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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Log collector Identity

You must have the Identity integrations license pack to use this feature.

You can integrate ADAudit Plus with Sophos Central so that it sends data about security-related activity to Sophos.

This integration uses a log collector hosted on a virtual machine (VM). Together they're called an appliance. The appliance receives third-party data and sends it to the Sophos Data Lake.

This page describes integration using an appliance on ESXi or Hyper-V. If you want to integrate using an appliance on AWS, see Add integrations on AWS.

Key steps

The key steps in an integration are as follows:

  • Add an integration for this product. In this step, you create an image of your appliance.
  • Download and deploy the image on your VM. This becomes your appliance.
  • Configure ADAudit Plus to send data to the appliance.

Requirements

Appliances have system and network access requirements. To check that you meet them, see Appliance requirements.

Add an integration

To integrate ADAudit Plus with Sophos Central, do as follows:

  1. In Sophos Central, go to Threat Analysis Center > Integrations > Marketplace.

  2. Click ADAudit Plus.

    The ADAudit Plus page opens. You can add integrations here and see a list of any you've already added.

  3. In Data Ingest (Security Alerts), click Add Configuration.

    Note

    If this is the first integration you've added, we'll ask for details about your internal domains and IPs. See Provide your domain and IP details.

    Integration setup steps appears.

Configure the appliance

In Integration setup steps, you can configure a new appliance or use an existing one.

We assume here that you configure a new appliance. To do this, create an image as follows:

  1. Add a name and description for the new integration.
  2. Click Create new appliance.
  3. Enter a name and description for the appliance.
  4. Select the virtual platform. Currently we support VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V 6.0.6001.18016 (Windows Server 2016) or later.

  5. Specify the IP settings for the Internet-facing network ports. This sets up the management interface for the appliance.

    • Select DHCP to assign the IP address automatically.

      Note

      If you select DHCP, you must reserve the IP address.

    • Select Manual to specify network settings.

  6. Select the Syslog IP version and enter the Syslog IP address.

    You'll need this syslog IP address later, when you configure ADAudit Plus to send data to your appliance.

  7. Select a Protocol.

    You must use the same protocol when you configure ADAudit Plus to send data to your appliance.

  8. Click Save.

    We create the integration and it appears in your list.

    In the integration details, you can see the port number for the appliance. You'll need this later when you configure ADAudit Plus to send data to it.

    It might take a few minutes for the appliance image to be ready.

Deploy the appliance

Restriction

If you're using ESXi, the OVA file is verified with Sophos Central, so it can only be used once. If you have to deploy another VM, you must create an OVA file again in Sophos Central.

Use the image to deploy the appliance as follows:

  1. In the list of integrations, in Actions, click the download action for your platform, for example Download OVA for ESXi.
  2. When the image download finishes, deploy it on your VM. See Deploy appliances.

Configure ADAudit Plus

Now configure ADAudit Plus to send audit data to your appliance.

Note

You can configure multiple instances of ADAudit Plus to send data to Sophos via the same appliance. After you finish integration, repeat the steps in this section for your other instances of ADAudit Plus. You don't need to repeat the steps in Sophos Central.

To do this, do as follows:

  1. In the main window, click on the Admin tab.
  2. Select SIEM Integration.
  3. Select Enable forwarding of ADAudit Plus Data.
  4. Choose ArcSight.
  5. Enter the name of your appliance in ArcSight/CEF Server name.
  6. Choose TCP as your preferred protocol.

  7. Enter the port number of your appliance.

    You must enter the same port and protocol settings you entered in Sophos Central when you added the integration.

  8. Save the configuration and choose the categories to forward.

For more information, see SIEM Integration.