ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

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What I have liked most about this tool is it's auditing of file capability through monitoring of file creation, file editing, and other security features in real time.

Nachteile

Cost is the only limiting factor here, this tool is seriously expensive

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Easy to access, well defined menu system. Decent dashboard to drill down.

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Some minor after setup configuration on Active directory is required. The install wizard could be better.

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I like the amount of data that ADAudit Plus can gather. It can pull your file server auditing, your domain controller auditing, and a whole host of other things. You can also setup alerting on specific events that makes it easy to see what's happening with your servers.

Nachteile

The upgrade process is the worst thing I've ever seen in a software product. You have to put your build number into the support website, download a major upgrade, install that, and then download a service pack, and install that. It doesn't sound so bad, but the upgrade process itself is dependent on this antiquated process that uses a batch file and a Java utility. It fails more often than not and the upgrade instructions listed on ManageEngine's website has inaccurate data (lists the wrong batch files to use, etc).

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I can monitor domain controller activity, users logon failures or locked.

Nachteile

It have too many functions, we don't use them all.

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I love how I can integrate this tool with other external to check the login and access controls

Nachteile

It's costly and if it can be made cheaper the better

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- A substantial list of report templates and options out of the box
- Good set of predefined alerts (customizable)
- Product is generally stable

Nachteile

- Alert management options are limited
- Limited added value when compared with Microsoft security solutions for Entra ID

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Analytics and report feature is perfect highlighting all activities that we track.

Nachteile

The only limitation of this tool is the cost only, it is abit expensive

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It's very efficient, and has a smooth UI overall. We met them at DTX and they impressed us.

Nachteile

We use an older version, but it works. I could have a friendlier UI though

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It has a lot of reports already on it. You can use report templates to create a report. For active directory but in same time you can use for auditing file servers. It has DNS auditing and Exchange users and groups too.

Nachteile

Archiving model isn't very useful. It isn't easy to take something from archived logs.

Vorteile

Capability to audit even minute changes that have happened on domain controllers (users, computers, Groups, GPOs, PSOs, DNS Zones) and on user workstations.

Nachteile

Not having the option to add in bulk workstations for auditing.

Vorteile

ADAudit Plus ha sido una solución increíble para nuestra organización. Sus funciones impactantes nos han permitido tener un control total sobre las actividades de auditoría en nuestra red. Además, es extremadamente fácil de utilizar, incluso para aquellos sin experiencia técnica. Nos ha impresionado lo sencilla que ha sido la integración con nuestro sistema existente. ¡Recomendaría ADAudit Plus a cualquier empresa que busque una solución completa y de fácil implementación para el monitoreo de auditorías!

Nachteile

Lamentablemente, una de las aspectos negativos que encontré con ADAudit Plus fue la falta de personalización en ciertas funciones. Me hubiera gustado tener más opciones para adaptar algunas características a nuestras necesidades específicas. Aunque en general, ADAudit Plus es una solución sólida, este aspecto podría ser mejorado en futuras actualizaciones para brindar una experiencia aún más personalizada

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Vorteile

I mostly like AD Audit Plus because of its User-Friendly dashboard.

Nachteile

I think Prices are bit higher. That is the thing I like least.

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ADAudit Plus enables us to monitor, report, and track multiple AD changes and events. This is immensely valuable when it comes to user support but also with compliance and maturity of a IT organization. You can monitor changes to critical AD infrastructure and this helps drive accountability.

Nachteile

The overall usage and functionality of ADAudit Plus is very good, there is nothing that stands out as something we did not dislike. We can do a bit of nit-picking and say we do not like the interface, or some of the reports are not something we use in our region. However overall, the software is awesome.

Vorteile

We have integration with various products and mainly from our helpdesk.

We use this to monitor changes to user accounts - we have some restricted groups for access to some systems, so if someone copies a user and the new user should not be in one of these groups, it blocks it and alerts us.

Useful for tracking locked accounts as to where/why they are being locked.

We use it daily to check failed logins, for example when someone with an expired password (or leaver) has left a PC logged in generating thousands of audit failures in AD. We can then identify and resolve these easily.

Nachteile

Setup for some of the above can be quite complex and we can sometimes catch ourselves out if the rules are too strict. (Manually adding someone to a group and forgetting we restricted it for example).

Vorteile

AD Auditing is only a necessity for regulatory requirements and when you need it the most. However, AD Audit also provides intuitive reporting functionality for those times you can't easily give a quick answer, AD Audit is there for you.

Nachteile

Some of the upgrades are a bit of a pain due to services, and it's hard to install multiple products on the same server due to port usage and service installations.

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Configuration is easy, there are many canned reports to pull daily, monthly, and quarterly reports on changed and access to AD and other integrations. The search function is well put together to tell you what you need to know quickly. Has instant alerts for critical changes and AD restore.

Nachteile

A few times we needed information but our auditing GPOs we're not properly set up. More our fault than theirs. You can't audit file shares from a DC which is a downside, I monitor a replicated DFS share but it won't show who make the changes on the non DC since that's the primary file server, just says system. Should work fine if you don't use DC for file shares. It would be nice if you could monitor who locks up a SQL database with a large query

Vorteile

ADAudit Plus ensures computer security and compliance for us since we use Active Directory servers. It provides us with an audit trail detailing any changes made by our technicians to the configuration or content of the server so we can stay secure and detect any malicious behavior. It also helps us to know what steps to take in the event that some changes bring about a negative effect.

Nachteile

There’s so much information that gets created as a result of the auditing function and sometimes finding the right and accurate report requires going through quite a bit of data to get the exact one you’re looking for. But no tool is really perfect, and this one has some good things to offer.

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As a Head of Department I wasn't involved in the setting up of the software, so the first I saw it in anger was when I first logged on. It is really intuitive and there are tons of reports already set up - this meant that I found a potential error in our network permissions setup within minutes of logging on, which once resolved I think will improve performance enough for our users that the time saved will pay for ADAudit Plus within weeks. Amazed!

Nachteile

Nothing so far, although the breadth and depth of reports available is pretty daunting at first.

Vorteile

I like how clear and easy to use the UI is, my biggest qualm with active directory is it seems like most of the fields are intersparsed in random places and it doesn't always give you a full picture of whats going on. With AD audit plus you are able to get clear concise information.

Nachteile

Sometimes the web UI glitches out, but this may be due to our implementation and not necessarily the software.

Vorteile

It has a particularly user-friendly interface and simple to use. The alarm can be generated when the log is in accordance with the conditions determined on the application.

Nachteile

The quality of the support team is insufficient to solve problems of the product and quickly shut down calls.

Vorteile

File server auditing is the best so far, very easy to use. UI is well designed. Ad reporting is really helping us to find out who has an old session and locked account

Nachteile

AD audit tool can be improved as far as event log wise. you have to run the software as service, don't forget that, The pricing is a little bit higher.

Vorteile

AD audit most useful software for large active directory environment. You can see what user doing very easily and you can export reports about that. Also if you add your fileserver, it will be act a perfect file server auditor.

Nachteile

Actually there is no negative things but if it has a step to step initial configuration wizard will be good.

Vorteile

Simple reporting structure AD Audit Plus has is the coolest feature. You can dig deeper to any issue related to user accounts using this just with two three clicks.

Nachteile

If archiving option made simplified, it will be perfect. It gives a little hassle to retrieve log from the archive.

Vorteile

Fast, many predefined reports. Easy to set up, updates are comming quite often, fixing bugs and adding new functionality. Very good support.

Nachteile

The price is too high, we were using logging only for 2 domain controllers and 2 file servers, but that was too expensive in comparision to functionality.

Vorteile

Different kinds of reports and customization of reports are available for all modules and the same can be saved in different formats

Nachteile

Combined with Asset management option could give more information for administrator to maintain and get more reports

Vorteile

I like all the functionalities that ADAudit Plus provides, it has plenty of features that i have yet to play around with. This product makes trouble shooting easier and root cause analysis a breeze.

Nachteile

Although AD audit has a bunch of features, the UI is a bit cluttered and intimidating if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. Once you know where things are, everything becomes easier.

Vorteile

Easy to add nodes as well as report generating. good GUI which make it much easier to access console and mange it.

Nachteile

Co-relation part of custom report generating is bit confusing for me but support team can help in same as well.

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With AdAudit, I was able to keep track of users access and what they were doing. With this information, I can keep users account clean and server access within compliance. The application was easy to setup, but need assistance from support to fully configure. Support is very helpful!

Nachteile

I was an early adopter with ADAudit from ManageEngine. It was easy to install, but it didn't work 100%. I needed to call support to get the last 10% working. It wasn't something I can do as they would remote to our environement and go into command line run various commands and scripts.

Vorteile

The software is always active, registering changes in Active Directory and can alert you about them. For instance, we get notifications when an account is added, changed or has gained privileged access. This makes it easier to be 'on top' of security events.

Nachteile

The software's update procedure is error prone. It runs in Java and not all updates are succesful.

Vorteile

The ability to track everything that’s going on in my domain and who actually made changes in the domain.

Nachteile

There is a lot of options and sometimes it’s hard to find what you need if never used before.

Vorteile

ADAudit Plus actually does a lot more than just audit AD. In an environment where you have multiple technicians making changes to AD, it's helpful to have an audit trail for both security reasons, as well as troubleshooting when a change is made that produces an unexpected or undesirable affect. With the audit trail it's easy to see what the most recent changes were so they can be rolled back if necessary.

This product will actually do some auditing of your file servers as well, which we found fairly helpful. When a file gets deleted, it's never a problem to restore it, but it's helpful to be able to see who deleted the file so you can either identify malicious activity or advise a user of what's happening in case they're not aware that they're removing needed information.

Vorteile

Ease of use
Easy to navigate interface
Filters galore

Nachteile

No real cons to mention.
Filters could be a bit much to an inexperienced user.

Vorteile

the simplicity and detailed file audit.
we now have a fully audited file system, who access a file and when.

Nachteile

it takes a bit of getting used to but once the basics out the way, the software works a treat

Vorteile

It has a lot of features and can give a lot of auditing data. It's also fairly cheap and gives amazing reports.

Nachteile

Hard to setup
Annual fees
Requires a lot of resources to run (setup separate VM)
Not great support

Vorteile

Its quite simple to setup on the domain, we have a number of domain controllers and it connected to all of these just fine.

Nachteile

Some of the reports require some tweaking to get them working correctly.

Vorteile

Easy to deploy, you only pass the info of your domain like the domain controllers and thats almost all

Nachteile

You need to buy the modules for separate

Vorteile

Something remarkable is that In real time we monitor changes in Windows advertising objects (users, groups, units, Group Policy objects, computers, schemes, DNS and systems) and receive email notifications from unauthorized network access or modification of events.

Nachteile

It's a bit complicated to configure. It takes some time to tune up. It's perfectly normal since no software can predict how your network is configured.

Vorteile

Creating alerts as per ones requirement is the best feature like ransomware, of this app, one can get information on any change that is made in files or folders. able to check the files that aren't used since long and many more beautiful features one can achieve if configure effectively based on ones company requirement.

Nachteile

Forums not available , could be it is new in the market. well hope down the line the user would increase and a forum will be created that would help to get the solution and troubleshoot when and then needed.

Vorteile

Reporting is pro as long as your AD infrastructure is working properly! Helps address security holes you might otherwise miss with day to day operations!

Nachteile

Reporting is a pro and a con with accuracy. Doesn't always read every attribute correctly but nothing is always 100%

Vorteile

You can track active directory lockouts and find details of the lockouts. Has a good splash page that you can edit with different graphs.

Nachteile

Can be a bit clunky when trying to find search. Would be easier if you could quickly search by user.

Vorteile

Affordable and easy to use. It gathers a ton of useful information for internal audit support for SOX.

Nachteile

Breaks often, you need to keep an eye on it that it does not stop running if your relying on the data.

Vorteile

Easily keep track of your active directory. Centralize the discovery of events in your environment. Find who did what in a really fast time

Nachteile

Despite know the ADManager is for the present and ADAudit is for the past, i still think they could be a single tool, with licensing options to one or the other.

Vorteile

The simplicity of this product is fantastic. Its on of the easiest and most simple piece of software to use with the most effective results. Definitely bang for buck.

Nachteile

the most time consuming is the setup, but other than that its not a complex product to use.

Vorteile

This software monitors every aspect of your AD environment, and can even monitor file shares, member, servers, and desktops as well. Any piece of data or information you would need to know is there.

Nachteile

However, it can be sometimes very hard to find. There is a huge amount of data to sort through, and many reports to look through to find what you are looking for.

Vorteile

The most attractive thing about this tool is the reporting, the reports are very accurate and really understandable. And the web-based is really easy to use.

Nachteile

Still no any errors found about this tool

Vorteile

We are now able to access very granular reports on all aspects of Active Directory auditing. Prior methodology, before AD Audit Plus was very laborious.

Nachteile

We would like to have application high-availability where the AD Audit Plus service fails on a primary server, then the service automatically starts on a standby server.

Vorteile

Easy to use tool, I like the fact of having different graphics, it is quite complete, it can track and correct errors, finding details of blocks and eliminating the necessary information.

Nachteile

Against: High cost.

In General: It can be used reliably, knowing that it can detect any malicious information. It is easy to handle.

Vorteile

IT is very user friendly software. Any IT person who has basic knowledge of AD and servers can do their work with this software.

Nachteile

It is bit difficult but if i am using continuously then only can get the least details.