Opiniones de ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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).

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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!

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos a favor

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!

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

Ease of use
Easy to navigate interface
Filters galore

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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.

Puntos en contra

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.

Puntos a favor

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!

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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

Puntos a favor

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

Puntos en contra

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