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Change Auditor 7.5 - User Guide

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Change Auditor agent performance

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Change Auditor agent performance

Performance is directly linked to the CPU speed and network latency of the server hosting the Change Auditor agent collecting the EMC events.

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Hardware considerations
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Load balancing

Hardware considerations

To improve agent performance, you can:

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Upgrade the link between the EMC file server and the Change Auditor agent to decrease network latency.
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Add extra CPUs to the current agent or select a more powerful agent host with more CPUs or CPU cores available.

See System overview for more information.

Load balancing

You can also improve performance by assigning an EMC Auditing template to more than one agent. When multiple agents are assigned to the same EMC Auditing template, events will be load balanced and events will be sent to each agent round-robin style.

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TIP: Quest recommends that you specify no more than two agents; however, you can specify more than two agents if you find the need. The downside to assigning multiple agents to the same EMC Auditing template is that the ‘where’ field for EMC events may contain any one of these agents. In addition, if EMC event logging is enabled in Change Auditor, events will be written on multiple agent servers.

Configuring audit scope

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Configuring audit scope

Audit only volumes, extensions and operations that are vital for your environment.

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NOTE: Configuring the auditing scope to audit only critical files/folders is recommended because this filtering controls the traffic between the coordinator and agent. However, changes to the auditing scope as described below will have no impact on the traffic between EMC and the agents.

Use the EMC Auditing template to specify the auditing scope for EMC events. For example, using the EMC Auditing template you can:

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Decrease the number of volumes being audited
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Set the Audit Path to File, Folder or Volume and enter the file, folder or volume to be audited.
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To specify a file, enter: <ShareName>\<FolderName>\<FileName.ext>
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To specify a folder, enter: <ShareName>\<FolderName>
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To specify a volume, enter: <VolumeName>
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Decrease the number of file extensions being audited
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Use the Inclusions tab to specify individual subfolders or files to be included for auditing.
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Use the Exclusions tab to exclude individual subfolders or files from auditing.
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NOTE: On both the Inclusions and Exclusions tabs, you can specify a group of files or subfolders using wildcard characters. That is, use an asterisk (*) to substitute zero or more characters or use a question mark (?) to substitute a single character.

See File/Folder Inclusion and Exclusion Examples for more information and examples.

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Decrease the number of operations being audited
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Use the Events tab to select only vital file and/or folder events.

EMC Events

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EMC Events

The following events can be selected for auditing from the Events tab on the EMC Auditing wizard. The events listed on the Events tab is based on the file/folder specified in the Audit Path and the coverage specified in the Scope cell.

File events
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EMC File access rights changed (no from-value)
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EMC File contents written
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EMC File created
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EMC File deleted
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EMC File moved
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EMC File opened (Only available when the Audit Path is File)
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EMC File ownership changed (no from-value)
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EMC File renamed
 
Folder events
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EMC Folder access rights changed (no from-value)
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EMC Folder created
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EMC Folder deleted
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EMC Folder moved
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EMC Folder ownership changed (no from-value)
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EMC Folder renamed
 

 

File/Folder Inclusion and Exclusion Examples

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File/Folder Inclusion and Exclusion Examples

This section provides sample entries for the Inclusions and Exclusions tabs on the auditing wizard. It does not list every combination available, but provides a variety of examples to help you understand how to use the wildcard characters allowed on these two tabs.

The Inclusions and Exclusions tabs only appear when the Folder, Volume or All Volumes option is selected in the Audit Path field and the Scope includes child objects. Use these two tabs as described below:

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Inclusions tab - enter a file mask to specify what is to be audited.
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Exclusions tab - optionally enter a file mask (or path) to specify subfolders and files in the selected audit path that are to be excluded from auditing.
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