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Can SAM be used to monitor file folder access by remote applications or users?

dbuchholz

I have a request to monitor access requests to file folders on Windows servers.

I can not find any information if SAM can be used for this level of monitoring.

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jangliss

What are you monitoring it for? That the remote user/app can access the folder? I'm fairly sure there are templates that can be used to access a folder to see if it's reachable. Or are you trying to monitor for access from people that shouldn't be accessing it?

dbuchholz

The request is to monitor all access requests to a specific folder on the server, both approved and non-approved access requests.

jangliss

While you can enable auditing, and the information will be stored in the security log files, monitoring it with SAM will be a PITA. What triggers the failure conditions? What are you planning on doing with the information? How do you plan on aggregating the information? As SAM poles on a frequency, are you looking for the same user logging in repeatedly and failing? All of these are very hard questions to answer from SAM's perspective as far as I know.

This sounds like a perfect candidate for SolarWinds Log and Event Manger (LEM).

aLTeReGo

Agreed. Jonathan Angliss is on the right track. Log & Event Manager's File Integrity Monitoring capabilities are precisely what dbuchholz is looking for.