what software we should buy to manage IT professional activity?

[qi guo]

We are a industrial plant. We have some IT infrastructure in a server room etc. We have Cisco router, switch and firewall; Windows Active Directory; VMware; Storage network etc.Now and then, IT consultants come to do some jobs. Sometime, they just mess up our configuration and  is not  responsible.

Do we can install some software to do user authentication and activity tracking? So that:

1, For user management, especially authentication.

2, tracking/logging their activity in Cisco network devices, VMware, Windows servers

Thanks

[Francesco Molino]

Hi

To audit what commands or change configuration have been done by users you can use tacacs and/or radius for devices not supporting tacacs.

On VMware you can authenticate users using this method and track the audit log on esxi.

In terms of products, you can deploy Cisco ise that do both or go with open source softwares like freeradius or freetacacs. 

The advantage with tacacs is that you can give authorizations on per command basis.

[qi guo]

Thanks. Wish a better solution that we can have all logging in one software.

[Francesco Molino]

With Cisco ise you'll get all in a web portal while open source are Linux based then more cli. There are some web application supporting these open source servers like freetacacs