paulow19782

I have been looking at the Cloud and its progress in terms of companies migrating over to it for the last 5 years. I have worked in various places including as a Virtualisation consultant (doing the planning and migrating), Microsoft Exchange server upgrades, AD migrations etc etc. I now work as an IT manager and recently…

also just to confirm, it does not register the source machine either. So, if I connect from another server, the source machine is still the file server. I GET that its good to know if files are changing on a machine I dont get what the point is if you cannot see the source of who is making those changes. Surely that is…

ok thanks but installing the FIM agent on the local server does not help. The users are not recorded in the logs just nt\authority IF they access the server via a file share. example: Server01 has a D:\ with a folder called "Files" FIM Agent installed on Server01 and set up in SEM. "Files" is a share accessible over the…

Also i think this link is what npatterson was referring to: Enable Windows file auditing for use with SEM (solarwinds.com) which doesnt utilise FIM.

yes, that's exactly what I have done. I have also created a filter on the live events view to see who accesses the paths I am monitoring. The only time it ever comes up with the user is when I am logged into the server as an administrator and open the folder. If a user connects to the same folder via the network share it…

I am having the same issue as the OP. I dont understand why FIM even exists if you cannot tell who is opening the files. So, just to clarify, you are saying that to actually see who is accessing the files you need to not use FIM and configure object auditing in group policy and then set up the auditing on the files you…

Hi, thanks for your help! If I go to that URL in chrome/ie on any pc it does not get a response. is the URL correct? just checking! thanks, Paul

Hi, Yes that works.really stange! thanks, Paul

Unfortunately, I cannot add the vcenter server in either. its very strange. I have been attempting to find a log on either the ESXi server or the solarwinds server that will give me more info. All I get is : Test Failed. Cannot login with selected vCenter or ESX credential I have even tried creating new users and assigning…

Hi Mark, thanks for your reply! at least i know its my set up now! I have not edited the snmp.xml I simply ran some commandline configs I found online here but maybe they dont do the same thing....http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/vsphere-5-5-enable-snmp will check now!

I think I must be missing something in my understanding on how these filters work... I have read through the documentation and watched the solarwinds SEM video on creating filters but still to no avail. I was able to create a custom filter for the firewall and that worked but not sure why it worked compared to my other…