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When auditing a device using sudo, we no longer have to wait for the configuration item discovery_ssh_timeout (previously 300 seconds) to timeout. We not now check every 2 seconds for our response and when received, proceed. This has made another large difference to audit times when using sudo.
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As well as this, there has been a change targeted specifically to Windows Open-AudIT Servers. Because of the issue's we have run into using the default service account, you will now get a big warning stating you should change the service account to a "real" account. This is because by default the service account cannot access network resources. IE - copy the audit script to thew target and run it. The "old" way of running the script on the Open-AudIT server itself and specifying the target still works and is enabled by a config item - discovery_use_vintage_service, which is set to 'n' by default. One reason for this is that the discovery script contains sections that do now not and can not work remotely. Think starting an executable. That won't work as WMI can target the remote machine, but running an executable from the audit script would run it where the script is running - the Open-AudIT server.
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