Quest Reporter
Quest Reporter provides automated discovery and comparison of configuration-related items to support planning, securing and auditing of your Windows infrastructure.
Quest Reporter enables IT organizations to collect, compare, report on and resolve Active Directory and Windows-based configurations which is essential for change auditing, Windows security assessments, or AD pre- and post-migration analyses. Armed with this information, organizations can quickly make strategic and tactical security decisions that involve their Active Directory and Windows environment.
Extend Reporting with Configuration Baselining
With this new optional module, organizations can perform automated comparisons of Active Directory and Windows configurations against an ideal baseline. This speeds the deployment and ongoing management of servers and reduces the workload on administrators. Organizations have extensive predefined rule-based templates to perform a comparison of their environment to some of the most common enterprise configuration standards, such as Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks, Microsoft Best Practices, and fully customizable to support internal and external operational practices. There are thousands of rules shipped with the product.
Support Effective Knowledge Management and Informed Decision Making
Reporter collects, stores and reports on data from workstations, Windows servers and Active Directory. Because it gives you comprehensive, up-to-date information, Reporter helps you quickly identify and address trends and correlations.
Ensure Proactive Security, Improved Standards and Policy Compliance
Reporter inspects and reveals network occurrences, such as when unauthorized users have administrative rights, when old user accounts should have been deleted or when permissions don't comply with corporate standards. Reporter's action-enabled reporting, with its proactive approach to security, allows you to update objects directly from the Reporter user interface.
Reduce Downtime and Optimize Performance
Reporter's network configuration reports result in faster resolution for configuration-related problems and performance setbacks. Reporter provides the information you need to standardize configuration, thereby reducing the cost of administration and facilitating the use of best practices for network performance.
Reduce Costs and Decrease Administrative Workload
Reporter decreases your workload by automating data collection and report generation. To minimize network impact, it allows data collection to occur as close as possible to the data source and enables off-hour scheduling of data collections. As a result, your organization can spend less time and money managing the network and dedicate more time to network improvements.
Improve Migration Planning
By identifying all groups, domains, computers and users, and defining their relationships, Reporter allows you to design Active Directory in a way that meets the specific needs of your organization. This produces a more relevant environment and simplifies the migration project.
Quest Knowledge Portal
The Quest Knowledge Portal provides a single, unified reporting platform for a variety of Quest products, including Reporter. The Portal facilitates scheduled and ad hoc reporting, enabling complete business views into IT at both a summary and a granular level.