Chef Inspec on 32 bit Windows 2008 servers

Question

We want to Scan our 32 bit Windows 2008 servers using Inspec. But Chef doesn't have a Inspec Client for this version of Windows.

Is there a way we can use Inspec in our environment?

Cheers

Answer 1

The InSpec client is run from a workstation or compliance analysis server. You don't install it on the target being scanned (unlike Chef, which uses a more traditional agent model). That said, a lot of stuff might not work unless you install newer versions of Powershell and whatnot, and I'm not entirely sure they support such old versions of WinRM.