#Languard network scanner security install#

When updates are deployed, GFI starts communicating with the agent on the target machine, asking 'are you done yet? how about now? are you done yet?' and if the agent doesn't say yes on one particular update, it says the entire remediation failed! Yes, you can up the timeout period, but not every update will install in the same amount of time (Office service packs, anyone?). For example, I can set up as many scheduled remediations as I want, but I can only run one scan operation at a time with no ability to queue them up or add more nodes to the currently running scan. There is no consistency in how you schedule or manage certain operations. Recently, out of nowhere and with no changes to the environment or to GFI's settings, scans have started telling me that the user credentials provided are incorrect - the same credentials I've been using since we started with LanGuard back in 2013, without issue. You have to click gingerly to avoid making it angry, lest you end up rebooting the server (because ending the main program doesn't gracefully terminate other processes it was running).ДЇull scans take forever, and agent scans regularly fail for no apparent reason. No matter what kind of resources I throw at our GFI server, physical or virtual, it is slow. While it has proven to be extremely useful for patching and tracking vulnerabilities, the overall experience of using the software takes too much away from it's abilities. I can't imagine what it must now cost new. No way to justify a patching solution at the renewal price they are quoting. If the quote is correct, I'll very quickly turn into an ex-customer, after 11 years. Regardless, the transition is a nuisance on top of being asked to pay dramatically more for the product. That may or may not be an improvement for customers. In addition, they're converting to a reseller model starting Feb 1, 2016. It's GFI's choice, obviously, but I think they're nuts.

#Languard network scanner security full#

If I were to continue using LanGuard it would now cost more annually than our corporate antivirus solution - and I'm not talking simply antivirus for desktops, but for all servers, gateways, separate email-server protection, desktops, web proxy, and a full management console. GFI raised renewal prices an even greater percentage a few years ago, in 2012. However, I just received my renewal quote for 2016, and it went up nearly 2.2x. Almost exclusively used for patching, but have also run full security scans against machines for various reasons. Been using LanGuard since 2005 and have had a very good experience with it during that time.