Monitoring Network Logins

Submitted by Daniel Starnes on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 4:30pm.

   The recent survey about computer labs got me to thinking.  I would like to be able to keep track of how many students are using the lab each day, and how long they are logged on.  I would think it would be fairly simple to track when someone logged on, when they logged off, and what computer they were on.  Does anyone know of software that will do this on a Windows 2003 server?

Daniel Starnes
Student Computer Lab &
Network Technician
California Western School of Law

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Submitted by Daniel Starnes on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 9:36am.

What do you use to automate the process?  How do you get the data from all the logs together into one file where you can mine the data?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Matthew Perna" <MPerna@tourolaw.edu>
Sent 5/1/2008 5:43:32 AM
To: "Teknoids" <teknoids@ruckus.law.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Monitoring Network Logins

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Dan you can use Group policies to set the audit option on those computers. Then by reviewing the Security logs in event viewer you will be able to see when users log on and log off. You can export the log file as a csv and manipulate it in Excel to get the data you need.
 
Good luck! Hope this helps.
 

Matthew Perna
Network Administrator
Touro Law Center
225 East View Drive
Central Islip NY  11722
 
Email: Mperna@tourolaw.edu
Phone: 631-761-7072
Cell:     631-708-6418
 
Support: IT@tourolaw.edu
Phone: 631-761-7070

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Starnes, Daniel
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:29 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] Monitoring Network Logins

 
   The recent survey about computer labs got me to thinking.  I would like to be able to keep track of how many students are using the lab each day, and how long they are logged on.  I would think it would be fairly simple to track when someone logged on, when they logged off, and what computer they were on.  Does anyone know of software that will do this on a Windows 2003 server?
Daniel Starnes
Student Computer Lab &
Network Technician
California Western School of Law

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