Re: Looking for the softwares to monitor our file server

[Terry Lowery <tlowery () swiftsystems com>]

If you enable object access auditing and set the auditing on the folders 
you need to audit you can use event viewer to audit these events.
Here is a link on setting it up under Windows 2000 (basically the same 
thing as 2003 ).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/13w2kadc.mspx

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Truong duc Luong wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a network manager at smal-size company. We've one file server
> using Windows 2003 server. I'm only using Event Viewer to log all
> operation with the file server. Recently, some important data in the
> file server have been deleted.  So, I can't detect when does this
> operation occurs? And Who do this?
> To improve the logging capability, i googled and found this software:
> Alfa File Monitor (http://www.alfasp.com/products.html). It meets with
> our requirement, but very expensive (1.999 EUR).
> Do you know any software like Alfa File Monitor (with less price) ?
> The software can answer quetions:
> - Who does delete, modify the file server?
> - When does this occurs?
>
> Many thanks,


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