Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) 6.1

Admin Report Kit for Active Directory (ARKAD) 6.1 brings users a useful reporting solution for the Microsoft Active Directory Enterprise. ARKAD collects and reports configuration information about various objects and their properties in the Active Directory. The reports are presented in a variety of formats that are simple, elegant and highly customizable for System Administrators, IT infrastructure Managers and Systems Audit personnel to use and act on.

ARKAD's basket of Built-in reports provide powerful, ready-to-use reports that assist in both Management reporting and Compliance reporting requirements such as SOX and HIPPA. ARKAD has been architected using the latest Microsoft .NET technology, bringing you the best-in-breed reporting solution for Active Directory.

Benefits:

• No agent installation. Information is collected, processed and displayed, all on the same machine where ARKAD is installed.
• Filter unwanted fields and select the desired fields to view.
• Perform simple wildcard-based string search and filter to get a smaller subset of information.
• Apply advanced powerful conditional queries to get specific subsets of information.
• Apply Built-in Filters that allow users to quickly select and generate reports. These predefined Filters are based on some of the common tasks in Systems management reporting
• Sort on the various fields of information.
• Prepare and Print tabular management Reports. Users will be able to precisely define, view, print and present reports about the Microsoft Active Directory.
• Customize reports for display and print.
• View information about different Active Directory Domains in their own display windows with objects displayed in an Explorer-style view. Objects are arranged in a hierarchy for each Active Directory domain in the enterprise.
• Organize information about each object and its various properties into separate Tab Views. Information in each Tab view is organized in the same way as they are organized within the Active Directory.

Major Features:

1. Custom Reports: Create your own reports with custom selected fields and report criteria.
2. Built-in Reports: Provides several reports to retrieve useful, frequently accessed information across Active Directory.
3. Find, Filter and Customize data: Powerful Filter and Customize options to track and report only the desired information across different objects and their properties.
   • Quick Filter – Allows you to quickly filter data based on search strings and dates. Wildcard characters may be applied. For example, all rows of data pertaining to “Administrators” may be filtered by a simple string filter “*admin*” across all fields or a single field. A simple string filter using “Full Control” as the search string will display all objects having “Full Control” permission.
   • Advanced Filter – Allows the user to select columns to display, perform advanced query based filtering using Field names and their values and Save the filter configuration for future use. Selecting and applying a saved filter will apply the filter and directly produce the desired subset of data.
   • Find – A simple string-based Find operation highlights all cells containing the string. Especially useful in determining string occurrences and their frequencies with respect to the entire displayed set of data. For example, highlight all users having “Full Control” permission in the displayed list of users and their permissions.
4. Insight tools: Reports the Summary and Detailed information based on "frequency of occurrence (Counts)".
5. Export Reports using the Power Export Wizard: Flexible Export feature to export reports from ARKAD to MS-Access database / XML / HTML / Comma Separated Values (CSV) file format. Data Exportable into MS-Access database for archival purposes. Reports may be scheduled for export at different intervals of time – daily, monthly, weekly etc.
6. Preview and Print Report: Flexible print preview and print options to print the reports from ARKAD to any local / network printer.

 Enhancements:

• May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Requirements:

• For the computer running ARKAD
• • Hardware: Intel Pentium III or higher processor,  128MB of RAM, 15 MB disk
  • Operating System: Windows 2003 (SP2) / Windows XP (SP 2.0) / Windows 2000 (SP 4.0) with .NET Framework 2.0 or higher with the latest service packs.
  • Software: MDAC v2.5/2.6/2.8.
• For the computers reported by ARKAD
• • Windows 2008 / Windows 2003 (SP2) /  Windows 2000 running Active Directory.