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To prevent any output to the command window you can set debugging = "0" and run the script with cscript //nologo audit_windows.vbs .
Options
Not every Windows computer will be a simple domain connected machine. Sometimes you may have a server in a DMZ with no network connectivity to the internal network, a machine not on a domain, a standalone machine not networked at all, etc. There are options to overcome these.
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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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details_to_lower [y] (y|n) = Details like domain, hostname, username, etc are usually set to lower case for consistency. If you would like these kept as retrieved, set to "n".
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Unusual Auditing
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Not every Windows computer will be a simple domain connected machine. Sometimes you may have a server in a DMZ with no network connectivity to the internal network, a machine not on a domain, a standalone machine not networked at all, etc. There are options to overcome these.
Computer with no network connectivity to the Open-AudIT server.
Copy the audit script to a USB drive, go to the remote computer and insert the USB disk. Open a command prompt and navigate to where you copied the script. Run the script and output to an XML file using the command
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An XML file named COMPUTERNAME_DATE.xml should be created. Close the terminal window. Remove the USB disk and go to a computer with Open-AudIT connectivity. Open the XML file and copy the XML and paste into http://YOUR_SERVER/index.php/system
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Computer not on the domain.
If you can see the computer on the network and it has it's firewall opened to allow remote WMI/VBscript, you can run the audit script using the remote credentials.
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You may need to substitute "workgroup" or the remote computer name for REMOTE_DOMAIN above.
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Computer than can see the Open-AudIT server, but the audit host cannot see the computer (unusual).
You can copy the audit script to the target computer and set it to run on a scheduled task and submit the result to the Open-AudIT server.