| Centralized Management | | Centrally manage auditing on every file server from one console, with no reboots or interruption. This makes setup faster, provides single-point monitoring of the agent health, and reduces the effort required to establish auditing policies across multiple file servers. |
| Real-Time Monitoring |  | Unlike snapshot-based solutions, File System Auditor is implemented as a file system driver, ensuring it captures every event in the file system. Snapshot-based solutions only capture the sum of changes between snapshots, yielding unreliable reporting data and a lack of change detail. |
| Intelligent Auditing | | Native file system auditing can yield hundreds of thousands of audit entries to sort through. File System Auditor intelligently monitors file system activity and returns a single entry. Even something as complex as a move (which is comprised of a copy and a delete) shows as a single entry. |
| Centralized Storage | | All events are centrally stored in an SQL database. This allows organizations to not only maintain a secure audit trail, but answers to questions like “what files has Bob touched today” can be answered with enterprise coverage. |
| Simplified Reporting | | Auditing reports are quickly and easily built using 6 criteria: - Date/Time Range
- User(s)
- Event Type(s)
- Path(s)
- Process(es)
- Server(s)
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| Permission Change Auditing | Monitor any change to permissions on files and folders. An administrator can setup an alert via email to notify if a certain file or folder gets modified or permissions are changed. |
| Clustered Server Support | Clustered servers are automatically detected and treated as one for ease of auditing and reporting. |
| Real-Time and Scheduled Notification | | Report definitions can be saved and configured to be emailed when events occur, providing security staff with up-to-date information on file system activity. |
| Detailed Reporting | | Reports contain all information pertinent to the event including: event type, username, date/time, process, and file path involved. |
| Exportable Report Data | | Reports can be exported to the following formats: RTF, PDF, HTML, XLS, TIF, TXT and RDF. |
