Review of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
February 26, 2024

Review of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

We have been a ManageEngine ADAudit Plus customer for over eight years and have used it to monitor protected Active Directory groups. The groups that we primarily monitor are groups that have elevated privileges within Active Directory, such as Domain Admins, Domain Operators, and groups that have privileges to reset passwords. If a member is removed or added to one of these groups ManageEngine ADAudit Plus will generate an email alert that goes out to system admins.
  • Monitors privledged group memberships
  • detailed reports are available
  • monitors changes to Group Policy settings
  • more robust reporting , dashboards, etc
  • enforcement of who has access to privileged information.
  • instant alerts on unwanted GPO changes, adds to system stability.
  • provides and audit trail for who did what, when , etc.
We are a health care organization so with direct patient care it is vital we maintain system uptime. With ManageEngine ADAudit Plus we are able to be notified quickly as to any Group Policy changes that may have an impact on Active Directory operations. If we suspect a GPO change may have impacted system uptime, we are able to look at the audit trail of GPO changes to determine any impact that may have occurred.
We used ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to determine the cause when a large number of users reporting accounts being locked out. We did an analysis of the ManageEngine ADAudit Plus logon logs and it was determined that users were the victims of password spray attacks. With this information we were able to build defenses against these password attacks.
We have better logging and alerting capabilities that are provided by ManageEngine ADAudit Plus.
Yes, it has. It is much easier to see what ManageEngine ADAudit Plus has captured that to search through Windows event logs.
We were using the Snare client that was only capable of forwarding logs to some type of syslog server. To be able to get meaning full reports or alerts from that system it would all need to be customized. This would require that you had the expertise on staff to set up these alerts and custom reports. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus does all this for you already to use.

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

in our environment we have found it to be most beneficial to as an alerting system when someone has been added to a privilege group that may not have been authorized to be in the group. These alerts go to the Domain Admins group that will then determine if the user role is authorized or not. We also use to track who has done Group Policy updates and may not have gone through the correct Change Control process.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Feature Ratings

Remote monitoring
Not Rated
Network device monitoring
Not Rated
Multiple Server Monitoring
9
Multi-device monitoring
Not Rated
Automated alerts and notifications
10
Service configuration management
Not Rated
Policy-based automation
Not Rated
Performance data reports
7
Customizable reporting
5
Data visualization
4
Risk analysis
Not Rated
Administrator access control
7