
Learn to provision, manage, and audit user access rights across systems, data, and files, visualize who has access and when, and generate customized reports to demonstrate regulatory compliance.
Manage and audit user access rights across systems and data with SolarWinds access rights manager, visualizing who has access and when they accessed it for GDPR compliance.
Install and configure SolarWinds ARM in advanced mode, setting up SQL Server, domain controllers, and test labs to validate connections and reports.
Configure arm after installation using the accessories manager to scan domain controllers and file servers, set daily or on-demand schedules, and verify credentials, permissions, and collector data.
Discover how to configure and run an on-premises SharePoint scan with ARM, authenticate with admin credentials, and identify who has access to documents and site pages.
Activate and configure log data from Active Directory and file server to monitor security-relevant activities, creating transparent, traceable access-right histories and configurable reports for auditing.
Demonstrates configuring an ARM file server collector for a Windows file server using a custom installation, enabling monitoring of file events and permissions with notifications.
Monitor user access on a second domain by installing a collector on a member server and forwarding data to the arm server, noting domain controller considerations and DNS/IP configuration.
Manage user access in the ARM console by assigning roles like administrator, data owner, auditor, and requestor. Adjust rights to customize access, including modify rights and web requests.
Explore configuring the Arm server web client, user management, and email notifications via SMTP, then set retention, archive paths, and health checks to support transparency and alerts.
Create new users and groups from the main console in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, assign to domains and groups, generate passwords, and set activation and expiration dates.
Analyze who has access to which resources across file servers, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL, and other services; generate and customize a report, export it, schedule it, and email it to stakeholders.
Learn to modify permissions for users and groups in the access rights manager, configuring file servers and SharePoint, and applying changes with scheduling, simulation, and domain-wide considerations.
Demonstrates using the access right manager to modify user attributes, reset passwords, schedule deactivation, manage permissions, and generate access reports.
Learn to create directories in SolarWinds Access Right Manager, assign and restrict access, and break or enforce inheritance to control user permissions across top secret and subfolders.
Learn to perform multiselection in ARM to quickly remove computers, users, contacts, and groups by selecting multiple items, right-clicking delete, and applying immediate removal to revoke access.
Create alerts for users and folders by activating collectors for Active Directory and file servers; monitor password resets as critical events and receive email notifications.
Arm dashboard for security monitoring and licensing, noting SharePoint online logs, total users, disabled accounts, administrators, and potential group recursion risks.
Explore the ARM logbook to track events like password resets, attribute and permissions changes, and membership updates, filter by date ranges, generate and schedule reports, and configure workflows with approvers.
Perform a quick health check of the SolarWinds arm by reviewing server health and database free space. Then verify templates loaded, reports, and connector status to aid troubleshooting.
Learn to configure data owners in the ARM Access Right Manager to grant folder access via requester rights, recertification, and customizable workflows.
Navigate the ARM WebConsole to manage domains, resources, and users, configure profiles and recertification, and design approval workflows for access requests.
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security administrators in quickly and easily provisioning, deprovisioning, managing, and auditing user access rights to systems, data, and files, so they can help protect their organizations from the potential risks of data loss and breaches. By analyzing user authorizations and access permissions, you get visualization of who has access to what, and when they accessed it. With just a few clicks, customized reports can be generated to help demonstrate compliance with many regulatory requirements. Provision and deprovision users via role-specific templates to help assure conformity of access privilege delegation, in alignment with security policies.
• Easily analyze user access rights across your IT infrastructure.
• Rapidly identify and reduce the risk of unauthorized system access and data breaches.
• Quickly demonstrate compliance with reports created on demand or scheduled for automated delivery.
• Identify and manage risks through the detection of malicious or accidental access attempts and compromised accounts.
• Easily create user accounts and review user permissions, groups, and access across all systems, data, and files.
• Support timely and complete deprovisioning of user access.
• Reduce IT workload and save time by delegating permission management to data owners.
Compliance requirements driven by GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, and other mandates require detailed user access monitoring, particularly for users who have access to critical and sensitive data. SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to deliver customized Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD reports—showing who has access to what, and when they accessed this data.