ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

If you want a software that can audit the entire Active Directory of your system and provide reliable reports to keep a track of all the changes then ManageEngine ADAudit Plus version 4 is certainly the ultimate solution for you. ADAudit Plus is a brilliant tool that aids in the process of auditing enterprise-wide changes in the Active Directory by generating reports and alerts which can help the IT administrator to get relevant security needs. It also fetches them with detailed information regarding the changes taking place in the systems and information of business add-ons. With this tool you can get an idea of what kinds of activities are performed by whom together with the place and date of carrying out the operation. For better analysis or editing, this utility gives an option of exporting the outputs in to varied formats like html, PDF, XLS and CSV.

ADAudit Plus offers a wide range of advantages. It allows a display of comprehensive reports of all administrative changes together with logon events. For configuring ADAudit Plus to issue alert or reports on certain events you can use filler based rules. On all the change events taking place, this tool will avail all the alerts directly in your inbox. Not just current changes but the entire history of Active Directory changes along with Group Policy objects can be obtained with the ADAudit Plus. This also will help you to carryout an analysis of all the reports. You can perfectly organize the entire Event log Data which helps in Compliance Auditing and Security needs. Audit of Logon or Logoff activities in MS Server environment of Member Server, authentication of sharing files, Monitor- Audit-Report vFiler and NetApp Filer Changes are some other feature that this tool avails.

Owing to its high performance and the vast amount of features and functions the application comes with earns it a score of four and half rating points.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus provides complete audit of Active Directory. The audit reporting and alerting software provides detailed change information on: user and computer accounts, user activity, user and group history, group memberships, logon activity, GPO changes, OU changes, administrative changes and domain policy changes. Active Directory Event log data are fetched from its domain controllers by ADAudit Plus - they are interpreted, categorized and stored. The data stored is presented to the user, on demand, as comprehensive and easily understandable reports on a web interface. The reports state: who did what action(s) (or) what event(s) occurred in AD - when and from where. Further, alerts can be configured for specific events and delivered via email. The distinct advantages of ADAudit Plus include: * Comprehensive Auditing: Captures every single activity or event in Active Directory and presents them as reports, charts and also alerts them. The data collected can be viewed at the time of desire. * Pre-configured reports: ADAudit Plus has a host of pre-configured reports that are categorized under logon, user management, group management, computer management and domain policy changes. * Configurable Filters: Along with pre-configured reports, ADAudit Plus also allows users to configure reports for any desired event under the above listed categories with the help of its unique user-defined filters. * Graphs, reports and alerts can be viewed on a convenient web interface that can be easily interpreted. * Real Time Alerts and Email Notifications on change events. *Schedule and Email Audit Reports. * Collected/ Processed data are stratified and archived, this can be effectively used for compliance needs. With its inclusive features ADAudit Plus provides IT administrators unprecedented advantages in governing their network systems and IT auditors the right set of data to fulfill compliance requirements.