Key Features and Benefits

• Assures compliance through change monitoring by providing the visibility you need to stop inappropriate GPO modifications before they impact the security or availability of your Windows AD environment.
• Provides improved IT service levels and responsiveness by decreasing user and system downtime caused by errant GPO changes.
• Detects Group Policy changes to critical components of the Group Policy environment as they occur.
• Notifies when specified Group Policy change events occur and whether changes were authorized and delivers instant change notifications through email or pager. As a result, you are able to see and react to GPO changes immediately. When used in conjunction with NetIQ Group Policy Administrator™, the control system can classify the changes as authorized or unauthorized.
• Provides detailed Group Policy change history and delivers precise and complete documentation of GPO changes with convenient, in-depth tracking features.
• Delivers powerful, comprehensive reports linked to each change alert. Based on user-defined criteria, the auditing database presents your selected change events, including pre- and post-change values.
• Integrates with existing monitoring infrastructure to simplify configuration and deployment for fast and cost-effective implementation. Integrates most third-party systems management software including, AppManager®, NetIQ Security Manager™ and Microsoft Operations Manager.