Netwrix Change Reporter for SCVMM Competitive Checklist
System Center VMM Auditing Solution Competitive Checklist
NetwrixAuditor / Product A / Product B / Product C
Audit Detail
Reliable audit data. AuditAssurance™ technology pre-filters and consolidates audit data from multiple sources including Windows Event Logs and VM manager logs to get a single change record for each change to provide the most reliable audit data without any gaps. / YES
4 Ws. Captures all changes to SCVMM including WHO made the change, WHAT was changed, WHEN it was changed (date and time), WHERE the change was made for example, who stopped a virtual machine, when and on what host. / YES
Before/after values. Performs side-by-side comparison showing BEFORE and AFTER values for all modified VM configurations and settings where applicable for example an Ethernet address change shows the old and new address. / YES
Leverages Native Auditing. Multiple sources of available information are used to augment the overall quality and integrity of change information without generating large volumes of audit data. / YES
Protects against event log overwrites and frequent data collection using native Windows auto-backup feature on logs. / YES
ARCHIVING AND REPORTING
Human-readable detail. Reports are easy to understand and read with understandable descriptions such as “Virtual Machine Changed” / YES
Long-Term Archiving. Stores information for any period of time. / YES
Reports by e-mail. Provides daily email summary of all recent changes, sent by e-mail automatically every night to specified recipients. / YES
Reporting from any period of time. Can e-mail reports from any time range specified. / YES
Purpose-built module for SCVMM auditing: adds human-readable formatting, not just generic raw audit data to output. / YES
Prior Configurations. Audits SCVMM configurations prior to software installation and use. / YES
DATA COLLECTION ARCHITECTURE
No performance impact. Data-collection does not consume server resources when not in use. No agents used to gather data. / YES
MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
Simple and easy to use interface. / YES
INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND PLATFORM SUPPORT
Easy to install and configure. / YES
Can be installed with little or no vendor assistance. / YES
Does not require services engagement to fully implement. / YES
Supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of SCVMM. / YES
Supports all versions of SCVMM: 2008 and 2008 R2. (2010 Coming Soon) / YES
Easily scalable for large enterprise environments. / YES
License expense can be credited towards additional solutions for auditing of other systems and applications (e.g. Active Directory, servers, SharePoint etc) thus protecting existing investments and eliminating the need to support solutions from different vendors. / YES
SCOPE OF AUDITED OBJECTS AND SETTING CHANGES
Virtual Machine Refresh information / YES
Add/Remove Virtual Machines / YES
Host Group Changes / YES
Boot Setting Changes / YES
Checkpoint Changes / YES
Ethernet Address Changes / YES
Pool Changes / YES
Location Changes / YES
Owner Changes / YES
State Changes / YES
Description Changes / YES
Computer Name Changes / YES
Processor Count Changes / YES
Memory Changes / YES
Virtual Hardware Changes / YES
Host Changes / YES
Library Changes / YES