The following table lists the navigation pane’s task lists and a brief description of the administrative tasks that can be performed. Many of the tasks listed require a specific Change Auditor license, which is indicated by the following codes in the last column of the table:
• Any - does not require a specific license; available with any license
• CAAD - Change Auditor for Active Directory
• CAEX - Change Auditor for Exchange
• CAFS - Change Auditor for Windows File Servers
• CASQL - Change Auditor for SQL Server
• CAAD-Q - Change Auditor for Active Directory Queries
• CAEMC - Change Auditor for EMC
• CANA - Change Auditor for NetApp
• CASP - Change Auditor for SharePoint
• CASW - Change Auditor for SonicWALL
For more detailed information on how to perform an administrative task or a description of the page that is displayed, refer to the appropriate chapter in the different Change Auditor user guides.
NOTE: The product will not prevent you from performing any of the administration tasks on the Administration Tasks tab; however, associated events will not be captured and/or associated protection will not occur unless the proper license is applied.
To hide unlicensed Change Auditor features from the Administration Tasks tab (including unavailable audit events throughout the client), use the Action | Hide Unlicensed Components command.
Table 15. Administration Task tab: Task descriptions
Task List/Task Description License
Configuration
The following tasks are available in the Configuration task list:
Agent Define and assign agent configurations.
For more information, see Agent Configurations.
Any
Coordinator Enable email alert notifications/reports, configure mail server to be used for SMTP alerting/reporting, define group
membership expansion, and modify agent heartbeat check interval.
For more information, see Coordinator Configuration.
Any
Purge Jobs Define and schedule purge jobs for deleting events from the production database.
For more information, see Purge Data from Change Auditor Database.
Any
Private Alerts and Reports View and manage all private search queries where alerting and/or reporting has been enabled.
For more information, see Disable Private Alerts and Reports.
Any
Report Layouts Define report layout templates which contain the header/footer information to be used in reports.
For more information, see Generate and Schedule Reports.
Any
Application User Interface Define who is authorized to use the various Change Auditor client features.
In addition you can define who is authorized to view the Active Directory and Group Policy protection tasks in Change Auditor.
For more information, see Change Auditor User Interface Authorization.
Any
Auditing
The Auditing task list is divided into separate lists that identify configuration tasks, forest-level tasks that are globally applied, tasks that define auditing for different applications, server-level tasks that must be assigned to an agent configuration, and tasks that define NAS device auditing and SonicWALL device auditing.
Configuration
Use the tasks under this heading to configure the audit events to be captured by Change Auditor and to define accounts that are to be excluded from auditing.
Audit Events Enable/disable event auditing and modify an event’s severity level or description.
For more information, see Enable/Disable Event Auditing.
Any
Excluded Accounts Create Excluded Accounts templates to define individual accounts that are to be excluded from Change Auditor auditing.
For more information, see Account Exclusion.
Any
Forest
Use the tasks under this heading to define custom auditing definitions for your Active Directory forest.
Active Directory Define custom Active Directory object class auditing.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor For Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Attributes Define custom Active Directory attribute auditing.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Member of Group Define a Member of Group auditing list to specify the users to be audited based on their group membership.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Excluded AD Query Define the Active Directory containers that are to be excluded from AD query auditing.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® Queries User Guide.
CAAD-Q
ADAM (AD LDS) Define custom ADAM (AD LDS) object auditing.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Attributes Define custom ADAM (AD LDS) attribute auditing.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD Table 15. Administration Task tab: Task descriptions
Task List/Task Description License
Applications
Use the tasks under this heading to define auditing for different types of applications within your environment.
Exchange Mailbox Define an Exchange Mailbox auditing list to specify which directory object’s mailbox activities are to be audited by Change Auditor for Exchange.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Exchange User Guide.
CAEX
Exchange Online Specify the Exchange Online mailboxes that are to be audited by Change Auditor for Exchange.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Exchange User Guide.
CAEX
SQL Create SQL Auditing templates to define the SQL instances and operations that are to be audited.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for SQL Server® User Guide.
CASQL
VMware Create VMware Auditing templates to define the VMware hosts to be audited and the Change Auditor agent to be used to audit these hosts.
For more information, see VMware Auditing.
Any
SharePoint Create SharePoint Auditing templates to define the SharePoint farm to be audited and the Change Auditor agent to be used to audit this farm.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for SharePoint® User Guide.
CASP
Server
Use the tasks under this heading to create auditing templates that can then be assigned to agent configurations to enable custom server-level auditing.
File System Create File System Auditing templates to define the files/folders that are to be audited.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Windows® File Servers User Guide.
CAFS
Registry Create Registry Auditing templates to define the registry keys and events that are to be audited.
For more information, see Registry Auditing.
Any
Services Create Service Auditing templates to specify the system services that are to be audited.
For more information, see Service Auditing.
Any
NAS
Use the tasks under this heading to create auditing templates for NAS devices.
EMC Create a separate EMC Auditing template for each CIFS file access protocol to be audited by Change Auditor, defining the EMC file server (CIFS), auditing scope and Change Auditor agent(s) that are to receive the EMC audit events.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for EMC® User Guide.
CAEMC Table 15. Administration Task tab: Task descriptions
Task List/Task Description License
NetApp Create a separate NetApp Auditing template for each NetApp filer to be audited by Change Auditor, defining the location of the NetApp filer, the auditing scope, and the Change Auditor agent(s) that are to receive the NetApp filer audit events.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for NetApp® User Guide.
CANA
SonicWALL
Use the tasks under this heading to create auditing templates for SonicWALL web site and cloud storage auditing.
Web Site Create SonicWALL Web Site Auditing templates to specify the web site URLs that are to be audited.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for SonicWALL™ User Guide.
CASW
Cloud Storage Create SonicWALL Cloud Storage Auditing templates to specify the cloud storage sites to be audited.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for SonicWALL™ User Guide.
CASW
Protection
The Protection task list is divided into separate task lists as well: one for forest-level tasks that are globally applied, one for tasks that define protection for applications, and another for server-level tasks that must be assigned to an agent configuration.
Forest
Use the tasks under this heading to define global protection definitions for your Active Directory forest.
Active Directory Create Active Directory Protection templates to define critical Active Directory objects that are to be protected against unauthorized modifications.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
ADAM (AD LDS) Create ADAM (AD LDS) Protection templates to define critical ADAM objects that are to be protected against unauthorized modifications.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Group Policy Create Group Policy Protection templates to define critical Group Policy objects that are to be protected against unauthorized modifications.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Active Directory® User Guide.
CAAD
Applications
Use the task under this heading to define global protection for your Exchange Mailbox application.
Exchange Mailbox Create Exchange Mailbox Protection templates to define critical Exchange Mailboxes that are to be protected against
unauthorized modifications.
For more information, see the Dell™ Change Auditor for Exchange User Guide.
CAEX Table 15. Administration Task tab: Task descriptions
Task List/Task Description License