Active Administrator 8.5 - Installation Guide

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Applying a license file Creating a passphrase Setting the Active Administrator database Setting the Active Administrator archive database Configuring purge and archive settings Storing Active Administrator data Setting up the email server Setting up features and the owner Configuring active template delegation enforcement Configuring group policy history Configuring Active Directory backups Configuring Active Administrator users Configuring service accounts Connecting to System Center Operations Manager and Enabling SNMP Notifications Reviewing selections

Installing Active Administrator console Setting up the console

Setting up auditing on domain controllers Installing audit agents Creating alerts

Setting up workstation logon auditing

Deploying the workstation logon audit agent Enabling the default port

Using Active Administrator

Appendix: Active Administrator Server Manager

Starting the Active Administrator Server Manager Active Administrator Foundation and Data Services

SQL Full-Text Search

Web Server Configuration Managing Security

Managing the passphrase Managing file security Managing database security Recovering from a lost passphrase

SQL Server requirements

The following versions of Microsoft® SQL Server® are supported. See the Microsoft web site for the hardware and software requirements for your version of SQL Server.


	IMPORTANT: You must have the credentials of an account that can be used to create a database on the server running SQL Server®.

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SQL Server 2012

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SQL Server 2012 Express

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SQL Server 2014

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SQL Server 2014 Express

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SQL Server 2016

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SQL Server 2017

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SQL Server 2019


	IMPORTANT: On the server running SQL Server, you must enable Named Pipes communication, which is off by default. Active Administrator requires the default collation for the audit database. In SQL Server, collation refers to a set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared. Active Administrator supports only the default collation and sort order configurations for the audit database. If you are unsure of the collation assigned to the audit database, use the Microsoft ISQL_w or Query Analyzer tools, connect to the database, enter sp_helpsort, and run the statement. The results list all sort and collation information for the database.

Console requirements

Topics:

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Console hardware requirements

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Console software requirements

Console hardware requirements

The following table outlines the console hardware requirements.

Table 3. Console hardware requirements

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Windows Server 2012 R2

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Windows Server 2016

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Windows Server 2019

NOTE: Active AdministratorActive Administrator® does not support Microsoft® Nano Server 2016.

NOTE: If you are using the Certificate module, see Table 4 for information on support for SHA-2 certificates.

The following table outlines the support for SHA-2 certificates.

Table 4. Support for SHA-2 certificates
Operating system	Support SHA-2 certificates	Verify SHA-2 certificates (user mode)	Verify SHA-2 certificates (kernel mode)
Windows Server 2012	supported	supported	supported
Windows Server 2012 R2	supported	supported	supported
Windows Server 2016	supported	supported	supported
Windows Server 2019	supported	supported	supported
Windows 8.1	supported	supported	supported
Windows 10	supported	supported	supported