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Learning has never been so easy!

Based on my experience at my current job, this howto should help anyone who is interested in setting up spiceworks to scan a network consisting primarily of Apple products.

5 Steps total

Step 1: Pre-Spiceworks Deployment

Here are a few questions you should ask yourself before setting up Spiceworks to scan for Apple/Mac devices.

Do I have permission to do this?

What is the scale of my network? How many devices am I planning on inventorying?
Will scanning my network during regular business hours be a concern or will I need to configure the scan to run after hours?

Does each machine already have a support account added to it with the ability to connect to it via SSH?

Step 2: Deployment

The great thing about Spiceworks is the fact that it does not require a client application to be installed on each client machine in order to function. Spiceworks has the ability to scan networks using a wide variety of networking protocols.

If you are looking to scan a network consisting of primarily Mac or Linux machines, the best protocol to use is SSH (Secure Shell).

The environment I deployed Spiceworks in had approximately 75% Macs, 15% Linux and 5% Windows machines.

You will need to create a non-admin user on each Apple device you are planning on scanning. To add a new non-admin user in Mac OS X, do the following:

1) Go to the Apple menu
2) Select System preferences
3) Select Users and Groups
4) Select the lock icon to unlock the interface.
5) Select the + (Plus) icon to add a new user.
6) Select Standard from the New User dropdown for the account type.
7) Choose a username to use for this account. You will want to use the same user/password across all computers to simplify the process of authentication to each machine. I would suggest the username of 'spiceworks' and a password of your own choosing.
8) Enter your password, and then enter it again to confirm.
9) Select Create User.
10) In the System Prefrences window, click the back arrow to go back to the main prefrences screen.
11) Select Sharing
12) In the Sharing preferences window, check (enable) Remote Login. I would suggest that you limit SSH connections to just the spiceworks user unless you have some need to have other users SSH into that machine. Allowing any users to connect via SSH will create potential security issues and will give someone trying to get into your network more options for doing so.

Step 3: Spiceworks Configuration - Network

I am going to assume you already have Spiceworks up and running. Keep in mind you will need to put your SW install somewhere on your network where it can communicate across VLANs and Subnets, which might require reaching out to your network admin to find the optimal spot to place the machine network-wise.

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If you have not already done so, add the network subnet to spiceworks where your Apple/Mac devices are located.

You can add networks to scan by going to your SW web interface, select Settings > Inventory > Device Scanning > Find More Devices.

Step 4: Spiceworks Configuration - Authentication

1) In the SW web interface, go to Settings > Inventory > Device Scanning and look for the Stored Passwords section.
2) Select SSH as the authentication type.
3) Select Add Account
4) Enter the SSH account username and password and give the stored credentials a description.
5) Select Save.

Step 5: Scan Your Network

Kick of a scan of the subnet(s) that contain the apple devices on your network.

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narf41 Dec 7, 2017 at 10:50pm
Does this give detailed information like you get from the windows agent?
Primarily serial number is of concern, but model, hw configs, and application install base could also be useful