How to Audit Managed Hosts (Web Browser)

Audit managed hosts by comparing them to a baseline manifest.

1. If you are not already in the appropriate host group, see How to Access the Hosts Section and Appropriate Administrative Domain and Host Group (Web Browser).

2. Select the managed hosts and host groups to compare.

   For example, select host1 and host2 by clicking the checkbox next to host1 and host2.

3. From the Host Actions menu, choose Audit.

4. Supply a meaningful job name.

   For example, the job name might be Compare host1 and host2.

5. Determine when you want to run the job, either now or at another time.

   • To initiate the job immediately, click the Start Now radio button.

   • Run the job at a later time by specifying the start date and start time.

     • Start date. Click the date or specify the date in the mm/dd/yyyy format.

       mm and dd are two-digit forms for the month and day. yyyy is the four-digit form for the year.

     • Start time. Choose the start time from the hour and minute pull-down menus.

6. Specify the path name of the audit rules file to use.

   Click Browse to open a file chooser to help in the search for the audit rules file in the Change Manager repository.

   To add an audit rules file to the Change Manager repository, see How to Create an Audit Rules File (Web Browser) and How to Import an Audit Rules File to the Change Manager Repository (Web Browser). See the description of the Audit Rules File Format.

   For example, the audit rules file is /files/web-server/usr-only.brul.

7. To specify the baseline manifest, do one of the following:

   • Specify the path name of the baseline manifest.

   • Click Browse to find the baseline manifest.

   For example, the baseline manifest is /files/web-server/usr-only.baseline.bmft.

8. To specify the report file, do one of the following:

   • Specify the path name of the report file.

   • Click Browse to choose the report file in which to store the results.

   For example, the report file is stored in /files/web-server/host1-host2.usr-only.compare.txt.

9. Click Submit to initiate the manifest comparison, or click Cancel to return to the previous page.

   The compare operation takes some time to complete.

10. When the operation completes, view the generated comparison reports.

    1. Click the Files tab at the top of the web page to go to the Files section.

    2. Drill down to the folder where you stored the comparison reports.

    3. Click the comparison report name to go to the property page.

       You can view one comparison report at a time.

       If the comparison report is very large, use the Prev and Next buttons to navigate between pages.

    4. To return to the folder that holds the comparison reports, click Back.

       Repeat Steps 10c and 10d to view more comparison reports.