[THIN] Re: Tracking user logins/logouts across a farm
- From: "Jeff Durbin" <techlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:02:50 +1300
When I read the question, I immediately remembered having resolved a similar
problem via VBScript. I had needed to create a central log of
successful/unsuccessful group policy application to troubleshoot an
intermittent problem, and that required VBS (or something better than shell
script) because I needed to check a few key registry values. When I answered
the question, I only had a few spare minutes and didn't spend a lot of time
thinking about all the options. You're right though - it's overkill. I
retract my first answer. How about:
echo %date% %time% %username% %computername%>>\\server\share\logins.log
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: Friday, 20 February 2004 11:58 p.m.
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Tracking user logins/logouts across a farm
If you're going to do it via scripting, why would you even need the
complexity of something like vbscript, to just append some environment
details to a file?
I realise you have a thing for vbscript - but for everything? When a simple
append redirection to a file in a cmd script would do?
How much more complex is that in vbscript? All of a sudden, you've gotta
create filesystem objects, handles for files and txt streams - when echo
>> filename would do?
This isn't a bash against using vbscript - I write stuff in vbscript / HTA
stuff on practically a daily basis - and don't get me wrong, I know you
*could* do it via vbscript - but why would you, or recommend to, when it
clearly would be overengineered for what you're proposing?
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Durbin [mailto:techlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 February 2004 19:17
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Tracking user logins/logouts across a farm
>
> Call a VBScript during the login process for each user. Have it open a
> text file on a network share and write the date, time, username, and
> server, etc. I've done this before to log Group Policy application.
>
> Jeff Durbin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katz, Benjamin
> Sent: Friday, 20 February 2004 6:14 a.m.
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Tracking user logins/logouts across a farm
>
> Hi all -
>
> I've been using auditlog.exe to track when a user logged in/out of a
> particular server. However, what I'd like to be able to do is know
> which server a user was last logged into (or logged into at X time),
> when they report application problems. Is there an easy way to run an
> auditlog type search across an entire farm? It's cumbersome to run
> auditlog on each server.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Katz
>
> Ben Katz
> Sr. Systems Engineer, Global Data Center Baker & McKenzie
> 1 Prudential Plaza
> 130 E. Randolph Drive, Suite 2500
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