change auditor for emc

Change Auditor for EMC

Track, audit and report on events and changes in real-time with our enhanced EMC security monitoring tool. Change Auditor for EMC provides real-time tracking, auditing, reporting and alerting on all changes to help ensure the security, compliance and control of files and folders. You can easily monitor, report on and analyze events and changes while staying alert to security concerns. You’ll instantly know who made what change when and where, and from what originating workstation for enhanced EMC security monitoring. You can then automatically generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for all change events for a complete auditing picture.

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Catch problems in real time

Event logging and change reporting for EMC file servers is time consuming using EMC-provided tools because you have to repeat the process for each server and you end up with a huge volume of data and a myriad of reports. Your data security is also at risk because with the limitations of EMC-provided tools, you may not find out about problems until it’s too late. But with Change Auditor for EMC, you’ll catch problems in real time.

Key Benefits

Centralized auditing

Monitor and audit all file server changes from multiple servers and locations all from one single console, using this EMC security monitoring solution.

At-a-glance display

Track user and administrator activity with detailed information for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.

Real-time alerts on the move

Send critical change and pattern alerts to email and mobile devices to prompt immediate action, even while you're not on site.

SIEM integration

Enrich SIEM solutions including Sentinel, Splunk, ArcSight, QRadar or any platform supporting Syslog by integrating Change Auditor’s detailed activity logs.

Auditor-ready reporting

Generate comprehensive reports for best practices and regulatory compliance mandates for GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA and more.

Highlighted Features

Security timelines
Track and filter AD and Azure AD change events in order to improve forensic analysis and security incident response.
Superior auditing engine
Get instant access to change details, related events, user actions, and workstation data to remove security guesswork.
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Get one-click access to change details and related user or workstation events to remove security guesswork.

Specifications

There are specific system requirements for the Change Auditor coordinator (server-side), Change Auditor client (client-side), Change Auditor agent (server-side), and the Change Auditor workstation and web client (optional components). For a full list of system requirements and required permissions for all components and target systems that can be audited by Change Auditor please refer to the Change Auditor Release Notes.

The Change Auditor coordinator is responsible for fulfilling client and agent requests and for generating alerts.

Processor

Quad core Intel® Core™ i7 equivalent or better

Memory

Minimum: 8 GB RAM or better

Recommended: 32 GB RAM or better

SQL Server

SQL databases supported up to the following versions:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS) with SQL authentication or Azure Active Directory authentication

NOTE: Performance may vary depending on network configuration, topology, and Azure SQL Managed Instance configuration.

NOTE: Change Auditor supports SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Clusters, and databases that have row and page compression applied.

Operating system

Installation platforms (x64) supported up to the following versions:

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2025

NOTE: Microsoft Windows Data Access Components (MDAC) must be enabled. (MDAC is part of the operating system and enabled by default.)

Coordinator software and configuration

For the best performance, Quest strongly recommends:

  • Install the Change Auditor coordinator on a dedicated member server.
  • The Change Auditor database should be configured on a separate, dedicated SQL server instance.

NOTE: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server is required when the Change Auditor database resides on Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Active Directory authentication is selected.

NOTE: Do NOT pre-allocate a fixed size for the Change Auditor database.

In addition, the following software/configuration is required:

  • The coordinator must have LDAP and GC connectivity to all domain controllers in the local domain and the forest root domain.
  • x64 version of Microsoft’s .NET Framework 4.8
  • x64 version of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 6.0
  • x64 version of Microsoft SQLXML 4.0

Coordinator footprint

  • Estimated hard disk space used: 1 GB.
  • Coordinator RAM usage is highly dependent on the environment, number of agent connections, and event volume.
  • Estimated database size will vary depending on the number of agents deployed and audited events captured.

Additional Account Coordinator minimum permissions required, please see Change Auditor Installation Guide .

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