Active Directory Reporting Tools
Having Active Directory Reporting Tools is very beneficial to System Administrators and for management. Some companies must be in compliance and must pass an audit every year. Being able to report on Active Directory will help in these types of situations. For a System Administrator it is crucial to know what is going on in your Active Directory infrastructure. Having a good set Active Directory Reporting Tools will give an administrator some insight to what is going on in your environment
Some examples of this would be; being able to report on failed logon attempts. You should create a baseline for failed logons to get an idea of how many failed attempts occur. Then you could run reports on a weekly or monthly basis to see if there were any hacking attempts.
Some other reasons to report on Active Directory
• Active Directory Password Reports
• Active Directory Computer Reports
• Active Directory Group Reports
• Active Directory Policy Reports
• Active Directory Replication Reports
• Active Directory DNS Reports
• Active Directory SYSVOL Replication
These are a few things you could run reports on in your Active Directory infrastructure. It’s important to have good Active Directory Reporting Tools to make sure the infrastructure is stable and in a healthy state. If you have a large infrastructure with several domain controllers it becomes a large task trying to dig through event logs or watching Active Directory for changes. There are a lot that goes on in Active Directory and no built in solution for reporting on Active Directory. Check out my Active Directory Software page for a list of Active Directory reporting tools.
