New freeware software from NetWrix

A couple of months ago, we published a review of our free software for change monitoring and access control. Since then, new versions of completely free software have appeared. Perhaps they can be useful to you in your work.

Under the cut, we will tell you a little about three new free NetWrix programs.

• to manage privileged accounts,
• monitoring and restarting services
• monitoring free disk space.

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1. Privileged Account Manager
NetWrix Privileged Account Manager (PAM) maintains and protects privileged accounts in Active Directory, servers, and other systems. A secure web portal is used for access and automatic maintenance of administrative accounts - management and auditing for all privileged accounts of an organization are becoming centralized.

PAM implements secure role-based access to all privileged accounts: all authorized users must “get” a password before work, and at the end of operations must “pass” it back to its system. All operations are monitored, allowing at any time to establish the real identity (employee name) of any general administrative user (for example, “Administrator” or “root”) with the provision of a full audit trail — who got access to what, when and where. In addition, at specified intervals (for example, every 90 days), PAM automatically changes the passwords of privileged accounts, synchronizing them with target systems (for example, updating passwords for services and scheduled tasks).


2. Disk Space Monitor
NetWrix Disk Space Monitor is a free tool that allows system administrators to track free space on domain controllers, file, Exchange and SharePoint servers and database servers. The program allows you to centrally track free space on specified servers and sends daily reports about free space. Also, when the critical values ​​of free space are reached, the program notifies the administrator about this by e-mail. The program allows you to track free space on an unlimited number of servers.


3. Service Monitor
NetWrix Service Monitor is a free tool for monitoring critical Windows services with an optional restart of the service after a crash. The program keeps track of all automatically started services on a group of servers and in case of a sudden failure of one or several of them sends email notifications. The restart function ensures that all control services will work without downtime. The lightweight program is easy to configure: install, enter computer names and specify the desired email address.

These are three full-featured programs that you can use for free to administer without limits and restrictions.

Also in April, we updated the program for auditing the file servers NetWrix File Server Change Reporter . The free version of the program also received an update - version 3.3 adds support for fault-tolerant servers.

And, of course, you can always find a complete list of free NetWrix products here.