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Change Auditor 7.5 - User Guide

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Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting

If you have enabled Defender auditing but you are not receiving any events, ensure that the required Domain Controllers have agents deployed to them. Defender events are recorded in the Active Directory subsystem.

Defender Searches/Reports

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Defender Searches/Reports

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Defender built-in searches
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Search results

Defender built-in searches

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Defender built-in searches

You can run built-in searches to retrieve Defender activity captured by deployed agents enabling you to retrieve valuable information from a variety of perspectives.

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NOTE: The terms ‘searches’ and ‘reports’ are used in conjunction to acquire the desired output. You run a ‘search’ and the results returned are referred to as a ‘report’.

To see a complete list of built-in reports, see the Change Auditor Built-in Reports Reference Guide.

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To run a built-in search:
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Click on the Searches tab or select View | Searches.
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Expand and select the appropriate folder in the explorer view (left pane) to display the list of search definitions stored in the selected folder. For example, selecting the Shared | Built-in | Defender will display all the built-in searches available for Defender.
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In the right-hand pane, locate the search to be run and use one of the following methods to run the selected search:
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Double-click a search definition
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Right-click a search definition and select Run.
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Select the search definition and click Run.
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A new Search Results Page will be displayed populated with the audited events that met the search criteria defined in the selected search definition.
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NOTE: To modify a built-in search, see the Change Auditor User Guide.

Search results

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Search results

The Defender event information (including key information like who, what, when, where, why, and the event origin information) can be viewed on the Event Details pane in the client. The following table provides a description of the event details provided for Defender events.

 

Table 1. Event Details pane: Defender events

ChangeAuditor

Description

Severity

Displays “Low”, “Medium”, or “High” depending on the event.

Who

Specifies the name of the user who initiated the change.

When

Specifies the date and time when the change occurred.

Where

Displays the name of the workstation where the change occurred.

Source

Displays ‘Change Auditor’ which is the application from which the event was retrieved.

Origin

Displays the NetBIOS name and IP address of the workstation from which the event was generated.

What

Displays a description of the activity that occurred.

NOTE: For lengthy descriptions, hover your cursor over the description field to view the entire event description.

Facility

Displays that it is Defender activity.

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