The United States Department of Agriculture(USDA), Office of the Chief Financial Officer, National Finance Center (NFC), is seeking information on MARS Auditing Software Requirementsfor Novell which meet the following requirements; NetWare Directory Services (NDS) Audit - Audit NDS changes (who created the object and gave them the rights, audit trail with user name.); report on all logged events chronologically by User ID and full name; File Server Audit - Audit user’s file system access to a volume, directories and files (ability to audit user creation, deletion, modification or deletion of restricted/sensitive directories and files.);Report on all logged events chronologically by User ID and full name;NetWare Directory Services (NDS) Trustee Analysis and File Server Trustee Analysis. (Report and analyze how the user’s rights were inherited in NDS and for the file system.);User Templates Settings - review and manage multiple user templates settings at the same time;Server analysis- review and manage multiple server ( NLMs and SET parameters);User Accounts Assessments;Reports on: Dormant Accounts, Duplicate Accounts, Disabled Accounts, Accounts with concurrent connections, Accounts with no password;Intruder Detection;Objects with Excessive Rights with rights analysis; Administrator Equivalent Users - detailed report and rights analysis;Invisible objects detail;Schedule reports and ability to send via Email (GroupWise);Consolidated NDS and file system audit reports;Login Violations;Password Assessment;Reports on: Password change interval, minimum password length, password forced to change, maximum number of grace logins, password with expiration date, unique password, password not required);Password Cracking; System documentation;Automatic Archive Logs;Mechanism to automatically export audit logs to be maintained for history and audit trail purposes;Export in most of the following formats: ASCII (DOS) Text, ACII Delimited Text, WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Paradox, Excel and Word;Supports GroupWise;Supports Zenworks; Supports traditional NetWare volumes and Novell Storage Services (NSS) volumes;Reporting Tool/Graphical reports; Supports NetWare Version 6 and greater;Novell eDirectory compliant;Y2K compliant; Expandable to other platforms. i.e. Active directory, Unix/Linux, Mainframe;Supports server console monitoring and auditing; The NFC is seeking information on any and all products that function within the stated environment. This information will be used to further evaluate possibilities for the NFC to expand upon its current environment, and increase the services currently offered to its customers. At no cost to the Government, we request that any vendor that hasw a product specializing in Audit technology functioning within the defined environment provide all available information for any and all related products. It is also requested that published list prices for any or all of these products be provided. This is NOT a Request for Proposal. There will be no contract award resulting from this effort. The Government will use the information obtained from this effort to develop an analysis of alternatives report. Forward all information to Sandra Warren at the following address: Sandra Warren, Project Manager, IRMD/CRMB,USDA/OCFO/NFC, PO Box 60000, New Orleans, La. 70189 on or before August 26, 2003. Her E-mail address is
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