Splunk announced the availability of the Splunk App for Windows Server Active Directory.
The Splunk App for Active Directory helps enable organizations to avoid service outages and provides proactive management and compliance reporting of the Active Directory - all from one place.
Enterprise organizations understand that Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory is the foundation of an IT infrastructure. It is the central location for user configuration information, authentication requests, and information about all the computers that run the business. When issues occur in Active Directory, the impact is felt across the business - users are unable to login, access privileges expire, email stops flowing, and systems stall. The Splunk App for Active Directory is an easy-to-deploy, proactive solution that uncovers the data needed to diagnose the issue, fix its root cause, and restore service.
"The Splunk App for Active Directory makes it possible for administrators to avoid the problems of traditional tools that simply deliver health statistics, but miss reporting crucial compliance and auditing information," said Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates. "Identifying security breaches and ensuring corporate compliance goals are top concerns of organizations today. The app provides real-time operational health and performance data on the infrastructure, integrated auditing features that track activity from root domains to the individual objects in an Active Directory environment, and extensive change management reports that deliver views to changes in objects and policies templates, increasing uptime."
With the Splunk App for Active Directory users can:
* Monitor the Active Directory Forest for potential security breaches and non-compliant usage patterns.
* Audit changes to group policies, user, group, and computer objects in real time.
* View detailed topology statistics on all the objects within the Active Directory - top down from the Forest to individual user and computer accounts.
* Assess the operational health of Active Directory across site and domain boundaries.
"What makes the Splunk App for Active Directory so unique is the power it gives administrators who can now gain real-time operational intelligence on the entire Active Directory infrastructure," said Manish Kalra, Director of Product Marketing, Splunk. "Armed with deep insight from the data that is captured from security, system, and audit logs, performance monitors and active service monitors, Active Directory administrators are able to quickly pinpoint problems, identify security breaches, and ensure corporate compliance goals.
The Splunk App for Active Directory is available now from Splunkbase, the community site for Splunk apps.
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