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Both ADAudit Plus and Quest Change Auditor provide comprehensive auditing capabilities. While ADAudit Plus collects data from the security logs, Quest Change Auditor by-passes the native security logs to collect this data. Both products have their own advantages this sheet provides a comparison of both these vendors allowing users to make an informed choice.
| NEED | ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Try now |
Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidation of Audit Data | Yes, from the security logs of multiple computers into a single ADAudit Plus Database. | ||
| WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHAT of AD changes | |||
| Correlation of Audit Events | Pre-configured and customizable | ||
| Audit Trail of Events | |||
| Filter and Search | Extensive. | ||
| Custom Alerts | Pre-defined severity based alerts | ||
| Email Notification of Alerts | |||
| Archival | Consolidated; Time-stamped; Easily reproducible | The data is stored in the product. | |
| Audit Reporting Functions | |||
| Comprehensive Audit Reports on Active Directory changes | |||
| Compliance Ready Reports | SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GLBA and FISMA | ||
| Before and After values of a Change | |||
| GPO Audit Reports | |||
| Group Policy Settings Auditing | Also reports on Permission changes. | ||
| Custom Reports | Easy to create | ||
| History Reports | |||
| Export, Sort, Modify Report columns to convenience | |||
| Scheduling of Reports | Yes with Email Support. | ||
| User, Computer, Group, OU Management Audit | Yes. Creation, Modification, Deletions and Membership Additions | ||
| Logon/Logoff Audit Reporting | |||
| Enhanced Features for better auditing: | |||
| Graphical snapshots of Domain AD Changes on its Dashboard | Yes. Trend lines, Charts, Bar Graphs etc., are used to convey a message in the easiest of formats. | ||
| Graphical Representation of reported audit data | |||
| Accessibility from anywhere in the Domain using a web-browser | |||
| Agentless collection of Audit Data | Requires Agents | ||
| Multi-User Role based Access | |||
| External Auditor Access | |||
| Audit Information from Multiple Domains | |||
| Drill-down reports to specific User/ object Changes | |||
| User Defined Reports | NA | ||
| Collects and Reports on Filtered Audit Data | NA | ||
| Administrator Friendly | Options like Event Clean-Up and Restore, Diskspace Alert, Alert on unsuccessful eventlog collections, Delete alerts, Clear alerts ensures that the product is administrator friendly. | NA | |
| Convenience and Pricing: | |||
| Licensing | Based on number of Servers | User based | |
| Installation | Easy, Wizard based and can be done in minutes | Requires expert guidance for installation and deployment. | |
| Get Started | Within hours of install, the product starts collecting data. | No. Installation and deployment might extend for weeks. | |
| Easy Web Based Access | Yes. Can be accessed from anywhere in the domain. | ||
ADAudit Plus is far more convenient audit software when compared to Quest Change Auditor. This has been substantiated by its ease-of-installation, completely web based user interface, Agentless data collection technology and accessibility from anywhere in the network, not to forget it also provides a secure portal for Non-AD users like auditors to access audit data. ADAudit Plus will audit Active Directory, File Servers, Member Servers and Net App Filers in one single installed software.
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