FAQ for Evaluating and Using E-Z Audit PC Audit Software

E-Z Audit is an easy to use, comprehensive and privacy focused tool for computer inventory of software and hardware assets.

E-Z Audit was first released in 2001 and used by over 18,000 corporate, academic, government, military and institutional users worldwide.

Yes, E-Z Audit offers a free evaluation.

Download a free evaluation of E-Z Audit.  You get the same full, in-house technical support while you try it out as you would as a registered user.

E-Z Audit takes 10-minutes or less from download to ready-to-audit.

You don't in the usual sense the word 'deploy' means. 'Deploy' is a big project, with E-Z Audit it's fast and easy.

Read the E-Z Audit Quick Start Guide.

From download to ready-to-audit takes 10 minutes or less.

Nothing to install onto your server, no clients to push or install to your PCs. 

No changes to firewalls, no ports to open or reserve.

No databases to set up - in fact no databases whatsoever.

No.

Unlike some "discovery tools", there's no need to create any PowerShell scripts.

All configuration is point-and-click and takes seconds.

Never.

Nor do you need to 'push' anything anywhere.

Nothing is installed or changed on PCs you audit.

No.

You don't need to make any changes to your server and you can keep it as clean as it was out of the box.

Three easy steps to get started using E-Z Audit - it takes just minutes.

Never.

This alone makes E-Z Audit safer and easier than any competing product.

E-Z Audit does not need SNMP, Remote Registry, an Admin password or any port unblocking. 

In fact, we don't even send traffic back and forth across your LAN to perform our audits.

E-Z Audit reads the whole hard drive on our Full Audits.  Competing products can't find what E-Z Audit can find.  Period.

We find all software, not just "installed" software, e.g. portable apps.  So an .EXE file copied into My Documents from a USB stick someone brought from home against policy is audited by E-Z Audit.

E-Z Audit PC Inventories are blazing fast!

The Basic audit has what most users want and takes as little as 4 seconds to complete.

E-Z Audit's Full take about a minute to complete.

The Full Audit reads the system drive for program files and, if you chose, other types of system files (.SYS, .DLL, .OCX, etc), even VBS, .bat and PowerShell files.

You can have it read all drives on a PC or server, if you choose.

You can also inventory non-program files like DOCX, XLSX, PDF, video, images - pretty much whatever extensions you want.

It is truly a Full audit that will even find programs files copied, not installed, to a PC or server like portable apps.

Of course, the more you want us to inventory, the longer the audit can take, however it's very light-touch.

You can also set a delay from user logon before the audit starts so that all the stuff that happens has time to complete before the audit runs, such as antivirus updates, Google Chrome updates, etc.

E-Z Audit has almost no impact on any PC or server being audited.
Our audit software is very light touch.

A "Basic" audit completes is as little as 4-seconds, and a Full Audit (where all .exe files are inventoried) takes around a minute with no slowdown or impact on the PC being audited,

How does zero impact sound? E-Z Audit runs nothing on the server.

Nothing runs on your server. 

E-Z Audit doesn't create traffic going out and back from your server unlike "discovery tool" types of audits.

We don't push out any agents. There are no databases anywhere unlike other audit tools that have their own SQL or other database on your server.

E-Z Audit exports audit data to an Intranet-ready HTML "Master report" that's great for sharing with your IT staff or management, and many drill-down reports to CSV, Excel and Microsoft Access MDB formats.

Reports are all point-and-click and you can get them intuitively from almost everywhere in the program depending on what data you are exploring.

Yes! And it's a breeze for those remote users.

Learn more about E-Z Audit Remote Audit.

And you also have the option to audit via USB stick: our audit module is a portable app.  Audit data are in individual files - no database at the audit end.  Just drop them into a folder, open the folder in the Admin Console, and it consolidates the audits.

You're in control of all aspects of your audits with E-Z Audit.

You can decide how often you want PCs audited – daily, weekly, etc.

You choose Basic or Full Audits, and on the latter you can add many program extensions SYS, OCX even VBS.

Audit non-program files like DOCX, PDF, MP3: your choice.

Or audit at any time with our E-Z Audit On Demand tool