Change Auditor 7.5 - User Guide

View event information

View event information

Change Auditor provides access to the associated Event Reference Guide which contains detailed descriptions for each event, including how Change Auditor detected the configuration change event, what the changed parameter controls, and the consequence of such a change.

To view the event reference guide:

1	Open the Audit Events page.

2	Select an event from the list and click Knowledge Base.

 

Account Exclusion

Account Exclusion

•	Introduction

•	Excluded Accounts Auditing page

•	Excluded Accounts templates

•	Excluded Accounts wizard

Introduction

Introduction

Account exclusion allows you to define a list of trusted accounts to exclude from auditing. This enables you to exclude events generated by accounts that make a large number of changes or by accounts which are trusted.

To use account exclusion, you must first define the user/computer accounts that can make changes without triggering an event in Change Auditor:

1	Create an Excluded Accounts template which specifies the user and/or computer accounts that are to be excluded from the auditing process. For more information on creating a template, refer to Excluded Accounts templates.

2	Add this template to an agent configuration. For more information on how to add a template to an agent configuration, refer to Define agent configurations.

3	Assign the agent configuration to Change Auditor agents. For more information on how to assign an agent configuration to an agent, refer to Assign agent configurations to server agents.

Excluded Accounts Auditing page

Excluded Accounts Auditing page

The Excluded Accounts Auditing page is displayed when Excluded Accounts is selected from the Auditing task in the navigation pane of the Administration Tasks tab. From this page you can launch the Excluded Accounts wizard to create a new template. You can also edit existing templates, disable/enable templates, and remove templates that are no longer being used.

The Excluded Accounts Auditing page contains an expandable view of all the Excluded Accounts templates that have been defined. To add a new template to this list, use the Add tool bar button. Once added, the following information is provided for each Excluded Accounts template:

Template

Displays the name assigned to the template when it was created.

Status

Indicates whether the template is enabled or disabled. To enable/disable the template, place your cursor in this Status cell, click the arrow control and select the appropriate option from the drop-down menu.

Account

This field is used for filtering data.

Operations

If specified, displays the event classes and/or facilities specified on the first page of the wizard that are to be excluded for the account.

 

Click the expansion box to the left of the Template Name to expand this view and display the following details about the template:

Type

Displays the type of account (i.e., user, computer or group) selected for exclusion as specified on the second page of the wizard.

Account

Displays the name of the account selected for exclusion.

Display Name

If available, displays the display name assigned to the excluded accounts listed.