Audit Tool for Google Apps

Features

Easily manage the resources of the users on your domain

Gives full insight into user activity on your domain

Remotely monitor user activity

Audit Tool for Google Apps is a powerful and easy-to-use centralized admin tool that allows you to gain visibility to Google Apps resources (Docs, Sites) in your domain

This tool helps you better manage what is going on in your domain by giving you a 360 degree view of your user's activities. Audit Tool for Google Apps is an administration console to help monitor your Google Apps environment. This tool allows you to:

See what resources your users own (public and private)
See what resources your users have shared outside your domain
Monitor your Google Apps domain environment

Audit Tool for Google Apps comes in one version:

	Per user license allows you to peer into the resources of the licensed users in your domain.

Before you purchase the application, please be sure you reviewed and understood the following requirements:

Application is fully compatible with Google Apps for Business domains. Please inquire about Education, Non-Profit and Government editions.
You must have Provisioning API and OpenID enabled in your domain.
Only Google Apps domain administrators will be able to purchase and use this application.

Purchasing

How to purchase the application:

Purchase application from the Google Apps Marketplace
App Tuesday launch promotion: FREE for 30 Days!

In order to purchase the application, please visit Google Apps Marketplace and click on the Add it now button

Using the tool

To use the Audit Tool for Google Apps, simply install the tool for your domain and it will automatically activate for all of your users.

Purchase the application from the Google Apps Marketplace
Add the application from Marketplace to your domain
Complete steps 1 (agree to ToS) and 2 (grant read-only access)
Enable application in the Google Apps control panel (only admins can access this application)
This will enable the application for your domain and makes it visible to all your users in Google universal navigation bar (non-administrators will receive a message stating that they do not have the right to access this application)
Admin console should begin to grant you visibility into what resources your users own, share and work on.
Go back to your control panel, access Audit Tool, and click on Disable Audit Tool (remove from navigation bar) or Delete Audit Tool (uninstall the application).

FAQ

What resources will the Audit Tool for Google Apps allow you to see?
How secure is your application?
Audit Tool is visible in Google universal bar to all of my users? Can any user in the domain use it?
How do I remove the application from my domain?
Enabling Provisioning API and OpenID
Why do I get the message "Application has not been enabled for your domain"?
Why do I get the message "Domain cannot use API" when I attempt to use the application?

What resources will the Audit Tool for Google Apps allow you to see?

Private and public Google Docs (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms) and Google Sites that your users own, are shared on and have worked on.

How secure is your application?

The Audit Tool for Google Apps was built on the Google App Engine. This choice allowed us to offer the application to our customers at the very affordable price and make it truly cloud-based.

To access the application over SSL connection, simply use https://audit-tool.appspot.com.

Audit Tool is visible in Google universal bar to all of my users? Can any user in the domain use it?

No, only administrators of your domain can use the application. If a regular user tries to log into the app, an error message will be displayed letting them know that they do not have enough rights to access the application. In the future release, we hope to make the Audit Tool available in Google universal bar to the administrators only.

How do I remove the application from my domain?
If you want to keep the app installed in your domain, but would like to remove access to it, you can click on Disable Audit Tool. Your license will remain active, so when you are ready to use the application again, simply click on Enable Audit Tool to enable the application.

If you want to uninstall the application from your domain, click on Delete Audit Tool.

These options are found in the Google Apps Dashboard > Audit Tool

Enabling Provisioning API and OpenID

First, make sure you are using Google Apps for Business domain (please inquire about other editions).
To enable Provisioning API:
In the Google Apps Control Panel > Users and groups tab > Settings link > Enable provisioning API section, select the check box for Enable provisioning API.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
Note: When you set this option, you see the following warning in the Dashboard tab of the Control Panel:
"API Access is enabled. Any updates you make via this control panel will not transfer to your user management system."
Click the Learn more link for additional information.
To enable OpenID:
Access http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/<your-domain>/SetupIdp
Check "Allow users to sign in to third party websites using OpenID" and click Save changes.
Why do I get the message "Application has not been enabled for your domain"?
This message means that application has been disabled in Google Apps control panel. If you are an administrator, login to the control panel, click on Audit Tool > Enable Audit Tool.

Why do I get the message "Domain cannot use API" when I attempt to use the application?
This message means that Provisioning API is disabled in your Google Apps domain. See instructions above on how to enable it.