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Change Auditor 7.2 - User Guide

Change Auditor Overview Agent Deployment Change Auditor Client Overview Overview Page Searches Search Results and Event Details Custom Searches and Search Properties Enable Alert Notifications Administration Tasks Agent Configurations Coordinator Configuration Purging and Archiving your Change Auditor Database Disable Private Alerts and Reports Generate and Schedule Reports SQL Reporting Services Configuration Change Auditor User Interface Authorization Client Authentication Certificate authentication for client coordinator communication Integrating with On Demand Audit Enable/Disable Event Auditing Account Exclusion Registry Auditing Service Auditing Agent Statistics and Logs Coordinator Statistics and Logs Change Auditor Commands Change Auditor Email Tags

Configure email alert notifications/reports

To dispatch configuration change alerts or reports through email (SMTP), you must enable email notification on the Coordinator Configuration page.

For alerts, you can override the reply to, alert subject, signature and body content for individual search queries using the settings on the Alert tab (Search Properties tabs).

For reports, you can override the reply to address for individual search queries using the Report tab (Search Properties tabs).

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Open the Administration Tasks page and click Configuration at the bottom of the navigation pane (left pane).
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Select Coordinator in the Configuration task list to open the Coordinator Configuration page.
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On the SMTP Configuration pane, select Enable SMTP for Alerts and Reporting to enable email alert notifications and reporting. Checking this option will activate the remaining fields on this page to define the mail server to be used.
NOTE: Use the browse button to the right of the From Address field to launch the Select Active Directory Object dialog (Directory object picker) or Select Exchange User dialog.

From the Select Active Directory Object dialog, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select a user.

If the Exchange Host information is entered at the bottom of the SMTP Configuration pane, the Select Exchange Users dialog appears. On the Exchange tab, enter a name or partial name, at least three characters long, in the Find field and click Search to lookup and select an Exchange user. On the Active Directory tab, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select an Active Directory user.

NOTE: Use the button to the right of the Reply To field to launch the Select Active Directory Object dialog (Directory object picker) or Select Exchange User dialog.

From the Select Active Directory Object dialog, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select a user.

If the Exchange Host information is entered at the bottom of the SMTP Configuration pane, the Select Exchange Users dialog appears. On the Exchange tab, enter a string at least three characters long in the Find field and click Search to lookup and select an Exchange user. On the Active Directory tab, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select an Active Directory user.

NOTE: Use the button to the right of the Alert Subject field to insert a variable into the subject line or to reset it back to the default content.
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Optionally, click Configure Body to define the content of the main body, the event details and the signature to be included in your alert emails. After configuring the alert body, click OK to return to the Coordinator Configuration page.
NOTE: The Alert Body Configuration settings do not apply to email reports. To define the content (columns) to be included in a report, use the Layout tab. In addition, you can use the Report Layouts page (Administration Tasks tab) to create customized report layout template(s) defining the header and footer information to be used in your reports.
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If the specified mail server requires authentication, select the My Server Requires Authentication check box and enter the account credentials to be used.
NOTE: Use the button to the right of the Account Name field to launch the Select Active Directory Object dialog (Directory object picker). From this dialog, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select a user.
Exchange Host: Enter the internet host name of your Exchange mail server. Use the field to the far right of the Exchange Host field to specify the Exchange version for your Exchange host.
Email: Enter your full email address.
My Host Requires Authentication: Select this check box if the Exchange host requires authentication and enter the Account Name and Password used to log into your email account.
NOTE: Use the button to the right of the Account Name field to launch the Select Active Directory Object dialog (Directory object picker). From this dialog, use the Browse or Search page to locate and select a user.
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Click Test SMTP to test the mail server configuration.
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Once the mail server configuration is verified, click Apply Changes to save the configuration.

Customize alert email content

In addition to the customizable fields (Reply To, Alert Subject and Signature) on the Coordinator Configuration dialog, you can use the Configure Body button to define the content to be used in the main body of your alert emails as well as the event details to be included.

NOTE: The Alert Body Configuration settings do not apply to email reports. To define the content (columns) to be included in a report, use the Layout tab. In addition, you can use the Report Layouts page (Administration Tasks tab) to create customized report layout templates defining the header and footer information to be used in your reports.
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Click Configure Body to display the Alert Body Configuration dialog.
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Select the appropriate option (at the bottom of the dialog) to edit either the Plain Text (default) or the HTML representation of the alert emails.
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Use the Main Body tab to enter the text to be included and define the overall layout of the alert body.
Select the Show Variables check box to display the variables that can be added to the main body of your email.
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Use the Event Details tab to specify the event details to be included. That is, you can rearrange the entries, remove entries, or modify text, etc.
Select the Show Variables check box to display a list of the variable that can be added to the event details of your alert email.
NOTE: Do NOT modify the blue text surrounded by percent signs (e.g., %USERNAME%). These are tags which represent actual data retrieved from the Change Auditor event that triggered the alert. See Change Auditor Email Tags for more information on these tags and the data retrieved by each.
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Use the Signature tab to define the content of the signature line to be used in alert emails.
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Once defined, click OK to save your settings and close the Alert Body Configuration dialog.
NOTE: Click Restore to Default to revert back to the default email content and format.

Shared Folder Configuration

To allow users to send reports to a shared folder, you must specify credentials to use to write reports and a default shared folder.

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Select Coordinator in the Configuration task list to open the Coordinator Configuration page.
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Under Shared Folder Configuration, select Enable Shared Folder for Reporting. Checking this option will activate the remaining fields on this page to define the account credentials and folder to use.
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Select a shared folder to use as the default when users select to enable reporting for a search. Select Test access to ensure that the folder exists and the specified account has permissions to write to it.

Group Membership Expansion

The middle pane of the Coordinator Configuration page contains options which allow you to define the schedule 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 will be recursively enumerated in order to determine nested group membership.

Use the following options to define group membership expansion behavior:

Select one of the following options to define how you want to expand groups:

Expand all groups - This expands all groups in the forest. Use this only if you are using SSIS and need the freedom to make requests for any group in the forest.
Expand groups that are referenced in existing queries - Change Auditor must expand all groups in queries in order to get their membership. With the membership, the events for the groups can be retrieved. This is always done and cannot be disabled.
Expand groups that are referenced in existing queries and selected groups (default) - In addition to the groups referenced in existing queries, you have the ability to select other groups. This would be useful when you have groups that need expansion for SSIS database requests, but you do not want to burden your production system with expanding all groups in the environment.

Group Membership Expansion list

The Group Membership Expansion list box is only available when the Expand groups that are referenced in existing queries and selected groups option is selected and displays a list of the groups to be expanded. Use Add to add groups to this list box and Remove to remove groups from the list box.

Add

Use to add groups to the group membership expansion list. Clicking this button will display the Select Active Directory Objects dialog allowing you to locate and select the groups to be added.

See Directory object picker for a description of the Browse, Search and Options pages. Note that the Find field on this dialog will display Group and cannot be changed.

Remove

Use to remove the selected group from the group membership expansion list.

Select from the following options to define how often you want to refresh the group membership expansion list.

Refresh group membership every nnn minutes

By default, group membership will be refreshed every 360 minutes. Use the arrow controls to increase or decrease this value.

Valid range: 10 - 43200

Number of groups to expand every 5-minute cycle

By default, 20 groups will be expanded every 5-minute cycle. Use the arrow controls to increase or decrease this value

Valid range: 1 - 100000

Refresh the list of expanded groups every nnn minutes

By default, the group membership expansion list is refreshed every 180 minutes. Use the arrow controls to increase or decrease this value.

Valid range: 10 - 43200

Defaults

Use to reset the fresh frequency settings back to the factory defaults.

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