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Change Auditor 7.5 - User Guide

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Change Auditor dialogs
Quest Change Auditor dialog Add Administrator Add Agents, Domains, Sites dialog Add Container dialog Add Active Directory Container dialog (AD Query) Add Facilities or Event Classes dialog Add Facilities or Event Classes dialog (Add With Events) Add File System Path dialog Add Foreign Forest Credential Add Group Policy Container dialog Add Local Account dialog Add Logons dialog Add Logons dialog (Add With Events) Add Object Classes dialog Add Object Classes dialog (Add With Events) Add Origin dialog Add Origin dialog (Add With Events) Add Registry Key dialog Add Results dialog Add Service dialog Add Service dialog (Add With Events) Add Severities dialog Add Severities dialog (Add With Events) Add SharePoint Path dialog Add SQL Instance dialog Add SQL Data Level Object Add Users, Computers or Groups dialog Add Where dialog Add Who dialog Advanced Deployment Options dialog Agent Assignment dialog Alert Body Configuration dialog Alert Custom Email dialog Auditing and Protection Templates dialog Authorizations: Application Group dialog Authorizations: Operations | Role Definitions | Task Definitions | Application Group Authorizations: Role dialog Authorizations: Task dialog Auto Deploy to New Servers in Forest dialog Browse for Folder dialog Browse SharePoint dialog Comments dialog Configuration Setup dialog Configure cepp.conf Auditing dialog Connection screen Coordinator Configuration tool Coordinator Credentials Required dialog Credentials Required dialog Custom Filter dialog Database Credentials Required dialog Directory object picker Domain Credentials dialog Eligible Change Auditor Agents dialog Event Logging dialog Export/Import dialog Install or Upgrade/Uninstall/Update Foreign Agent Credentials IP Address dialog Log page Logon Credentials dialog (Deployment page) Logon Credentials dialog (EMC Auditing wizard) Manage Connection Profiles dialog New Report Layout dialog Microsoft 365 dialog Rename dialog Save As dialog Select a SQL Instance and Database dialog Select Destination Folder dialog Select Exchange Users dialog Select Registry Key dialog Select SQL Reporting Services Template dialog Shared Mailboxes dialog SharePoint Credentials Required dialog When dialog
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IP Address dialog

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IP Address dialog

When using the Audited ADAM (AD LDS) Object wizard and/or accessing the ADAM (AD LDS) Attribute Auditing page, if the selected ADAM (AD LDS) instance belongs to a workgroup server and the Change Auditor client cannot resolve the NetBIOS name, this dialog appears prompting you to enter the IP address of the workgroup server.

If credentials are needed in order to connect to the selected ADAM (AD LDS) instance, the Credentials Required dialog will be displayed prompting you to enter the appropriate credentials.

Log page

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Log page

A new Log page is created whenever the View Agent Log command is selected and displays the event details recorded in the trace log for the selected agent.

Two new Log pages are created whenever the View Coordinator Log command is selected. These log pages contain the event details that were recorded in each of these trace logs for the selected coordinator:

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Service: CA4xCompat.dll.nptlog - this log includes the messages logged during agent to coordinator communications.
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Service: ChangeAuditor.Service.exe.nptlog - this log includes the messages logged during client to coordinator communications.

The data grid and event details pane on this page contains the following information for each log entry. To display different fields, click the Field Chooser button located to the far left of the column headings.

File

Specifies the name of the source file that logged the message.

Displayed by default: No

Function

Displays the name of the function that logged the message.

Displayed by default: No

ID

Displays the event ID used to identify the event.

Displayed by default: No

Level

Indicates the severity of the event message:

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Info - ‘For your information’; does not require attention
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Error - events that indicate a problem has occurred; requires attention
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Warning - events that warn of potential problems; does not require immediate attention

Displayed by default: Yes

Line

Specifies the line within the source file that logged the message.

Displayed by default: No

Logger

Specifies the logger used to log events.

Displayed by default: No

Message

Displays the event message that was posted to the log.

Displayed by default: Yes

Thread

Specifies the thread within the source file that logged the message.

Displayed by default: No

Timestamp

Displays the date and time when the entry was posted to the log.

Displayed by default: Yes

Use the tool bar buttons at the top of the log page to scroll through the log and search for log entries.

Refresh

Use to refresh and reload the log entries from the source file.

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NOTE: Not available when the log page is launched using the View Coordinator Log or View Agent Log command.

Copy

Use to copy the selected content to the clip board. Use with the Select All button to copy and paste the contents of the entire log into another application.

Select All

Use to select the entire contents of the log. Use with the Copy button to copy and paste the contents of the log into another application.

Find

Enter a specific string of characters or word to be located in the log and click the Find button to locate the text.

Use the Show Matched Entries Only button to display only the entries that match the word/string of characters entered in the search text.

Match Case

Use to locate entries that match the case as it was entered in the search text.

Previous

Use to move to the previous entry that contains the search text.

Next

Use to move to the next entry that contains the search text.

Print

Use one of the Print options to print or save the contents of the log.

Logon Credentials dialog (Deployment page)

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Logon Credentials dialog (Deployment page)

This credentials required dialog appears when the Set button at the bottom of the Domain Credentials dialog is clicked. Enter the credentials of a user with administrative rights on the selected domain.

User

Enter the user name of an account with Administrative rights on the domain selected on the Domain Credentials dialog.

When using a group Managed Service Account:

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The account must end with '$' and the password must be blank.
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The domain should be entered in the Fully Qualified Domain Name format.
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The local Administrator group must be added to the group policy debug programs. (Found under Local Computer Policy | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | User Rights Assignments | Debug programs.)
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The Windows client must be run as the administrator. (Right-click and select Run as administrator.)
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The agent host must be correctly configured to successfully retrieve the managed password for the specified group Managed Service Account.
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The Coordinator Credential Configurator must be run as the administrator. (Right-click and select Run as administrator.)
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For manual installations, the agent installer must be run as the administrator. (Right-click and select Run as administrator.)
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For foreign domain agent deployments, the account name for the agent to connect to the coordinator should be specified with the Fully Qualified Domain Name (For example: domain.com\user.)
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For foreign domain agent deployments, a trust relationship with the foreign domain and the coordinator's domain is required.

Password/Verify

Enter the password associated with the user name entered above.

Domain

Displays the name of the domain selected on the Domain Credentials dialog.

Logon Credentials dialog (EMC Auditing wizard)

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Logon Credentials dialog (EMC Auditing wizard)

This dialog appears when the Set Credentials button on the EMC Auditing wizard is clicked or when you chose to update the cepp.conf file on the EMC Control Station. Enter the credentials of a user with administrative rights on the selected EMC Control Station.

Control Station

Enter the IP address of the EMC Control Station.

User

Enter the user name of an account with Administrative rights (rights to create or modify the cepp.conf file) on the selected EMC Control Station.

Password

Enter the password associated with the user account entered above.

Data Mover

Select the data mover that hosts the CIFS file server specified on the first page of the wizard.

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