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Change Auditor - For Advanced Users 7.2 - Technical Insight Guide

Table of Contents

Change Auditor Services

Quest Change Auditor Coordinator Quest Change Auditor Workstation Agent Quest Change Auditor Agent Change Auditor for EMC

Change Auditor licensing processes

License check process Component licensing User counts

Component Start-up Considerations

Start up delays

Change Auditor network communications

Service Connection Points

CN=ChangeAuditor.Coordinator

Ports and protocols Network encryption

SMB protocol and share encryption Secure password storage Client to coordinator connection Agent to coordinator connection (version 6.x and 7.0.1) Agent to coordinator connection (version 7.0.2) Coordinator to SQL Server connection

Coordinator internal tasks

Forest topology collection Group expansion Alert processing License check Remote deployment Agent heartbeat check Refresh coordinator statistics Event aggregator SQL upgrade monitor Open handle Scheduled purge job Scheduled archive job Scheduled report job

Registry Settings

Force agent WCF port Force client port Force SDK port Use predefined GC for name resolution Allow collation switch Report zip limit SQL command timeout Enable ChangeAuditor Agent service to start with the Microsoft security update (KB2264107) Adjust memory dumps settings

Change Auditor built-in fault tolerance Change Auditor protection

Using multiple protection templates

How access rules are evaluated How scheduling and location works with denied access

Database Considerations

How to move the Change Auditor database and coordinator to another server How to estimate the required SQL server disk space How SQL Server Autogrow affects Change Auditor How to query an archive database

Account exclusions best practices

Group expansion

The group expansion scheduled task is for expanding nested membership of Active Directory groups that are referenced in searches (Who search criteria) or groups that are defined in the Member of Group feature. Group membership is recursively enumerated in order to determine nested group membership.

The refresh frequency can be configured using the Group Membership Expansion pane on the Coordinator Configuration page (Administration Tasks tab) of the client.

Alert processing

Change Auditor reports that have been alert enabled are run on a scheduled basis determined by the user selected alert priority. After all the reports have been processed for alerting, Change Auditor alert transport tasks (SMTP, SNMP and WMI) send the alerts.

To set the priority for an alert, use the Alert tab (one of the Search Properties tab) on the Searches page of the client.

License check

The coordinator service performs a valid license check once every 5 minutes, or during service startup. For more information on the license check process, see Change Auditor licensing processes.

Remote deployment

The coordinator remote deployment task periodically checks if there has been a user scheduled agent deployment or an automatic deployment. When agent installations, upgrades or uninstalls are required the remote deployment task remotely runs the job on the selected servers and workstations.

Automatic deployments for new domain objects are configured using the New Servers tool bar button on the Deployment page in the client.

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