How to find out which machine a student logged onto, & when

[kevinmcaleer]

What the script does is tell you how many 'sessions' are connected the server, and the details of those sessions. If someone has their home directory/folder connected to the server, they will maintain a session on the server. if they have many files open, it sometimes lists as multiple sessions, the computer also has a session open just before it logs the user on, so you see them to. the point is, you can see who was logged on and when, there may be some extranious stuff to, but you just ignore that. I made my scripts more elegant by running them through another program i wrote in pascal to get rid of duplicates and beautify it some what.

 

-Kev

[MkII]

It doesn't seem to report the sessions tho' - just a few at a time. I'll experiment next week [well, Monday] and send you some info - if you don't mind of course!

[sahmeepee]

We use a small script which runs as part of the login script which sends the username and computer name to a sql database (which logs the server time of the INSERT as well). Our database is SQL Server, but you could use anything.

 

The data has been collected for about 8 months now and it's not caused any problems - it's fast, reliable and puts no strain on the server. We have a set of ASP pages (again, you could use PHP or whatever) which let us do a range of queries on user/room/PC/time and some more advanced stuff for detecting concurrent logins. I've also used it to analyse which times of day most logins occur, where, by whom etc.

[Nick_Parker]

We use a small script which runs as part of the login script which sends the username and computer name to a sql database (which logs the server time of the INSERT as well). Our database is SQL Server, but you could use anything.

 

The data has been collected for about 8 months now and it's not caused any problems - it's fast, reliable and puts no strain on the server. We have a set of ASP pages (again, you could use PHP or whatever) which let us do a range of queries on user/room/PC/time and some more advanced stuff for detecting concurrent logins. I've also used it to analyse which times of day most logins occur, where, by whom etc.

 

Is there anychance you could share your script and/or asp pages please?

I'm looking for something to do a similar job and don't have the time (or the knowledge of ASP) to write my own at the moment

[rasqual]

Heh.

 

Any news in this thread? It's surprising how few "canned" solutions -- scripted, inexpensive -- exist.

[Steve21]

Heh.

 

Any news in this thread? It's surprising how few "canned" solutions -- scripted, inexpensive -- exist.

 

You know this thread is from 2005? What is it you're looking for, same as OP?

 

Steve

[rasqual]

OP and LP both. ;-)

 

Yep. Just following really good board protocol and finding existing threads that are pertinent to my interest, rather than starting new threads. ;-D

[bwestlake]

impero is a good piece of software, with many features, one of which is veiwing student machine and you can also veiw the logs to see when, where and what they have been on (machines, software, websites, ect)