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Data is inserted into Open-AudIT in one of several ways. Data can be manually inserted and updated directly in the web interface by the user of the application. It may also or be uploaded via Excel spreadsheet. Automatically discovered data is where the application queries network devices and determines attributes without any user involvement. The application performs these queries according to the type of device being discovered. Windows and Linux computers have the ability to have many attributes reported on via scripts. Items such as switches and routers can be queried via the SNMP protocol. Other networked devices can be scanned using the NMap Nmap program.
Storing Data
For a detailed account of how Open-AudIT determines what is a current attribute and what is an attribute that has changed or does not exist, see "How does Open-AudIT process and store data?". Open-AudIT stores the data assets in Groups. Application users have a level of access on a per Group bases. For detailed information see "Users and Groups".
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