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StealthAUDIT, the system auditing workhorse from
STEALTHbits Technologies, empowers administrators to collect and
assess Infrastructure Intelligence from thousands of computers
within the enterprise.
StealthAUDIT significantly reduces the cost of
system administration, and delivers immediate ROI, by using a
simple 4- step approach to Change Management:
DISCOVER - Determine what's out there
AUDIT
- Assess specific configurations
STABILIZE - Move to uniform configurations
LOCK
DOWN - Notify when settings change
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Through the use of innovative "Touchless"
Technology, StealthAUDIT collects the information needed - at
blazing speeds - from thousands of nodes. No longer will
organizations have to remotely connect to each server or
workstation to determine installed security patches, hot fixes,
service packs, etc.
StealthAUDIT helps with rolling out new
applications, preparing for migrations, performing audits,
identifying security exposures, and implementing standardized
enterprise-wide system configurations. StealthAUDIT is also an
essential tool for achieving optimal infrastructure performance
from an organization's Windows Servers including Windows 2000/2003
Active Directory Servers, Windows NT Domain Controllers, Exchange
Servers, SQL Servers, RAS Servers, File and Print Servers, as well
as workstations.
In addition, StealthAUDIT provides comprehensive
reporting of configuration and change management information,
quickly and easily. StealthAUDIT is a must for every MS
administrator's toolbox!
Features
Installs quickly and is running in less than 10
minutes. Users typically see their first set of data within
minutes.
- Supports
both immediate auditing and unattended (scheduled) auditing.
- Simple
job-based configuration. Define jobs that identify which machines
to audit and what data to collect.
- Flexible
target host scope. Jobs can be defined to collect data from a
pre-set host list, a host list identified by a file, or to auto-
discover hosts within Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003, and/or Windows
XP domains via Windows Network Neighborhood queries, Active
Directory queries, or IP network scans.
- Flexible
data scope. Define the specific data that a job will collect, by
picking from a library of pre- defined data collection tasks, or by
creating new ones.
- Flexible
data views. Data can easily be grouped, arranged, and sorted in a
spreadsheet style grid.
- Includes
a library of over 100 pre-defined audit tasks such as installed hot
fixes, IIS security patches, Microsoft Exchange versions, installed
services, installed applications, service settings, and much more.
- Library
management allows users to define, maintain, and share their own
unique set of tasks with colleagues to help promote repeated use of
best practices.
- Supports
complex auditing. Using the power of Microsoft Visual Basic
Scripting and SQL Scripting, users can write custom scripts to
perform complex auditing tasks and unique data manipulation.
- Change
Detection. Administrators can be notified by E-mail whenever
audited settings change; for example, if someone alters the logon
ID of a service.
- Adaptive
auditing technology. Snap-in data collectors and storage providers
enable the product to grow with an organization's needs.
- XML Core
ensures an open, highly flexible, and adaptive structure for job
properties and underlying data.
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Touchless technology with no agents or management servers to
deploy.
Key Benefits
- Improve
security. StealthAUDIT can protect your company's security by
identifying service packs, hotfixes. Administrators can quickly
close security holes, enforce standards and implement security
policies across the enterprise.
- Boost
network manageability and control. Strengthen network control and
lower costs through analysis and reporting of directory and
resource information. Use gathered data to build highly focused
internal knowledge bases to implement, encourage, and support the
use of best practices.
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Touchless Technology works where agent based technology falls
apart. Organizations are often in a constant state of
consolidation, mergers, acquisition, and restructuring.
StealthAUDIT, with its standard and custom reports, gives you the
ability to understand your changing infrastructure and saves you
time during organizational flux. With big changes and mixed
ownerships, agent based technology quickly becomes part of the
system management problem - adding to the burden instead of
relieving it! StealthAUDIT is immune to such issues.
- Manage
change. Discover - in detail - specific changes to your
environment, such as the addition of rogue servers, banned
services, or new users. StealthAUDIT gives you the ability to
quickly discover and resolve security exposures. Studies show that
42% of downtime is induced by human error and 80% of human
error-induced downtime happens during implementation of changes.
- Minimize
the impact of disaster recovery. Maintain accurate, up-to-date
documentation of your environment. Then, use this harvested
configuration data to facilitate efficient reinstallation of
systems.
- Prepare
and plan for Migration to Windows 2000 & 2003. During Active
Directory planning stages, use StealthAUDIT to analyze existing
directories, domains, and resources, to perform pre- migration
clean up.
- Exploit
powerful ad hoc queries. StealthAUDIT's Touchless Technology
operates in a dynamic and 'live' paradigm - collecting real data in
real time. Unlike other rigid, top-heavy auditing and management
tools, StealthAUDIT's interface is so extensible and easy to use,
it actually makes exploring your infrastructure fun. As you
explore, you'll uncover potential issues of which you were
completely unaware (eg. a particular event log entry). Then, with
just a few clicks, turn your exploration into an enterprise-wide
audit instantly quantifying the extent of the problem.
- Enforce
corporate standards. Monitor your delegated Admin staff -
sometimes, expediency will be chosen over best practice. Also, even
planned updates can inadvertently cause system regression. Use
StealthAUDIT to ensure that lock- downs stick.
- Manage
software licensing. Minimize the risk of litigation by monitoring
non-authorized field installation of excess licenses and rogue
applications, etc. Use StealthAUDIT to scan the enterprise, to
produce control documents, and to expose legitimate need for
license upgrades.
- Regain
unproductive Sys Admin time. Why use separate tools to gather
information such as backup status (success/fail), RAS server
connection log entries, and application settings for ongoing
checks? Instead, use StealthAUDIT to interrogate any number of
systems for that same type of data, all at once. Then, allow
StealthAUDIT to consolidate this information into a single, concise
report of exceptions so that your Admin time is spent on real
problems.
- Save
money. Today's economic climate mandates you to help minimize your
organization's capital spending and maximize its resource
utilization. StealthAUDIT helps you in tracking and analyzing your
company's hardware and software inventory.
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