Configuring audits

This section describes the steps to audit PCs via your network.  For auditing servers, please refer to the section Auditing your server

View the configuration steps in images in the section Audit via your network

To audit from your network on a schedule you need to create a configuration file.  This is a simple, guided process using the E-Z Audit Configuration tool.  When you save the configuration, it even tells you what to do next.

You can also have multiple configuration files for different needs, such as auditing servers or ad-hoc or special "On-Demand" audits and more.

You can access it via the Tools menu in the E-Z Audit admin console, and it exists as a stand-alone .EXE file, config.exe, that you can copy to a server location to create or edit configurations at the server without needing to install E-Z Audit to your server.

To get it all together on your server to start auditing once you have your configuration, read Audit via your network

There are two types of audits, Basic and Full

A Basic audit is hardly "basic" but we had to call it something! 

It gets all the key elements of your PC's hardware and software including security related data like the status of antivirus software and more.

A Full audit includes all .EXE files on the PC, including proprietary software, freeware, etc., and up to four additional program file types (e.g. DLL, OCX, etc.) and auditing for non-program file types such as movies, audio, images or documents.

 

Options you can set when configuring

You can have users answer questions of your choosing either each time an audit runs, or once and have their answers retains.

You have the option of a totally silent audit, or to advise them it will run.  Further, if you advise them you can allow them to cancel it, or give them no option to cancel.

You can also choose to show a customized message before the audit runs with text of your choosing.

To edit or create configuration files at the server without installing E-Z Audit at the server

Copy the file config.exe to the server into the folder where the configuration files are. 

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