Configuration: Add a Domain

Overview 

Adding your Active Directory domain immediately enables change monitoring and data backup for continuous protection against unwanted changes.

 

Adding a managed domain

To add a managed domain:

1. Navigate to Guardian>Home and click +Add.
   
   
   
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2. Navigate to Guardian>Configuration>Managed Domains and click +Add.
   
   
   
   The Domains and partitions configuration wizard will open. 
3. On the Configure connection accounts page you can either:
   1. Provide existing account credentials to add a domain for Forest Recovery and Change Monitoring:
      
      
      
      Note: To configure a specific domain, a separate account for Cayosoft Guardian should be created with domain admin rights.
      • Forest name
      • Account name
      • Password
      • AD connector
        
   2. Create new custom connection accounts for only Change Monitoring. For more information on the permissions, see Cayosoft Guardian System Requirements.
      • Forest name
      • Account name
      • Password
        
        
        
        Note: To use gMSA, select the Create new custom connection accounts for only Change Monitoring option.
        
        
4. Click Next.
5. Enable domains and partitions which will be added to the product and click Next.
   
   
   
   
6. In case you have enabled the Create new custom connection accounts for only Change Monitoring option, enter Account name for configuring gMSA connection accounts with read-only permissions or configure gMSA connection accounts with elevated permissions, and click Next.
   
   
   
   
7. Enable Change Monitoring options. Cayosoft Guardian enables native event logging for modifications on the partition to detect who perform changes. 
   
   
   
   
8. Click Next. The Managed domains and partitions list will open.
   
   
   
   
9. Click Close. The added Managed domains will be displayed on the Managed Domains page.
   
   
   

Here you can perform the following actions:

• Refresh - refresh the page
• +Add - add a new domain
• Properties - edit the properties of the selected domain
• Check Health - check the health of the selected domain
• Export - export the list in HTML, CSV and JSON formats
• Delete - delete the selected domain

This Active Directory domain will now appear in your list of managed domains in Active Directory on-premises section on the Home tab.

Several collection jobs will be configured, like 'Default AD Backup Job'. By default, jobs are configured in continuous run mode. In case you need to run jobs at specific time, you can modify job settings under the Jobs node. Once the job completes the initial data collection, it would start to collect change records on each run. Navigate to Change Monitoring node to see what was changed in your domain.