Overall Satisfaction with ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
We use ManageEngine as an SIEM system for reporting on AD and other events. Various of our customers require SIEM systems and ManageEngine met the needs. It's pretty lightweight. We have about 50 workstations and 2 active AD controllers. Not a lot of usage against the ManageEngine but it mostly does the job. See later in the review for the good, bad, and ugly.
- Data capture against a wide variety of sources (logs, events, windows, Linux systems)
- Ability to find specific events in the logs
- Basically unlimited history
- Useful dashboard (although not really once you dig into it)
- It's based on Java engine that is slow -- reports are often difficult to build (we are going to upgrade the machine it's running on to see if this is the issue)
- Keeping this software up to date is a pain; there should be a better "update" function
- The naming and navigation are terrible -- it's never clear which feature you're looking for and where it's hidden in the menus
- Adding machines is not as easy as it should be; occasionally there are IP conflicts that are nearly impossible to resolve
- Gets the job done and meets SIEM checklist
- Occasionally has help assign responsibility for "mistakes"
- Provides some peace of mind for reporting
The reports are accurate and easy to get. There really hasn't been an "ah ha" moment from the systems, but that's really the nature of what it does. The ROI for the amount of effort and price is high. If you need a on premises, "check the box", cost effective SIEM systems I'd highly recommend checking out ManageEngine.
Not a lot -- but we were not really looking for this functionality. We don't make a lot of changes so it wasn't really needed. We occasionally pull reports to provide insights into changes, but if we didn't have the capability we would be okay doing it manually.
Again, not really something we focus on. We have better measures than session length, login and logout times and file activity to evaluate users. Once or twice we have used the data as quantification for other employee actions.
Does what it needs to do -- but ManageEngine really just provides reporting on events that have already happened. It's useful for trends and reporting but does not (is not designed to) provide active threat mitigation.
No. We don't use ManageEngine for any real-time activities. The system is to look at long-term trends and evaluate potential threats. ManageEngine has no ability to stop threats in real-time -- and by the time we'd look at a report it, the damage would be done.
Choice for ManageEngine was made on support, ease of implementation and cost. We were looking for a monitoring solution that was on premises and cost effective.
Do you think ManageEngine ADAudit Plus delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with ManageEngine ADAudit Plus's feature set?
Yes
Did ManageEngine ADAudit Plus live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy ManageEngine ADAudit Plus again?
Yes