SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

AD Reports

Folder permissions discovery

Implementation process

File server permissions management

File server audits and alerts

Alert types and settings are not sufficient and there are lots of bugs

Manage Active Directory Users and Groups

User creation using templates and automation

Documentation of changes

You cannot create organizational units in the AD with it.

Automation and templates need knowledge of JSON and are not intuitive.

Deleted folders cannot automatically delete from recertification as well.

Very good integration with Active Directory

Tracking changes made in Active Directory

Approvals for access to different group memberships

Helps us to improve our processes

The emails generated could be improved, a little HTML or RTF goes a long way to readability

The UI was designed by a coder, would be better to have some usability testing done.

Better integration with non AD applications

Automation

Reporting

Ease of installation and upgrade

Level of access should be different in the Self Service portal, depending on where you want access

Support is not the greatest I've seen

Windows File Server Auditing

Exchange Auditing Software

Active Directory Auditing Tool

Active Directory Permissions Reporting Tool

Active Directory Reporting Solution

Monitor and Manage OneDrive Permissions

New User Creation

Security group maintenance - eg displaying all groups which are empty.

visual representation of all security permissions set on shared files/folders on our file/print servers

The main gripe I have is the process of creating user templates. At present, You have to use a 3rd party addon to create new user account templates. It would be great to have this integrated with ARM as default.

Report on file permissions

Lists actions performed on files by users

AD management

Provide reports on accounts in AD

Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.

Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.

Auditing a particular use is very simple and clear

You can generate automated reports for review

It is easy to set-up

The user interface is not very modern or fancy

It does not have a lot of integrations with our identify providers beside Active Directory

The reports cannot be customised alot

Auditing is simplified for user permissions and access to corporate resources. The flow diagrams show which group is granting access.

Provisioning if user accounts is simplified and standardized along with easy detection of scope creep.

Developing of a self service password reset portal would make ARM even more critical to our infrastructure.

Easy to use, drag and drop, permission change with every change made logged

Generating automated Reports for Dataowners to review

Log all activity on the File server in case of Breaches or Viruses

Design - the old 8Man design was more friendly

I miss to option to create custom "Who has access here" reports. My Dataowners dont need to know where users have List rights

File Access Rights

Reporting

Exchange reporting

Data owners grant access rights to files and folders.

Data owners manage group membership.

Data owner management (reports from data owner changes).

Exchange access reports

Recertification overview for admins (which was not recertified until now).

More webinars needed to get all the function and to get more out of the product.

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.

The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.

One thing I'd like to see is more customization within the reports. Company branding and colors as well as individual items to include or exclude.

Alerts for access and changes to Windows file servers

Automation

Reporting aspects

Regulatory requirements

Audit changes to active directory and group policy

The GUI can be misleading at times in terms of what you're actually looking for

Cumbersome in some places