The Lepide Data Security Platform is incredibly lightweight. It is a single Windows application that uses SQL to store all of its collected log data and information. There are full scalability options to support even the largest enterprise deployment.
We only use agents where absolutely necessary, mainly to remove gaps in an audit trail that are quite often found in native log sources. Depending on the data sources and systems you want to monitor will determine whether or not you require an agent. For example, for Active Directory, an agent is not required. For Windows File Servers an agent is required but this is purely because native auditing lacks critical information such as when files are copied.
No, admin credentials are not required for the Lepide Data Security Platform. Being a security platform, the solution operates on a least privilege model ensuring our service accounts only require the necessary privileges to operate optimally.
All of the pre-requisites to install and configure the solution, as well as the supported servers for auditing can be found in this guide
Our documentation center contains useful guides to help you set up and use the solution for a number of different use cases. You can access them all on this page