Planning an Audit Installation

This section describes the decisions you need to make during the planning phase of a deployment and summarizes what’s involved in deploying audit and monitoring service components and auditing-related services on the computers to be audited. It includes simplified diagrams that highlight the steps involved.

The following topics are covered:

• Deciding on the scope of the installation

• Deciding where to install the management database

• Deciding where to install collectors and audit stores

• Deciding where to install agents

• Deciding where to install consoles

• Supported SQL Server editions

• Checking SQL Server logins for auditing

• Determining storage requirements for auditing

• What’s involved in the deployment process