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Run a Network Discovery
Audit a Single Windows Computer
So you have downloaded and installed Open-AudIT on a Windows or Linux machine - now what?You might wish to first test auditing a Windows computer. There are a couple of ways to do this, but perhaps the easiest is to browse to can audit any Windows computer you have credentials for, access the Open-AudIT logon page using Internet Explorer on the system you wish to audit and click the link main page at http://SERVERNAME-OR-IP/omk/oae, click on "Audit My PC" .
When you do that, you will see Windows prompts - click "Open" and then "Run".
The dialogs will disappear and nothing will appear to happen (we have this on the list of items to improve). If you open the task manager you should see a "wscript.exe" task running. This indicates the audit is running against this PC. When this process finishes you should see a new Group (or two) on the homepage after you log in to Open-AudIT. Congratulations - you have just audited your first computer!
to download the Windows audit script to your local comptuer. Then run this script to audit any computer you have credentials for, if logged into a domain you do not need to enter the credentials on the command line.
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cscript audit_windows.vbs REMOTE_PC strUser=REMOTE_USER strPass=PASSWORD |
This will access the Windows computer over the network, gather the necessary information and upload it to the Open-AudIT server.
More details are available in the article, Other ways to audit individual Windows computers are detailed in How to audit a single Windows computer.
Run a Network Discovery
Open-AudIT can discover devices on an IP network using network scanning, you can find more details in the article How to audit a subnet using a script
Audit a Windows Domain
Open-AudIT will find all the computers participating in a windows domain and then audit them all, this is detailed in the article, How to audit an Active Directory domain
From here you can start creating Locations and Organisations, auditing your fleet via active directory, discovering your subnets, running reports and more.