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How to audit devices

This guide shows you how to trigger an ad-hoc audit on selected devices so that AlloyScan collects a fresh hardware, software, and configuration snapshot.

Prerequisites

  • Administrator role, or User role with permission to start audits.
  • The target devices already exist in Inventory, or appear as Ready for audit in a Segment's Scan Results.
  • Valid credentials of the right type are present in the assigned Audit Service's credentials pool.
  • Available headroom in the site's Audits per month quota — each audit consumes one count.

Steps

  1. Choose your starting point:
    • For devices already in Inventory, navigate to Inventory > (device type) and tick the checkboxes next to the rows you want to audit.
    • For devices fresh from a scan, navigate to Network > Segments > (segment) and tick rows in Scan Results that show the Ready for audit check.
  2. Click Audit in the toolbar.
  3. AlloyScan enqueues an audit task. You can monitor it in Admin Center > Site Settings > Tasks and services > Active tasks.

If the Audit button is disabled, no rows are selected. If audits keep failing with authentication errors, the credentials may be stale — see How to manage credentials.

Verify

After the audit completes, open the Audit tab on each device's form. You should see:

  • A new Audit ID (UUID) and an updated Audit date.
  • An Audit source value identifying the origin (Service or Agent).

Also, a new row in Admin Center > Site Settings > Logs > Audit log records Start date, Scope, Initiator, Status, and Errors count. If a per-device audit fails, AlloyScan retains that device's previous snapshot rather than blanking it.