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Ensure the server meets the specified requirements.
Creating Credentials.
After installing OpenAudIT, the first step is to create the credentials needed to gain administrative rights to your server.
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Setup your default configuration items
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Open-AudIT Default Configuration Values and Description
Make sure (if you wish to use Discovery), that you have set your values for default_* items.
Discover a single device.
With this feature (added in version 2.0.6) you can audit a single machine to get an idea of how OpenAudIT works. Furthermore, you can use this feature to add a single device without performing a full discovery on a subnet.
How to discover a single Device
Discover and audit devices.
After everything is installed and configured correctly and you have set your credentials, it is time to start your first audit. You can do this in a few different ways (shown below) however, it is best to see if OpenAudIT is up and working correctly before trying to audit multiple machines or devices.
OpenAudIT allows you to import multiple devices by using discovery on a subnet.
How to use Open-AudIT Discovery on a Subnet
OpenAudIT also allows for auditing by using a script.
How to audit a subnet using a script
Discover your Active Directory domain.
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Configuring Your Organizations
Organizations allow you to group devices into Organizations/departments/owners. While you can set this up later, if you are configuring a permanent implementation of Open-AudIT it can be easier to build this out before adding devices.
Organizing your Devices and Users
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Defining Locations
Leveraging Locations to Speed Up Searching and Display
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Discover and audit devices.
Building your Network How to use Active Directory Discovery
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Creating Roles.
The Roles endpoint allows you to create and manage the set of permissions(Create, Read, Update, Delete).
Creating a Baseline.
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Baselining Devices
For auditing and management purposes it can be advantageous to baseline individual devices against a fixed, know good device. Baselines enable you to combine audit data with a set of attributes you have previously defined (your baseline) to determine compliance of devices. Follow Being able to determine which machines are configured in the same way is a major part of systems administration and auditing. Follow the link below to walk you through setting this up.
Baselining Devices for Consistency and Standardization
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File/Folder Auditing
For auditing and security purposes it can be advantageous to monitor individual files, or all files in a folder, for changes. Open-AudIT Enterprise has the ability to audit files on both Windows and Linux operating systems.
Monitoring Files for ChangesBaselines
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Collector / Server creation.
Collector / Server is designed so that you can have a 'collector' Open-AudIT running on a subnet and discovering devices that is controlled by the 'server'. This feature requires Open-AudIT Enterprise.
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FAQ.
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