Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) from CA Technologies reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.
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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Score 9.2 out of 10
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ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring,
user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant. Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups,
computers, GPOs, and OUs. Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with a single, correlated view of all
the activities happening across both on-premises AD and Azure AD. Monitor every user's logon and logoff activity, including…
$595
per year
Pricing
CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$595
per year
Professional
$945
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Pricing is dependent on the number of domain controllers and starts at $595/year for the Standard edition, and $945/year for the Professional edition.
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CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Features
CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
6.0
Ratings
25% below category average
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Automated alerts and notifications
6.00 Ratings
7.10 Ratings
Remote monitoring
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6.60 Ratings
Network device monitoring
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4.30 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring
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8.60 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring
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8.50 Ratings
Management Tasks
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CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
6.0
Ratings
21% below category average
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
Patch Management
5.00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Service configuration management
8.00 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory
5.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Policy-based automation
00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Reporting
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CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
5.5
Ratings
32% below category average
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
8.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Performance data reports
5.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Customizable reporting
7.00 Ratings
7.50 Ratings
Data visualization
5.00 Ratings
8.40 Ratings
Risk analysis
5.00 Ratings
8.40 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
2.0
Ratings
103% below category average
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
6.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Antivirus and malware management
2.00 Ratings
6.00 Ratings
Data backup and recovery
00 Ratings
5.00 Ratings
Administrator access control
00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
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CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
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It's a decent system if you're a pure IT shop and want to become ITIL-aligned. It forces everyone into an ITIL mentality - service level agreements, change management, and asset tracking. It's very rote, for better and for worse. It's not appropriate at all as a customer-facing or non-IT facing self-service tool. You will never get your end users to really understand how to use the interface.
ManageEngine is mostly a "check the box" solution for SIEM systems. We needed something that satisfied our customer and was cost-effective. I would highly rate the system on "worth what paid for". Support is eager to please and prompt. My only issue is that it's mostly based outside the US with helpful, but non-native speakers so it's hard to understand them. I wish they would spring for better help "phone lines" so I'm not dealing with difficult to understand and unclear speakers.
Logons - reports are very clean and concise and accurate
Account Lockouts - very challenging to do without ManageEngine ADAudit Plus. The tool allows us to easily locate the device or, at the very least, point us in the right direction!
AD change management - IT admins should consider this a necessity, and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus facilitates this seamlessly
In earlier releases there were quite a few bugs and performance issues. These have since been resolved.
When integrated with the Log360 Suite, it can be confusing on whether EventLog Analyzer or ADAudit Plus are "managing"/"Ingesting" the data from a given endpoint.
It works great for everything we need and use. Any issues in the software are pretty easy to resolve with tech support. And they are very responsive to resolving issues. Even ones where a fix/patch are required. At present, the software does everything we need it to for compliance, audit, and account review.
ADAudit with its cloud and on prem install option allows any organization to get in on AD report management. Whether you need to report internally only for for external audit controls its a great tool with flexibility to handle most any user or group report capability. Since this also includes m365 integration it enables IT pros to administer usage, license, cost control and permission access to most anything in Microsoft's portfolio. Its a great tool all around for AD integrated access needs.
We have to hire 2 full-time 3rd-party consultants to run this application. That tells me it's not a very IT-friendly, vendor-supported application. Compare that with, say, SolarWinds, which is much easier for regular IT staff to customize without sacrificing features and capability. Sure, we have to bring in Loop1 to consult for us when we need to do a major SolarWinds config change or need a really unusual custom query built, but we never need more than 10 hours of consulting per month.
The attention to cases or situations with the tool has been exceptional. being able to count on the manufacturer either by mail, call or chat. generate cases directly from the application allows you to have personalized support in order to solve problems that has been able to appear.
The remote setup team helped when i needed it and setup weas very straight forward and easy. The advanced setup for an external db and customizations for our latest version AD environment went pretty easy once they found documentation on customization.
I did not select CA. If it were up to me, I would migrate us to ServiceNow. The user interface on ServiceNow is 100% more modern and 200% more user friendly. With ServiceNow, the front page for end users makes it clear: one button that says "Ask for something" and one button that says "Report a problem". That's what our end users need. The biggest problem we have in our organization is that our end users don't report issues to the Help Desk often enough and rarely ask for things through the Help Desk. A clean, simple self-service option like this would open up a world of new information for our customer service team.
In terms of features, ADAudit Plus offers a comprehensive set of features for monitoring and auditing Active Directory, including real-time alerts, detailed reports, and user behavior analytics. The platform also offers support for multiple platforms, including Windows, UNIX, and Linux, as well as integration with other ManageEngine tools.
It was integral during our large IT consolidation 10 years ago in merging 10 different IT departments into one by converging on one ticketing system for all IT issues.
Its lack of user-friendliness has gated us from being able to deploy a true self-service IT help desk.
The visibility of changes made in AD are very helpfull. We had an admin that made a change in a GPO that causes some strange behaviour in our environment. Normally that would take days to find, especially because the admin was a few days out of office and couldnt tell us the change he made. But after looking into our alerts we found very fast the specific change that was made to a GPO that pointed us in the right direction to solve the problem within 30 minutes.
No more ghost accounts and password never expires in our AD, the security level is therefore much higher then it was before. And we need less manhour to maintain that.
Before ADAuditplus we had several hundred accounts with password never expires and at least 15 changes on that item every week. Since we have ADaudtiplus we have no accounts with password never expires and we only see modifications on that item sometimes when a new IT employee starts within our group. IT crew learns fast what to do and especially what NOT to do in our environment to keep things secure.
Before ADAuditPlus I wrote PowerShell scripts to create reports for management, since ADAuditplus the reports are build automatically every month and send to management.
