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8.2 Available reports
GFI EventsManager's extensive report list contains reports for various requirements designed to
facilitate reporting as much as possible. The following report categories are included in GFI
EventsManager by default. GFI EventsManager allows you to use the existing reports as templates to
create your own ones. Each category in the table below contains a number of reports that can be
used out of the box or customized to fit your requirements:
Category Description
Account Usage Use the reports in this category to identify user logon issues. The event details shown in
these reports include successful/failed user logons and locked user accounts.
Account Management Use the reports in this category to generate a graphical overview of important events
that took place across your entire network. The event details shown in these reports
include changes in user and computer accounts as well as changes in security group
policies.
Policy Changes Use the reports in this category to identify policy changes effected on your network.
Object Access Use the reports in this category to identify object access issues. The event details shown
in these reports include successful/failed object access and objects that have been
deleted.
Application Management Use the reports in this category to identify faulty applications and application
installation and removal issues. The event details shown in these reports include
applications that have been installed or removed as well as applications, which are
crashing and hanging.
Print Server Use the reports in this category to display details related to printing events. Details
provided in these reports include documents that have been printed, the users that
triggered the printing event and the date/time when the printing operation took place.
Windows Event Log System Use the reports in this category to identify audit failures and important Windows
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event
log issues. Details provided in these reports include the starting and stopping of event
log services, clear log operations as well as errors generated during event logging.
Events Trend Use the reports in this category to display statistical information related to event
generation. Charts provided enumerate the 10 computers and users with most events.
Other reports provide event counts on a network-wide basis as well as on a computer-by-
computer basis. Reports in this category can be generated for each main time – by hour,
day, week or month.
All Critical Use the reports in this category to display information related to critical Windows
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events, Syslog, Text Logs, Custom Events, SNMP Traps and SQL Server
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Audit events.
The charts provided enumerate the 10 most critical events.
Miscellaneous, Cus-
tomizable
Use the reports in this category to generate reports that offer broad customization.
These can be used to generate reports based on any Windows
®
event log, using filtering
conditions and grouping modes that are not covered by the other default reports.
PCI DSS Compliance / GCSx
Code of Connection
Requirements / SOX Compli-
ance / HIPAA Compliance /
GLBA Compliance
Use the reports in these categories to generate legal compliance regulations reports.
General and Security
Requirements
Use the reports in this category to generate various reports required by several GCSx
Code of Connection memos.
LOGbinder SP reports Use the reports in this category to generate reports related to Microsoft
®
SharePoint
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audit events.
Table 47: Available reports