ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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!

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Avantages

Ease of use
Easy to navigate interface
Filters galore

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

You need to buy the modules for separate

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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!

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

Still no any errors found about this tool

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

Against: High cost.

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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