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You should see logging similar to the below. In the below instance, a Discovery run was performed 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.

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The discover_domain.vbs and audit_windows.vbs are copied to the nominated Active Directory server and the discover_domain.vbs script is started on that Active Directory server. The Active Directory 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.