Main components

AlloyScan is built around a cloud-hosted platform and lightweight on-premises components that together enable automated discovery and inventory of IT assets. This article describes the main components and how they interact.

• Site: A logical container for an organization within AlloyScan Cloud. A Site holds the inventory data, audit results, and associated configuration collected from the organization's IT infrastructure.

• Audit Service: An on-premises Windows service that performs agentless, centralized discovery and auditing within the customer network. It collects inventory data from servers, workstations, printers, network devices, hypervisors, and cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), and sends audit data and logs to AlloyScan Cloud over HTTPS. The Audit Service can also optionally deploy Audit Agents remotely to computers within the network.

• Audit Agent: A service installed on individual Windows, macOS, or Linux computers that collects hardware and software inventory data and sends it to AlloyScan Cloud over HTTPS. Agents can run on computers inside the customer network as well as on remote or offsite machines with internet access. Agents can be installed manually or deployed remotely via the Audit Service.

Below is a diagram showing the AlloyScan components in the cloud and in the customer network.