Auditing specific assets

This article describes how to audit assets in AlloyScan.

Following a network scan, you can decide for which discovered devices or resources you would like to retrieve in-depth information about installed hardware and software, system data, security information, etc. The process of collecting such data is called audit. The devices and resources that were successfully audited are automatically added to the inventory.

INFO: For the difference between scan and audit, see Scanning and auditing.

To audit discovered assets (devices and cloud resources):

1. In the Network section, open the segment containing the assets you want to audit.

2. In the Scan results section, select one or more assets in the leftmost column. The Audit button at the top becomes enabled.

3. For devices only: Make sure that the discovered assets are ready for the audit. To verify this, see the icon in the Ready for audit column.

   • Green check mark: The asset is ready, and you can safely proceed.

   • Red stop sign: There is a problem that must be resolved before auditing.

   To troubleshoot, hover over the status icon and click . Then review the problem description and address the issues.

   NOTE: Cloud resources are always ready for auditing.

4. Click the Audit button.

Once the audit task finishes, you can navigate to the Inventory section and find your assets there. You can also use the Inventory tab in the Scan results section to see which assets have already been added to the inventory. To see only non-audited devices, use the New nodes tab.