NOTE - This has been made largely redundant by the inclusion of Scheduled Task setup in Open-AudIT Enterprise v1.5.1.

Introduction

To enable discovery on a regular basis, you need to be able to schedule the Open-AudIT discovery to run at the required frequency, e.g. every day.  To do this using a series of discover a subnet using a script can be useful to setup scheduled Discovery runs. These can be created using the cron scheduler on Linux. The script named discover_subnet_cron.sh is designed for this purpose and is included with Open-AudIT Enterprise. You can supply individual arguements arguments on the command line or set them inside the script. Both ways have benefits.

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Once a discovery job has been run, an entry into the standard Open-AudIT log will be created.

This is viewable by Menu -> Admin -> Log -> View Log, inside Open-AudIT or Menu -> Views -> Log inside Open-AudIT Enterprise.

The standard file location is /usr/local/open-audit/other/open-audit.log. Typical entries into the log for a discovery run will look like:

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