SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

Score9.4 out of 10

40 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)?

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files.

By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it.

Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports.

Provision and deprovision users using role-specific templates to help assure conformity of access privilege delegation in alignment with security policies.

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#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

33.3%

5 installations of 15

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

13.3%

2 installations of 15

#3 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

6.7%

1 installation of 15

Yunus KÖLEOĞLU View profile

Head of Information Technologies in Information Technology at Evmann Investments Holding BV (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To be able to manage and report file server permissions. And also I would like to automate AD user account settings.

Pros

File server permissions management
File server audits and alerts

Cons

Alert types and settings are not sufficient and there are lots of bugs

Return on Investment

Helped me to report who has what permissions on file server
Helped me to audit and get alerted to massive file deletion. But the alert doesn't work as it is expected.
Helped me to audit user locks. But alert doesn't work as it is expected.

Alternatives Considered

FileAudit and ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus

Dylan Eikelenboom View profile

Security Officer in Information Technology at IXON Cloud (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Auditing a particular use is very simple and clear
You can generate automated reports for review
It is easy to set-up

Cons

The user interface is not very modern or fancy
It does not have a lot of integrations with our identify providers beside Active Directory
The reports cannot be customised alot

Return on Investment

Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves

Alternatives Considered

Duo Security and AppGate SDP

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We make use of Access Rights Manager in our organization for the provisioning of new user accounts, determining folder permissions for all our shared files/folders on our file/print server, as well as administration for our various security/distribution groups (for example listing all groups which are empty) This has made the tasks of creating new user accounts or group management so much easier, and less time-consuming.

Pros

New User Creation
Security group maintenance - eg displaying all groups which are empty.
visual representation of all security permissions set on shared files/folders on our file/print servers

Cons

The main gripe I have is the process of creating user templates. At present, You have to use a 3rd party addon to create new user account templates. It would be great to have this integrated with ARM as default.

Return on Investment

Because it's cut down on the mistakes and time lost creating new user accounts, this has meant there is a reduction in tickets relating to changes needing to be made to user accounts. Whether this was the incorrect spelling of the name, or the need to add/remove security groups. With ARM now doing the user creation along with the templates we've created, this has dramatically cut down the number of support tickets regarding user accounts, meaning our team now has more time to tend to other pending tickets.

Alternatives Considered

Device42

Other Software Used

SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM), SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are new to ARM and already have other SolarWinds products that we use. So far it has been working well for our needs. We are still trying to set up the SMTP portion to get automated AD reports via email. It has also helped immensely in helping us discover where the nested shares are in our clients' folder structure systems. One suggestion would be to offer some training during the implementation process. While the application is quite intuitive, it would add to a better implementation experience.

Pros

AD Reports
Folder permissions discovery

Cons

Implementation process

Return on Investment

Saves us time with monthly AD reports.
Allows us an effective tool to address the issue of nested shares and standardizing folder permissions.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using ARM to manage our Active Directory and File services. In addition too that we periodically need our users to reevaluate the access permissions on their resources, especially team leaders or managers. It is our main tool to make changes in the AD (all fileserver permissions are managed by security groups in the AD). One important feature is the documentation of who made what. We must make annual reports about our work and this documentation to a public institution.

Pros

Manage Active Directory Users and Groups
User creation using templates and automation
Documentation of changes

Cons

You cannot create organizational units in the AD with it.
Automation and templates need knowledge of JSON and are not intuitive.
Deleted folders cannot automatically delete from recertification as well.

Return on Investment

It made [the] administrator's daily work more comfortable.
It is now possible to document all changes we make.
It gives our users the possibility to control their resources more easily.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools and SolarWinds Dameware Remote Support (DRS)

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baramundi Management Suite, mRemoteNG, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec

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SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

What is SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)?

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Most Frequent Users

Manufacturing

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Health Care and Social Assistance

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