Group Policy

Complete the following fields:

Option Description

Monitor this data source and collect activity data

Enable monitoring of the selected data source and configure Netwrix Auditor to collect and store audit data.

Prerequisites

Netwrix Auditor will automatically look up additional system components and prompt you to install those that are missing. In case all required components have been already installed, this section will be omitted. See Other Components for more information.

Detect additional details

Specify additional information to include in reports and activity summaries. Select Group membershipif you want to include Group membership of the account under which the change was made.

Specify data collection method

You can enable network traffic compression. If enabled, a Compression Service will be automatically launched on the audited computer, collecting and prefiltering data. This significantly improves data transfer and minimizes the impact on the target computer performance.

Configure audit settings

You can adjust audit settings automatically. Your current audit settings will be checked on each data collection and adjusted if necessary.

NOTE: This method is recommended for evaluation purposes in test environments. If any conflicts are detected with your current audit settings, automatic audit configuration will not be performed.

Do not select the checkbox if you want to configure audit settings manually. For a full list of audit settings required to collect comprehensive audit data and instructions on how to configure them, refer to Configure IT Infrastructure for Auditing and Monitoring.

Review your data source settings and click Add to go back to your plan. The newly created data source will appear in the Data source list. As a next step, click Add item to specify an object for monitoring. See Add Items for Monitoring for more information.