No matter the scanning method, I received detailed, user-configurable reports--both text and graphic--on the gathered information. You can filter the data based on any information discovered by NetRAT, which means you can generate reports on a machine, domain, workgroup or the results of a network scan. This is not obvious at first: The initial report I generated showed all information across servers in that domain and I had to click on an individual server to drill down to data specific to it. This is a good method of reporting statistics across a domain, such as the number of disabled or locked accounts, failed logons or services running, but you have to filter the report to provide details on single devices.
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Good
Supports SNMPv1 and v2
Quick and in-depth discovery of Windows systems Bad
Windows-only for system-level accounts and registry information |
If NetRAT is reporting on the services in a domain, it shows the number of services for the entire domain and does not break out services by machine. This is an area I'd like to see improved--breaking out the report manually on a per-machine basis is time-consuming.
The product's file-security feature gave me detailed information regardless of the OS. Files on our Network Security Systems' NAS device--a FreeBSD system--curiously showed up as an NTFS, but the file permissions and ownership were correct.
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