Re: Alerting on Failed Audits

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/25/05

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    Alerting or reporting, whch is it?
    Reporting is usually considered to be a batch mode result from
    an occassionally, and on demand, executed collector/digestor.
    Alerting is usually considered to be a real-time notification
    triggered by an event.

    You could set up alerting with WMI event subscriptions. Of
    course this means that you have coded up the consumer of the
    event notifications.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/monitoring_events.asp
    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/scriptguide/en-us/sas_wmi_kzcp.mspx

    For reporting one could use one of a number of security event
    log collectors, or use such as EventCombMT that lets you filter
    on events from the security logs of multiple DCs (as is needed
    in your case for lockout of domain accounts).
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308471
    http://www.microsoft.com/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/eventcombmt.asp
    and for info on use of EventCombMT relative to acct locks see
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824209

    Finally, check into the account lockout tools from MS for
    diag and troubleshooting of account lockouts.
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7af2e69c-91f3-4e63-8629-b999adde0b9e&DisplayLang=en
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d1a5ed1d-cd55-4829-a189-99515b0e90f7&DisplayLang=en
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c8e0d90-a13b-4977-a4fc-3e2b67e3748e&DisplayLang=en 

    -- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Ferdie" <ferdie@insane.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to get alerts or reports whenever my DC's get a Failure
Audit.
> My goal is to identify when and why user accounts get locked out, and if
> there is a hack attempt.
>
> Is there a way to gather the logs on my DC's and reports on the failures?
> I'm just looking for the easiest way for now, since we will be
implementing
> an environmental monitoring service later.
>
> Thanks,
> Ferdie
>
>
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