Configuring the scanner

Auditing your PCs via the network requires that you create a configuration file to tell the Scanner Module what to do and to set the schedule for auditing.

This is a simple, guided process.

In the Admin Console, click the Scanners menu and select Configure Automated audits via Network, or you can access it from the Tools and Add-ons tabs.

The screenshots following show you in a visual manner how easy it is to configure audits to suit your needs.  Details follow below the screenshots.

The only required options you need to perform an audit are:

• What kind of audit you want to run

  • Basic Audit - This obtains PC hardware information and the list of Installed Software on the PC and typically takes under 5 seconds to run.
    

  • Full Audit  - This obtains the above and additionally all .exe (program)  files with:
     

    • Program Name

    • Version

    • Path

    • File size

    • Company Name of publisher

    • Number of and amount of disk space used by MP3 files
       

• The path to save the audits to when they are complete.
   

• How frequently you want new audits run
   

• How long a delay from the time the user logs in until the audit begins.  The default is 30 seconds, but you can increase or reduce the length of time.
   

To deploy to your server, read the section Audit via your network.

Excluding PCs from being audited

If you have any PCs that you do not want audited, create a plain text file using Notepad and add one PC name per line and save the file as pcex.txt 

Place this file into the same folder as ezstart.exe and ezscan.exe on your server and these PCs will be ignored by the scanner.

Add an additional switch to your command, /excludelist.  For example:

ezstart.exe /auto /excludelist

Or, if you are using an alternate configuration file:

ezstart.exe /auto /excludelist cfg-yourfilename.ezc

New since Version 9

You no longer configure the scanner at the server using 'ezscan.exe /config'. 

A new module, config.exe is now available to copy to your server to perform these "on the fly" configuration changes or additions.

It is in the C:\Program Files\EZAudit\Scanner folder.