On September 16th we got a session on Security Auditing & ACS Optimization by Jeremiah Beckett from Securevantage. Jeremiah has recorded the session for us so that you can watch it. It’s condensed into about 1/3 original time, 30min, but covers all content and includes demo. Jeremiah added also theire ACS Resource Kit...
Changing the Audit Collection Service DataRetention Period (based on the info found on the technet site) Operations Manager grooms, or removes, data from its various databases at regular configurable intervals. For the Operations database, this is done in the Operations console. For the ACS database, these settings are configured during setup with a default...
When you install ACS you will get a ton of events! Not all events are relevant for your environment. Securevantage has written a nice noisefilter guide. This guide introduces noise filters for Windows Servers 2000 & 2003 Security Events. Also interesting is the Secure Vantage Security Auditing Reference List: Over 1300 Windows security...
Audit Collection Services (ACS) reporting can be installed in two configurations. A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SRS) SP1 or SP2 instance with Operations Manager Reporting already installed. A benefit of this is the ability to view ACS Reports in the Operations Console. A SRS instance without Operations Manager Reporting installed. The installation...
I’m going to make some procedures for ACS. First I’m going to install the audit collection services, after that I’m going to deploy the ACS reporting and last but not least enable the acs forwarding on the agents. I’m going to use the info on the technet site as a basis. The ACS...
Join us for Security Auditing & ACS Optimization Learn how your organization can maximize their investment in System Center to support security and regulatory compliance auditing requirements using Operations Manager and the Audit Collection Service (ACS). This is a great opportunity to learn about the latest in partner solutions that extend ACS to provide...