Yep,
Looked at Spotlight but its too expensive for the budget, Quest does have good tools, but again too much for the budget. I will look back to MOM again, I take it can handle 500-600 servers Ad and the works. Z ________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Documentation, Restore and snapshoting of Server permissions software question I've always been a fan of MOM/SCOM/SCE or whatever it is now for monitoring, but that's just because I've used it for a long time and it's really easy for me to set up and configure now that I'm used to it. I also like Quest's tools for monitoring/reporting on AD (much better than MOM's), but the cost of Spotlight and Reporter may be a little prohibitive if you have any budgetary constraints. On 04/01/2008, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To the list, After much angst and nagging, I have been given the go ahead to take a look into software that will do the following. For those with experience in using software to cover these areas and others, please feel free to chime in what has worked well for you and your staffs. I need the software to do the following. 1) Snapshot the NTFS/Share permissions on a server by server basis over time, to assist in recovery if my helpdesk etc etc steps on the permissions and causes issues with the servers. ( I believe Scriptlogic and Security Explorer and a few others in this realm I have seen but not played with personally) 2) Eventlog management tools to track, alert, manage and archive logs to a SQL Database or other remote medium for auditing and compliance. I can see this with both Agent based and non-agent based deployments. ( GFI, SMS, MOM, Configuresoft, Netpro, Quest, etc etc?) I am looking to track the following: AD changes, modifications, down to an attribute level, server permission changes, additions, deletes at the file and folder level, with a nice reporting mechanism accordingly, to get proactive with this) ( Also its an internal audit recommendation) Feel free to chime in on the good/bad/ugly of the situation. Z ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ < http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> > ~ -- James Rankin Tel: +44 7902 193912 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
