Introduction

Adding fields that are specific to your requirements is an extremely simple process with Open-AudIT. You can then populate these fields with whatever data you would like recorded. Asset Numbers, Cost Codes, specific attributes, etc.

Fields can be one of two types. A freeform text field or a selectable list of values. A log is kept of any changes to a field – when it was changed, what it previously was and who changed it.

We have a quick video showing this process, here:

Community Requests

As always, if you have a field that is not already in Open-AudIT and you think would be useful to the community at large, please do send us your idea. We’re only too happy to incorporate new fields into Open-AudIT when the community requests them.

The GUI

Creating a field is simply a matter of menu -> Manage -> Fields -> Create Fields. Provide it with a name (as a minimum) and you’re done. Easy! Now the field will appear on the Device Details pages.

You can change the type to

The API

As with all collections within Open-AudIT, fields are also accessible via the JSON API. Simply send a GET request to /fields for a list. The standard POST, DELETE and PATCH requests also work as expected.

More specific details are available on the Open-AudIT wiki, https://community.opmantek.com/display/OA/Fields.

Updating the value of a device’s custom field is also available via the API. Send a PATCH to /devices/{id} with a JSON formatted, URL encoded payload of data.

data=%7B%22data%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A%221%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22devices%22%2C%22attributes
%22%3A%7B%22My+select+field%22%3A%226%22%7D%7D%7D

An example of the JSON formatted, URL encoded data payload is below. In this instance, we are changing the value of “My select field” for device #1.

When it’s not URL encoded, it looks thus:

{“data”:{“id”:”1″,”type”:”devices”,”attributes”:{“My select field”:”6″}}}

And nicely formatted for human consumption, it looks thus:

{
“data”: {
“id”: “1”,
“type”: “devices”,
“attributes”: {
“My select field”: “6”
}
}
}

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The annual market review assesses sentiment and trends as well as key developments in the platforms and tools that automate the maintenance of virtual and physical network device configurations, providing an opportunity to lower costs, reduce human error and improve compliance with configuration policies.

opConfig and Open-AudIT have long been regarded as some of the most powerful, easy to use products on the market. Check out the video below on automated configuration comparisons to see one of the many ways that you can use opConfig to reduce manual network tasks.

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Who has Administrator level access on your computers?

Would you know if someone was added to the Local Administrators (or root / sudo) group on a computer?

You can use Open-AudIT to quickly determine if the required users have administrator access to your devices and conversely, easily determine users who have local administrator access when they should not.

Open-AudIT has a built-in query to easily show you the user access on each of your devices.

Information is presented in an easily readable table format that is exportable to CSV (Excel), HTML, XML and JSON formats.

To enable the query go to menu -> Admin -> Queries -> Activate Query. You will see a list of available queries. Click the ‘tick’ icon on the right side to activate the “Local Administrators” query and make it appear in your menu’s.

Open-AudIT will discover any device on your network.

Using the correct credentials will allow Open-AudIT to retrieve a great deal of information about any given device via SNMP, SSH or WMI.

Windows, Linux, OSX, AIX and VMware have specific audit scripts that can be run against the target device and will do so automatically as part of discovery.

Other network devices that respond to SNMP can have their most important attributes retrieved.

When running a Discovery session you can automatically assign any detected devices to a location and/or organization.

Check out the video below to see how quickly you can see exactly what is connected to your network – if it’s connected, Open-AudIT will find it!

Do you know how many websites are running in your organisation?

You might be surprised to see the number, not only of actual web servers – but also the number of sites those web servers are serving.

Open-AudIT has a built-in query to easily show you the websites (even those not running) in your organisation.

Information is presented in an easily readable table format that is exportable to CSV (Excel), HTML, XML and JSON formats.

For each website you will see – the name, OS and environment of the computer running it, the web server name and the sites name, description, status, instance log status, log format, log rotation policy and directory.

To enable the query go to menu -> Admin -> Queries -> Activate Query. You will see a list of available queries. Click the ‘tick’ icon on the right side to activate the “Web Sites” query and make it appear in your menu’s.

NOTE – Open-AudIT currently retrieves the most information from IIS based servers, but Apache servers on Linux are also catered for. Watch this space!