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You will be redirected to the Logging page. You can refresh this page and see the progress of the Discovery run. Note that the first log may take a short while if the script has to determine if a number of target devices are active on a large subnet range.
Once the initial list of target devices has been obtained you should see details of each target as it is scanned and input into Open-AudIT.
Logging
NOTE - The logging is quite verbose so there is now a feature to purge the log file at Menu -> Admin -> Logs -> Purge Log.
You should see logging similar to the below. In the below instance, a Discovery run was performed on 192.168.0.1-5 and the device at 192.168.0.1 was found and SNMP scanned.
on the open-audit.com domain and the two computers win2k8dc and winxp-pro were audited.
How Does it Work
When running a Discovery against an Active Directory domain, the process is different depending on if your Open-AudIT server is installed on a Windows or Linux machine.
Windows Discovery of AD
The discover_domain.vbs script is run locally with the values provided as per the form. The Open-AudIT server will then talk to the domain controller, obtain a list of computers and audit them.
Linux Discovery of AD
The discover_domain.vbs and audit_windows.vbs are copied to the nominated server and the discover_domain.vbs script is started on that Active Directory server. The server will obtain a list of computers, audit them and then submit the result to the Open-AudIT server. The linux programs smbclient and winexe are used to enable Linux to copy the scripts and start them on the Windows server.