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What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with…
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- Data visualization (42)9.090%
- Administrator access control (45)8.888%
- Customizable reporting (47)7.878%
- Automated alerts and notifications (45)7.171%
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$595
On Premise
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$945
On Premise
per year
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What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.
- Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.
- Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with a single, correlated view of all the activities happening across both on-premises AD and Azure AD.
- Monitor every user's logon and logoff activity, including every successful and failed login attempt across network workstations.
- Audit Windows file servers, failover clusters, NetApp, and EMC storage to document changes to files and folders.
- Monitor system configurations, program files, and folder changes to ensure file integrity.
- Track changes across Windows servers, printers, and USB devices with a summary of events.
- Leverage advanced statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to detect anomalous behaviour and defend against cyber attacks.
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Features
Monitoring Tasks Features
- Supported: Remote monitoring
- Supported: Network device monitoring
- Supported: Multiple Server Monitoring
- Supported: Multi-device monitoring
- Supported: Automated alerts and notifications
Management Tasks Features
- Supported: Service configuration management
- Supported: Policy-based automation
Reporting Features
- Supported: Performance data reports
- Supported: Customizable reporting
- Supported: Data visualization
- Supported: Risk analysis
Security Features
- Supported: Administrator access control
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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus starts at $595.
Netwrix Auditor, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) are common alternatives for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus.
Reviewers rate Multiple Server Monitoring highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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February 22, 2024
Simple and Cheap AD Reporting.
We use AdAudit to centrally repository all Active Directory user and system events. And do monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting on user interactions, permission changes, account creations, and deletions. And for helping find where people get locked out. Great tool for AD reporting all around! You can create reports in various file formats; pdf, csv, xls, etc for the necessary consumption needs.
- AD reporting.
- Live user account event research and review.
- network drive access permission changes.
- some of the reports have bugs and have been long-standing issues not resolved for years.
- web portal has not really changed in look & feel in years.
- not always the easiest to customize reports.
90%
9.0
75%
7.5
75%
7.5
80%
8.0
- We added quarterly AD user reporting to our financial auditing process easily.
- We added monthly user account membership reviewing.
- Added the ability to troubleshoot user lockout ad hoc to IT controls.
Group membership reviewing, quarterly user access control reporting, and account lockout controls have been the biggest visibility improvements with this software. It is really easy and scalable to handle user and network growth. Even the ability to add other reports from existing data is handy.
We only use the reporting tools for users and file shares for group permissions. We have the other advanced AD reporting features for AD admin controls we do not use. Though we acknowledge, they exist and can be leveraged. For what we use, this tool is very cheap and very effective in completing report analysis timely and effective.
We do not use any of the time and session-based reports. This is out of the scope of our requirements.
From a user security and monitoring perspective, this tool is very helpful and easy to use. From a Window Server and operation, I see no changes to behavior. Over the course of 5 years, we have upgraded from Windows Server 2016 to 2019 and this year to 2022. Nothing changed in the backend functionality, reporting, or options in AdAudit.
Nothing has changed over time in any of the reporting and features we use in the product. We just noticed some of the reports have improvements in their cleanliness of reporting and bug fixes.
ManageEngine is very cheaper to get into and expand its use. It's a robust but not quite as powerful application as something like Quest or others. But for the most prevalent and needed, AD reporting requirements will meet your needs and expectations.
5
The users of ADAudit are in the IT team; all IT Administrators and the IT Manager. We use it for auditing logging, expiration, group management, account lockouts, and a number of other quarterly and yearly reports. The reports we generate are used by our finance team, executive team, and external auditors.
2
The two IT Administrators we have here cover all AD, Exchange, network, database, virtualization and WAN networking. And, are the senior administrators for all higher level Active Directory configuration. Which means we make sure the reports generated from ADAudit are complete, accurate, and up to date for reporting and consumption purposes.
- Account Review
- Quarterly/Yearly reporting and auditing
- Permission issues and tech support logging
- Troubleshooting login issues from odd source devices. account lockout management
- Troubleshooting vpn via NPS
- File audit logging for network drives
- If and when we get to M365 we can use it for auditing
- 3rd Party m365 auditing
- Any new external auditor report requests
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
ADAudit price point is low compared to Quest and other AD management tools. The out of box software features in the base price is far better than competitors so it was a simple decision to pick ManageEngine. I would happily go back and buy this software again.
I would not change my decision or license options. The software does what we need it to!
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
We implemented ADAudit where it gets ad event logs only and does not provide any self service options nor any advanced AD admin management options to impact setup, configuration, nor general administration. For us, it was easy to bolt this on and train and use post setup.
- VM requirements (minor)
- AD version and configuration tweaks for the software
- how to set up the software with an external SQL DB
No we did not. This software is not a priority application for IT nor users. So normal support included with the software is all we need!
Yes
We updated ADAudit many times and have found issues during and right after the update. We've opened cases with support and they have been prompt, resourceful and applied a workaround or fix usually within a couple hours to at most a day.
We did a software update 2 years ago which was needed because we found a problem in the software on the previous patch. This update was supposed to fix the issue. After updating we found a new problem and support gave us a workaround fix until the next future update would come out with this new issue fixed in it. Great support to date!
- Canned reports are easy to generate, print and review
- Filtering AD content and generate custom reports or filtered reports is easy to do
- Viewing new AD group content and reports right after account/group creation is easy to do.
- Patching the software and sometimes when there are errors updating the software its not easy to resolve without tech support help
- Custom report creation is difficult to learn and takes some learned AD experience to create them
- Understanding licensing isn't that easy to navigate since there are a lot of license add-ons available
- There is no holistic interface for the ManageEngine portals to cohesively manage all of them together and centrally navigate between
Yes
You can poke your ADAudit web portal externally if you need to. but i don't recommend it as that's a security risk you should not need to do. IT Admins i don't believe need a mobile client to do their job for staff. However, the web interface from domain machines is far powerful enough to do anything they need for staff.
February 22, 2024
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus.
AD Audit plus lets our IT staff track changes and alerts to AD activities. Security events and change management are easily tracked, recorded, and reported.
- Detects new users, privileged users.
- Detects failed and successful login attempts.
- Detects new computers added to domain.
- Detects Group Policy Changes.
- Integration with Azure could be better documented.
- More analytics for compliance templates.
- More flexible custom reports.
82%
8.2
70%
7.0
77.5%
7.8
80%
8.0
- Meets requirements of Security Guidelines for Compliance.
- Provides supporting information for Data Governance Policies.
- Provides Support for Change Management.
Proved to save over 10 hours a week of the event and log reviews. Insight into AD is amazing.
Peace of mind. Is staff able to respond and investigate potential security incidents as well as confirm authorized changes?
Ability to use AI to determine unusual activity is valuable. Presents patterns of user activity.
The product meets the objectives of CIS, PCI, and Hippa compliance for our organization.
Custom reports and logs save 10-15 hours per week of IT staff time.
They have different feature sets but both are valuable to our organization.
4
Technology
4
System Management
- Compliance
- Audit
- Change Mgmt.
- TRoubleshooting
- Quality Control
- Training
- Reporting Incidents
No
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
On Premise AD, and Cloud Azure Integration
none
- Implemented in-house
Yes
On Premise then Azure
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
Service Account and monitoring
- service account
- group policy
- Online Training
no
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
easy
No - we have not done any custom code
no
NO. Havent Needed
No
Advanced Query quick response
- Reporting
- Change Management
- New Computer Accounts
- Azure Integration
- Server Auditing
- Service Account Setup
- Log Viewer
tricky
- no
no
- File import/export
no
none
price
none
Yes
smooth
- better reports
- smooth interface / flow
No
No