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To do this, go to the Open-AudIT logon page at httpat http://YOUR-SERVER/omk/open-audit (but do not log in) using Internet Explorer your browser on a Windows PC. You should see a page as below. Click the "Audit My PC" button and run the script. You should see your computer being audited and the data should be posted to the Open-AudIT server.

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Click the "Submit" button and you will be directed to the Discovery list page. Click the Execute button and the Discovery will start and you will be directed to the Discovery details page.

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Auditing using a script (Windows)

Assuming you have an XAMPPLite XAMPP install of Open-AudIT on a Microsoft Windows machine.

Copy the file c:\xampplitexampp\open-audit\other\audit_windows.vbs to a suitable location. Do not remove this file from it's original location as it is needed by the web interface.

You can also download the scripts using the GUI by going to menu → Discover → Scripts → List Scripts, and choosing the download button on the right side.

Open your copy of audit_windows.vbs in a text editor. Check the following variables are set as below:

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We have unix based (bash. ksh, etc) scripts for Linux, AIX, OSX, Solaris computers.

You can download the scripts using the GUI by going to menu → Discover → Scripts → List Scripts, and choosing the download button on the right side.

To use the Unix audit script located at /usr/local/open-audit/other/audit_linux.sh:

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The script has variables that can be set the same as the variables in audit_windows.vbs. You could (for example) dynamically set the $url variable when you run the script by:

chmod 777 audit_linux.sh

sudo ./audit_linux.sh url=http://your_server/open-audit/index.php/input/devices submit_online=y create_file=n

The variables that are accepted on the command line are: 

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create_file - Defaults to "y". If set to "y", an XML file will be created and saved as per the audit_windows.vbs script. This file can be manually copied and submitted to the server at a later stage if desired.

Sample output on the console when the script has been run.

mark@dev:/usr/local/open-audit/other$ sudo ./audit_linux.sh url=http://your_server/open-audit/index.php/input/devices submit_online=y create_file=n
[sudo] password for mark: 
Starting audit
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Open-AudIT Linux audit script
Version: 4.3.0
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My PID is           13869
Audit Start Time    2021-11-26 13:22:33
Create File         y
Submit Online       n
Debugging Level     2
Discovery ID        
Org Id              
Script Name         audit_linux.sh
URL                 http://your_server/open-audit/index.php/input/devices
File                /usr/local/open-audit/other/dev-20211126132233.xml
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System Info
USB Info
Policy Info
BIOS Info
Processor Info
Memory Info
Motherboard Info
Optical Drives Info
Video Cards Info
Sound Cards Info
Shares Info
Network Cards Info
Hard Disk Info
Guest (Docker, Proxmox, LXC) Info
Docker Info
Log Info
Environment Variable Info
Swap Info
User Info
Group Info
Software Info
Service Info
    systemd services
    upstart services
    init.d services
Server Info
	apache
	mysql
	mongo
Server Items
	mysql using /etc/mysql/my.cnf
	mariadb using /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d
	apache using apachectl for VirtualHosts
	mongod using /etc/mongod.conf
Certificate Info
Route Info
Netstat Info
Custom Files Info
Audit Generated in '17' seconds.
Submitting results to server using cURL
URL: http://your_server/open-audit/index.php/input/devices
Audit Completed in '47' seconds.

Options

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All variables can be passed via the command line at run time. You don't need to create one audit script for each different (say) set of remote user credentials. A couple of examples -

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Copy the audit script to a USB drive, go to the remote computer and insert the USB drive. Open a command prompt and navigate to where you copied the script. Run the script and output to an XML file using the command

cscript audit_windows strcomputer=.vbs submit_online=n create_file=y

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