Secure FTP Server Auditing and Reporting Module

Secure FTP Server's Auditing and Reporting Module (ARM) captures all of the transactions passing through Secure FTP Server and then allows you to query the data and view reports from Secure FTP Server's Administrative console. You can analyze captured data immediately using the preconfigured reports, or custom design your own with the included report designer.

Solve problems

Secure FTP Server with ARM records the events between the server and client, then enables you to effectively search and present that information any way you want. Use it for:

• Billing – Track usage and bill your clients more accurately.
• Statistical Analysis – Establish trends, find out who your most active customers are, or when demand is the highest.
• Troubleshoot – Capture all socket, protocol, authentication, and transfer information then rapidly analyze it to pinpoint problems.
• Non-repudiation – Audit transactions throughout their lifecycle, ensuring your ability to determine if and when a particular event or transfer occurred. Prove whether something happened or not, when it happened, and who was responsible for making it happen.

It's all built right in

Secure FTP Server with ARM comes with everything you need to get started, including a 2GB database, 30 preconfigured reports, and a visual custom report designer. You can use the database for production or just for testing. If you have a SQL database you'd rather use, simply point to it instead—it's your option.

Enabling and configuring Secure FTP Server’s ARM module is as simple as switching it on and pointing it to the recording database. Secure FTP Server takes care of the rest. The visually-based report designer uses familiar Microsoft's Access-style controls that you can use to build customized reports quickly and easily.

Auditing

Secure FTP Server with ARM captures significantly more data points than standard file logging. Data is stored in real time in a relational database, which you can then query from the EFT Server Administrator, or query directly from your own reporting system.

Reporting

Query live data and pull it into a report in seconds. When a report is executed, EFT with ARM connects to the database and retrieves audited data based on the specified criteria and generates a report you can view directly in Secure FTP Server’s Administrative console. Use the preconfigured reports, or create your own reports using the visually-based report designer.

Search for a particular transaction from a specified date range. You can also select a report and then perform searches on them for even more granular analysis, filtering the results based on multiple criteria such as time, protocol, IP, file name, or bytes transferred. Secure FTP Server with ARM enables you to find out what is happening and analyze why quickly and efficiently. You can export reports in .html, .pdf, .vp, or .txt formats.

The included preconfigured reports have been carefully selected based on extensive interviews and research into the most important reporting needs. For example, we've created reports targeted especially for troubleshooting, nonrepudiation, billing, and trending.