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  • Friday, January 18, 2013 11:11 AM
     
     
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    I am using Windows 2003 Std Edn. I want to keep tarck on all my windows server activities all changes in file & folder also 

    I want to get current and historical  reports as well 

    Does any one have a product or products they would recommend for this type of monitoring?

     

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  • Friday, January 18, 2013 12:26 PM
     
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    Hello Robin, 

    SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is the best tool to monitor windows servers.

    Here is an useful link for your reference to know more about system center tool. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/systemcenter/bb497976.aspx


    Regards, Ravikumar P

     
  • Friday, January 18, 2013 1:53 PM
     
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    Hi,

    SCOM is the best option as Ravikumar says. But if you do not have SCOM in your environment you can enable auditing on the files or folders you want to monitor. 
    The audit events will be written to security log file that you can veiw in Event Viewer - to archive the logs you must save them to a folder that is backed up!
    A complete guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738931(v=ws.10).aspx


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  • Friday, January 18, 2013 2:11 PM
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    If you are concerned only about file and folder changes, you might need to configure audit policies. Please see following thread

    File level Audit

    If you are looking for a product which is capable of monitoring OS level changes, SCOM is an efficient product as already suggested by Ravi.

    If you have specific questions on SCOM, SCOM has a dedicated forum, you may post your questions there.

    Apart from SCOM, there are both commercial and open source products available for server monitoring, you might want to explore their features as well.

    Windows 2008 Network - Daily Monitoring (applicable to WS 2003 as well)

    Thanks

    Regards, Santosh

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  • Monday, January 21, 2013 10:08 AM
     
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    Agree with with all SCOM is best tool for windows server auditing apart from this you can also check out other file server auditing software like them

    • LepideAuditor for FileServer
    • Netwrix file auditor
    • LepideAuditor for Active Directory
    • Solarwind server & app monitor

     
  • Monday, January 21, 2013 12:36 PM
     
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    SCOM will be the best to bet to find more on the SCOM start reading it from here 

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205987.aspx

    http://www.arabitpro.com

     
  • Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:15 AM
     
     
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    Can we generate weekly auditing reports for a file server automatically via setting some alerts through SCOM ??