User Guide

How to create an Address list segment

This guide shows you how to create an Address list segment so that AlloyScan can discover and audit devices on a specific IP range, subnet, or named host list inside your network.

Prerequisites

  • Site Administrator role.
  • At least one Audit Service deployed and registered, or be ready to install one during the wizard.
  • Credentials available for the target devices (for example, Windows domain credentials, SSH credentials).
  • Network connectivity from the Audit Service host to the target range. See Required Ports Reference.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Network > Segments.
  2. Click + New segment.
  3. On the Segment type page, select Address list and click Next.
  4. The 5-step wizard opens. In Step 1 - Select or install audit service, pick an existing Audit Service from the combobox. > If no Audit Service is registered, click Download audit service, install it on a Windows host inside the target network, return to the wizard, and refresh the service list. See How to install Audit Service.
  5. In Step 2 - Address list, enter the addresses you want to discover. You can specify IP ranges, subnets, DNS names, or NetBIOS names.
  6. In Step 3 - Audit credentials, select or create the credentials needed to authenticate to the target devices.
  7. In Step 4 - Scan schedule, choose Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, or pick Continue without a schedule to defer scheduling.
  8. In Step 5, review the configuration and create the segment.
  9. (Optional) On the segment, enable Automatically audit discovered devices if you want every newly discovered device to be audited automatically, and set Auto tag to apply a tag to every discovered device.

Verify

After saving, the new segment appears in Network > Segments with the Address list type icon, the assigned Audit Service, and zero discovered devices. Open the segment and click Scan to confirm the segment can reach its targets — the Last scan statistics panel updates with Total discovered, Ignored, New nodes, and Known inventory counts.