27.3 Configuring Privileged Account Sniffer

For discovering the privileged accounts in the target system, you must configure an administrator accounts of the target system and details of the target system in the tool.

To configure the target system for account discovery, click the corresponding target system icon on the left pane and enter the required details in the fields. When configuring the Windows system, you can make use of these additional options:

  • Quick Search: Select this option to accelerate the discovery process by retrieving the nearest value for some attributes of the account.

    For example, when you select quick search, the value of last login time is retrieved from one domain controller instead of retrieving the last login time from all the domain controllers in the domain and calculating the accurate value.

  • Discover Service Accounts: Select this option if you want to discover service accounts in the configured target system.

After adding the target system details, you can view and edit the list of target systems that are added by selecting appropriate systems from the list.