auditing and configuration assessment system. The system must have a single management solution for the entire enterprise. The system must be able to audit to verify network devices meet PCI standards out of the box. The auditing system must alert MIS when improper changes have been made to the network. The system is required to monitor a variety of devices on the network which include Solaris Servers, Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 servers, VMware ESX , Windows SQL server, Directory
Services (Active Directory and E-directory), Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Windows XP desktops, and Cisco IOS devices.