User Guide

How to manage audit schedules

This guide shows you how to create an Audit schedule and assign it to a device so that AlloyScan re-audits that device on a recurring cadence.

Prerequisites

  • Site Administrator role to create or delete schedules. Users can also assign or unassign existing schedules.
  • The device exists in Inventory with at least one prior audit snapshot.

Steps

Create an audit schedule

  1. Navigate to Admin Center > Settings > Audit schedules.
  2. Click + New schedule.

  3. Fill in the schedule fields:

    • Name: A descriptive name (for example, Daily critical servers).
    • Type: Set automatically to Audit.
    • Granularity: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
    • Cloud start window (minutes): For cloud-hosted resources, set the allowed start window after the scheduled time. See Cloud start window.

  4. Click Save.

Assign the schedule to a device

  1. Navigate to Inventory > (device type) and click the device row to open its form.
  2. Switch to the Audit tab.
  3. In the Audit schedule panel, click Assign schedule when the slot reads UNASSIGNED.
  4. Pick the schedule you created and confirm.

Important: A device can have at most ONE audit schedule. Assigning a new schedule replaces the previous assignment.

Cloud start window

For cloud-hosted resources, use Cloud start window (minutes) to allow a task to start within a window after its scheduled time. The default is 240 minutes; enter a whole number from 15 to 1440. The window controls when work may start, not how long it may run.

When an audit schedule includes both local and cloud-hosted resources, local work starts at the scheduled time and cloud work starts within the window. An all-local schedule is not delayed by this setting.

Verify

After assigning, the Audit schedule row on the device's Audit tab shows the schedule name, and the Not scheduled indicator no longer appears beside the device name in Inventory grids. Scheduled runs appear in Admin Center > Logs > Audit log with Initiator set to Schedule. After the next scheduled run, the device's Audit ID and Audit date update to the new snapshot.