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fschange Alternatives

dgavic
Explorer

Does anyone know of another way to monitor folders/files in Windows other than fschange? I have played with the "monitor" stanza and WMI with very limited success. I have recently upgraded our infrastructure to Splunk 6, and with fschange being deprecated, I need to find an alternative to monitor file integrity.

Thank you in advance.

AdamRosen
New Member

STEALTHbits offers a file activity monitor and preconfigured Splunk dashboard https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3432/

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dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You could either use Window's built in auditing features or you could wrap Tim Golden's change monitoring python scripts into a modular input or scripted input.

Does this help you?

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dgavic
Explorer

Hi dart,

Thank you for the response, but the Tim Golden's python script would not work for us. We need to monitor 6000+ endpoints in the field and installing python on each endpoint isn't an option. The other link you sent me was for fschange, and I am looking for alternatives to fschange, as fschange has been deprocated in Splunk 5.0.

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