5 are available in the changelog.
Download Lansweeper 5.1.0.29
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download.
For a quick overview of the Lansweeper 5.1 - check out this video:
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Lansweeper 5.1 now available for download
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